And Just For the Hell of It: Black Sabbath, 1970 []

From the ancient, nameless, Lovecraft days of cyclopian monoliths and Other Gods, here is Black Sabbath performing "Iron man" 38 years ago. Why? Coz summer weekends must rock! That's why!

[via Cynical-c]

OMG! Naughty Pics of Pretty Asian Cyclon! [Gallery]

Yay! Battlestar Galactica's Pretty Asian Cyclon (AKA Grace Park) has provided us with a wonderful shiny cheesecake photo shoot! How lovely! But where the hell is Blonde Tomboy Space Girl's layout?! Huh?? More and more photos after the jump.

[Complex via OhNoTheyDidn't]

William Shatner's "Common People:" The Kirk/Spock Slashfic Music Video [Things We Actually Like]

Shatner's cover of the Pulp hit "Common People," set to scenes from the animated Star Trek series. As is required in all Star Trek parodies and mashups, Kirk and Spock are gay for each other.

The Week We Climbed Too Close to the Sun [Week In Review]

• America's cool uncle is the next president, unless the one who wants to burn babies wins. Here is a chart about that lady who was running.
• Oh, and that lady's husband? He had a rough week. Because he runs with a rough crowd. These are the sort of people we are trying to warn you about, readers!
• We were full of warnings this week! Here is what not to do when you are famous and do drugs. For a better example of damage control, look to that girl from The Bad News Bears.
• First, French Spiderman did it. Then, Brooklyn Malaria Guy. He was less popular. But we all learned an important lesson, about being yourself, and also architecture.
• Some newspapers were amazed that a black man is not roundly despised. Though obviously Barack Obama is no Spike Lee.
• Some people are over.
• How to steal. Always good to know.
• This is the dead land
  This is cactus land
  Here the stone images
  Are raised, here they receive
  The supplication of a dead man’s hand
  Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Jakob Lodwick, Model [Crossovers]

Vimeo's Jakob Lodwick, the ex-man of both Star talking head Julia Allison and her BFF Mary's little sister, 18-year-old soap star Leven Rambin, is in Esquire this month. He's finally fulfilled his dream of becoming a model! (They featured boys of the web, who got to keep their clothes on.) Click to enlarge. [via AlleyInsider]

Make The Happiest Playlist In The World [Friday Mixtape]

Last Friday Gawker readers put together the saddest playlist in the world (which you can still hear here). This weekend, add your happiest songs to the happiest playlist ever. Instructions below.

URL: http://muxtape.com/upload
Name: gawkers
Password: gawked

I've primed it with two of my happiest songs, the Polyphonic Spree's "Light & Day" and Apples in Stereo's "Energy."

Of course you can write your own dream playlist below, but I really want to hear stories — has anyone ever been really embarrassed by their happy playlist, or deleted a song after listening closer and realizing it was sad? Personally, I have plenty of bittersweet songs in my "happy" list.

Xgau in Interest Conflict Conflag [Full Disclosure]

This week's award for most amusing disclosure goes to former Village Voice music critic and section editor (and DEAN OF AMERICAN ROCK CRITICS) Robert Christgau, reviewing a novel by former Ed Park. "I VOLUNTEERED TO REVIEW THIS novel by my former Village Voice co-worker Ed Park because I assumed the conflicts of interest would be so blatant they’d implode—a roman à clef, in which I myself might play a minor role, about the alt-weekly where I got fired the same day young Ed did." Sadly, everything is very fictionalized. Doesn't Ed get the point of these books? Score-settling, not literature! [NYO]

The Cinema [Posting After Five On A Friday]

This film looks interesting.

"Blimey, Good Thing I 'Ad Me Enormous Novelty Camera." [Open Caption]

[Singer Lily Allen in London yesterday; image via Splash]

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