Chubby Jones

The talents of one Mr. Ryan Gosling seem to go far beyond acting. Actually, I hate to admit this since I am not usually one to gravitate towards such movies, but I watched The Notebook over the break (along with 27 Dresses and I'm not proud of it) and liked it more than I thought I would. Hell, I even cried a little. Anywho, Ryan's got a musical side project called Dead Man's Bones. I've only heard one song but I have to say I like it a lot. It's a live collaboration with a children's choir, which provides a gleeful accompaniment to Gosling's eerie vocals. There's one kid in the choir who I'm convinced is only in there due to nepotism. He's gotta go, but the others all sound pretty good. You won't have to strain to hear which kid I am referring to.

Here's the video of the band performing with the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir:

Download the In The Room Where You Sleep from Dead Man's Bones and the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir.

What do you think? Should Gosling keep making music or should he stick to acting and being Rachel McAdam's on-again off-again boyfriend?

Videogum celebrates(?) the Worst People of 2008. There are plenty of other people I'd like to add to their list. In no particular order:

- Dane Cook
- Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
- Perez Hilton
- Spencer Pratt/Heidi Montag/MTV for putting them everywhere
- Tila Tequila/MTV for putting her everywhere/Myspace for making her famous
- Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus

Britney Spears gets some holiday cheer from Lindsay Lohan. She also reveals that her father Michael Lohan gave her a bastard sibling for Christmas. That's what I'm telling my family to get me next year.

Courtney Cox says the secret to a successful marriage is to take out the possibility for divorce. That seems kind of sad to me. Sure, counseling is great, but if you're not a happy camper (which is how I feel anyone would be married to David Arquette) why stick with it.

One of my favorite podcasts, NPR's Sound Opinions, has a wicked mix tape of holiday songs available for FREE download.

Unfortunately for me, my favorite Monifah song Touch It isn't able to be embedded, but that doesn't mean you can't listen to it. I seriously had a bad obsession with this jam back in college. There was one time I was driving back from the airport with a friend of mine and we were in bumper to bumper traffic - we blasted this on repeat and I did the lambada with the dashboard to the delight and fright of the cars around us. Good story. Moving on...

Jennifer Aniston confirms what the entire world (but especially Brad Pitt) knew, her GQ cover was photoshopped. I mean, is this newsworthy? It doesn't even resemble her face - in fact, it looks worse than her face.

If you really care what the Jonas Brothers' Favorite Ornaments are, then please stop reading my blog. You and I have nothing in common except maybe our love of sushi and miniature Twix bars.

Since all of my usual programming is on hiatus for the holidays I had to do a lot of channel changing last night - until I landed on the Lifetime channel. Usually I only end up on this channel when I miss Meredith Baxter Birney or Tracy Gold. Last night though, I was lucky enough to happen upon "A Diva's Christmas Carol" starring Vanessa Williams as Ebony Scrooge. It was the stuff dreams are made of. The DVR is already set to record it the next time it's on (probably tonight) - so do yourself a favor and make sure you see this delightful new twist on an old holiday favorite.