Some time ago, Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester embarked on something of a spiritual journey through pop music. Her traipse down the worn actress-turned-singer path turned up a few gems, including a cover of “Bette Davis Eyes”, this other cover originally by this band, and a curious little electro-pop romp titled “Good Girls Go Bad,” where she shares singing credits with Cobra Starship—but not until about 1:31 into the song. Just yesterday, the video surfaced onto the web. It features such Gossip Girl-ish things as salacious texts, drinking from flasks, some blokes in white-framed spectacles (I think they’re the Starship), subterranean bacchanalia, and of course Queen B casting her signature ice queen glare now and again. Video after the jump.

Even when not stalking Robert Pattinson or being Ryan Adams, our trusty interns remain vigilant. Early this morning, we received a tip that went straight to the BlackBook Red Phone: the cast of Gossip Girl was shooting on location at Japonais, two blocks from our office. I quickly dispatched our elite squad of hardworking, perpetually awesome BlackBook interns on a mission: locate the cast of Gossip Girl. Document them with your high-tech image capture devices. Extend a copy of our tangible paper product visible in the frame. Finally, exfiltrate from the hot zone and return safely to HQ. Did they succeed?

Because moviemakers the world over have mauled, mutilated, and basically wrung every last drop of integrity from Jane Austen’s repertoire dry, it’s nice to see them turning their beady eyes on another classic novelstress, and preying on her life’s work for sustenance instead. And in such a survey, it’s natural for one’s gaze to turn to the Brontë sisters. More specifically, to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. A filmic adaptation of the novel has cast, of all people, Gossip Girl’s Chuck Bass, as its lead.

● Mischa Barton side career as a headband designer has launched; the craft headbands go for $50-$200. [luxist]
● Paris Hilton reveals that her worst day was not in jail, or when her sex tape was released, but rather when she lost her Chihuahua Tinkerbell. [entertainment.sg]
● Has Angelina Jolie gone back to the dark side? Crew on the set of her new film fear she’s harming herself, not eating, and crying every day in her trailer. [showbizspy]

● Years after breaking up, Lance Armstrong reveals that it was indeed Sheryl Crow’s ticking biological clock that lead to their split. [P6]
● Lindsay Lohan channels Bettie Page for her Marilyn Monroe-esque Spanish Vogue shoot. [JustJared]
● Head-butting a famous fashion designer does have its consequences; Kiefer Sutherland turned himself in to the NYPD yesterday, but only received a desk appearance ticket for the third-degree assault. [TMZ]

SPOTTED: Jenny Humphrey/Little J/Dan’s sister (Taylor Momsen) of Gossip Girl fame, kicking ass, taking names, and generally rocking out at The Annex last night. Momsen’s band is called The Pretty Reckless; they’re going on tour with The Veronicas in June. And according to former Huffington Post writer Rachel Sklar, they were pretty decent. Video after the jump.

Every designer needs a muse, as this year’s Costume Gala and related Met Museum exhibition “Model as Muse” shows. And for Anna Sui, that inspiration comes from the four female leads on none other than CW cult hit Gossip Girl—at least for her upcoming capsule collection for Target’s Go International series. “When I was in Asia last year, all the young girls kept asking me about the different locations in New York City where the characters from ‘Gossip Girl’ live,” Sui told Women’s Wear Daily of her fictional muses. Sui’s Target collection (her first for the mega retailer, though not her premiere diffusion line) is slated to hit 250 of Target’s US outposts September 13, where it will line racks until October 17.

One should never turn down an open bar for a good cause. On Friday, fixtures on the New York social scene turned out to the Chelsea Art Museum to celebrate Spring for a Cure, a philanthropic event benefiting the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation. Gossip Girl cast members Connor Paolo and Yin Chang fraternized with host and Real Housewife of New York City Bethenny Frankel and cancer survivor Joey Smith (who delivered a moving speech about his battle with the disease). We didn’t only talk to attendees with their own TV shows, but check out conversations with Bethenny and Yin after the jump.

At Williamsburg’s Zebulon last night, I enjoyed a Rolling Rock in the cheery company of Awesome New Republic and was told to add Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me to my summer reading list. At some point, Brian Robertson, the reticent half of ANR, meekly said, “I have a fear of oranges.” Michael Hancock, his chattier compliment, on the other hand, offered me a little chorizo and explained, “I’m like the monkey of the band and [Brian]’s the super-producer, the magician.” He also owned up to the fact that before their single “Birthday,” emerged on Perez Hilton with Gossip Girl’s own Queen B on vocals, he had no idea who Leighton Meester was.

● Lindsay Lohan is in “hell.” She’s broke and alone thanks to her meal ticket Sam Ronson dumping her. What is Lohan to do? Run to Us Weekly and tell them all about it, of course. She tells the mag that life has become a version of Mean Girls. [US]
● Michael Caine is looking forward to a third installment of Batman—that is, if the 76-year-old makes it that long. [ComicBook]
● No Doubt’s cover of Adam Ant’s “Stand and Deliver” has leaked, and their interpretation is ... interesting. They are set to perform the track on the Gossip Girl finale as a bridge to the GG 80s spin-off show. [Youtube]