February 2013

Jon Bon has the band back together and they're gigging at small rooms, like the local burlesque club and the photogenic-ly grimy boxing gym. You know, typical Bon Jovi venues.

Even if this is billed as Chris "McLovin" Mintz-Plasse playing against type — he wields a baseball bat and there will be blood — it's just another role that has CMP as a dweeb trying to get the girl.

If you've come to believe that most UMG rap/pop videos over the past few years were part of a stealth campaign to sell Beats By Dre headphones, well, duh.

Gizmodo has a fantastic article about how the cable/audio manufacter Monster came together with Beats By Dre to make lots of headphones and lots of money, only to then get left in the dust to an awful business deal. 

Worth reading and posting here for a few key reasons:

"Stubborn Love" plays like a pre-teen version of "Everybody Hurts," as a young girl sees that love, hurt, and simple transcendence are all around, and if you;ll allow me to get as poetic as the video, as temporary as the condensation on a car window.