Secret To Björk's New Video: 'Shrooms [Bjork]

For her new music video, Wanderlust, Icelandic pixie queen Björk handed creative control over to two dudes in San Francisco, Isiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch who went into "ritual artistic psychosis mode" to envision the video, which of course involved getting high on psychadelic mushrooms. Not that there's any doubt about that when you watch the thing. Here's a recent YouTube comment: "the song awesome, but the video made me have a shroom flashback!" The Times discovered the 'shroomy secret behind the video while making its own "behind the scenes" video; in the excerpt after the jump you can even see the paper's reporter diligently double-check the drug use.

Times: Bjork in 3-D: The 'Wanderlust' Video
YouTube: Full Wanderlust video

Limecat Wintour Not Interested In Details Of Ur Incompetence [This Thing Looks Like That Thing]

No cheezburgers fer U, fatteh. [Ryder Ripps]

Woody Allen Wants Nothing To Do With Pervy American Apparel [Dov Charney]

Woody Allen sued Dov Charney's clothing company American Apparel for $10 million for using without permission an image of Allen dressed as a rabbi on billboards in New York and Los Angeles. Clearly, movie director Allen does not want to be associated with chronic inappropriate masturbator and accused sex harasser (and fellow Jew) Charney. Because then, you know, people might think Allen had weird sexual issues. (Click thumb for larger image of the billboard.) [Bloomberg]

Too Few Gore Ads? [Al Gore]

"I think the global warming project media budget should be 10 times as high... Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi spend over a billion dollars each year to promote brand preference for soft drinks. In this light, the $100 million per year to change our lifestyles seems pretty small." [Times]

Jules Dassin, Hounded Out Of Country By McCarthy [And Now He's Dead]

Jules Dassin, hot film noir director of the 1940s blacklisted by Sen. Joe McCarthy, died in Athens Monday. He was 96. Dassin made his mark with films like "Brute Force" and "Naked City" before the onetime communist decamped for Europe amid McCarthy's witch hunt, hopping from Britain to France to Greece. He was nominated for a 1960 Best Director Oscar for "Never on Sunday" and was awarded a Golden Palm at Cannes in 1978 for "A Dream of Passion." Born to Russian Jewish emigrants, he grew up largely in New York. His son Joe Dassin recorded the French hit song "Les Champs-Élysées," among others, before passing away in 1980. [AFP, Variety]

This Is How We Market Apartments Now [Too Soon?]

Prewar building. Stainless-steel appliances. All-night pharmacy around the corner. Service staff have Mary-Kate Olsen's phone number memorized. Get all the details on this apartment, which all but reeks of celebrity death, in the glorious Craigslist ad after the jump.

[Craigslist]

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