Blech! While it’s great to be back in the Big Apple, I’m totally not feeling all the miserable humidity they got goin’ on around here. Growing up in Michigan, I’m well used to dealing with uncomfortably muggy weather but my years in SoCal have erased all those horrible memories from my brain … and now I remember why. Fortunately, David likes to keep his apartment chilled to a nice 14 degree temperature so even tho I’m not all that thrilled to be wearing a hoodie in June, I prefer the cold AC to the gross humidity.

Anyways, yesterday’s flight from LA to NYC was pretty uneventful … tho I did find myself seated next to Alex Blagg, editor of the Best Week Ever blog, which was a nice surprise. I’m a fan of his work so it was nice meeting him. I spent the entire flight reading an advance copy of Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy by Savannah Knoop. I’m still processing the book … as a fan of “JT LeRoy’s” work I was very interested to read this book and will write up a proper review soon. Overall, I liked the book and will have much to say about it.

I believe tonight David and I are going to his friend Shane’s new show … and I think that is all that is on the agenda. Hope things are well in your neck of the woods.

• Get Smart was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend; The Love Guru bombs like a mofo.
• The MTV Video Music Awards returns to LA after a 10 year absence.
• Timbaland gets married (again) in Aruba.
• Jermaine Dupri reveals that he and Janet Jackson are ready to spawn.
• Guitar Hero to score a major boon by teaming up with The Beatles?
• Coldplay score their first ever UK #1 single.
• The Wikipedia leaker got fired by NBC, natch.
• Larry Birkhead plans to show his daughter Dannielynn Hope her mother’s underwear when she grows up.
• Hugh Hefner reveals that he found gay sex “interesting” the “one time” he tried it.
• Josh Hartnett douses himself in Armani Diamonds.
• Katherine Heigl hits the beach.
• Kristin Cavallari does Privé.
• Cameron Diaz enjoys Jennifer Aniston’s sloppy seconds.
• Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong show their affection for one another on the tennis courts.
• Duffy is 24, Jason Mraz is 31, Selma Blair is 36 and Randy Jackson is 52 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• The Chicago Tribune writes a great article on Liz Phair’s redux version of Exile in Guyville.
• Ted Nugent has a yard sale.
• High gas prices are keeping indie bands off the road.

Celebrity baby girls don’t have a lock on all the cuteness these days, the celeb boys can also hold their own in the cute category. Here are a couple pics of a very pregs Gwen Stefani and her firstborn son Kingston James heading out of their London home over the weekend:

Sure, the kiddies are much cuter the younger they are but little Kingston is still very much a cutey. Gwen looks like she’s gettin’ close to birthin’ her next young’n … maybe that is why the fam has relocated to the UK for the time being. While Kingston was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2006, maybe the plan is for baby #2 to be born in London since daddy Gavin Rossdale is a Brit. Wouldn’t that be the perfect way to round out the perfect family? Of course, it’d be even perfecter if the next child born of the Stefani-Rossdale loins were a girl. It won’t be long now ’til we find out just how perfect the perfect family can be.

[Photo credit: INFdaily]

Harlow Winter Madden made a rare appearance this weekend surfacing with her proud mama Nicole Richie as they visited with friends over the weekend. Here are a couple superadorable pics of Nicole and Harlow … lookin’ as precious as can be:

Yeah, there ain’t no denying that Joel Madden is this little girl’s daddy. She looks exactly like him … there is just too much cuteness going on here. It’s hard to believe that this little girl has grown so much in the past few months … next thing you know she’s gonna be walking and talking … then singing with the Good Charlotte boys. It’ll happen sooner than you think.

[Photo credit: Ramey via Popsugar]

Trent Reznor updated the official Nine Inch Nails website with a new video of the band doing a live rehearsal of the song 1,000,000:

Woot! The vid looks great! I love the spartan look of the rehearsal space and the guys sound amazing. The Lights in the Sky Tour is just about a month away from getting underway in Vancouver, BC and I couldn’t be more excited. I hope that Trent unveils more video like this to whet our appetites ahead of the tour kickoff on July 25. Enjoy the vid!

UPDATE: Via pitchfork.tv, this video is the first of 3 rehearsal vids that have been recorded and will be shared online. Love it!!

[Source, thanks Carrie]

Anyone who has seen the Sex and the City Movie would prolly imagine that famed designer Vivienne Westwood is a fan of movie since she is heavily name-checked in a pivotal portion of the film. But, Westwood spoke to San Francisco Chronicle and revealed that not only is she not a fan of the whole Sex and the City fashion phenomenon but she was so dissatisfied with the movie that she left 10 minutes into the film’s premiere:

Legendary fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is not a fan of “Sex and the City: The Movie,” branding the film’s fashion styling uninspiring and “quite dull.” The designer, 67, is name-checked in the film and even created a dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker’s fashionista character Carrie. But Westwood insists she was far from impressed with stylist Patricia Field’s work on the big-screen adaptation of the hit TV series. She says, “I thought ‘Sex and the City’ was supposed to be about cutting-edge fashion and there was nothing remotely memorable or interesting about what I saw. “I went to the premiere and left after 10 minutes.”

Yowch! I had no idea that Westwood felt this way about the movie. As I said, anyone who has seen the film (once or, say, thrice) was prolly under the impression that Westwood was a big fan of SaTC … especially considering the way her name and her fabulous dress was featured in the film. I can’t imagine that SaTC stylist Patricia Field is very happy to hear Vivianne Westwood dissing her work. Who knows what it was exactly that set Vivianne Westwood off … maybe it was the belt?

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Mitch Winehouse, father of the troubled UK singer Amy Winehouse, revealed to the UK newspaper The Sunday Mirror over the weekend that his daughter is suffering from early stage emphysema due to her fondness for smoking “crack cocaine and cigarettes” and may be relegated to a wheelchair “within a month” if she does not heed the warnings of her doctors. This discovery was made after Amy finally succumbed to hospital treatment after collapsing in her home early last week. Here are pics of Mitch escorting Amy to one of her many visits to rehab before finally going to the hospital to undergo tests last Monday:

The troubled singer Amy Winehouse, right, has early stage emphysema as a result of smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes and may need an oxygen mask to breathe if she cannot stop, her father told a British newspaper, The Sunday Mirror, in an interview. Ms. Winehouse, 24, was taken to the hospital last Monday after a collapse and underwent tests last week. “The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” her father, Mitch Winehouse, said. Mr. Winehouse, who said his daughter also had an irregular heartbeat, added that focusing on her work has sometimes helped her to stay away from drugs, and that had she not performed recently in Moscow and Portugal, “she could have been dead by now.” Ms. Winehouse is scheduled to sing on Friday at a London concert celebrating the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela and also plans to take part in the Glastonbury music festival on Saturday.

Daddy Winehouse gave an exclusive interview with The Sunday Mirror this weekend where he opened up about his daughter’s health and his hopes that she will finally work towards taking her health seriously …

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