Knowing Ke$ha is a Pixies fan endeared her to The Amp a long time ago, but we learned three more things about the pop star recently that made us want to run out and buy her Black Friday disc "Cannibal":

• She wore "Wayne's World" to the American Music Awards.
Ke$ha's unusual AMAs dress wasn't just made out of spools of VCR tapes -- they were her own recordings of cult classics from the '80s and '90s salvaged from a disaster. "When Nashville flooded earlier this year, all my favorite VHS tapes from when I was little -- 'Wayne's World,' 'The Lost Boys' -- were in my basement and got destroyed. I was watching 'Lost Boys' recently and thought, 'I should wear the insides of this tape as my dress at the AMAs,' " she told Spin.

• Her ideal man is a pirate.
When asked about her turn-ons by Complex, Ke$ha named quarters. Like, a bag of money. "Like a big bearded guy with a bag of quarters. I think it's some weird pirate fantasy that was unfulfilled in a past lifetime."

• She knows her job

Everyone's been so distracted with Christina Aguilera's big-screen debut in "Burlesque" this week that they overlooked the fact that Nas, Mr. Illmatic himself, made his first foray into television acting on last night's episode of the rebooted "Hawaii 5-0." In his 80 seconds of screen time, courtesy of Nah Right, Nasir Jones plays "Gordon Smith," an ex-con caught up in a robbery after being used as a decoy by the actual robbers. The plot is essentially lifted from this much-circulated October 2008 story where a pack of thieves (dressed as road maintenance workers) used Craigslist to recruit a pack of unknowing decoys (actual road maintenance workers) to show up at the location where the crooks were robbing an armored car. The typical procedural "ripped from the headlines" plot line, so let's focus on Nas' small-screen acting chops.

The rapper previously starred in the 1998 gangsta film "Belly," but since then it's been a bunch of uncredited cameos or "As Himself" appearances. Despite

Like its buddy the music industry, the touring business did not have the most profitable year in 2010. In fact, it was a pretty lousy stretch for Live Nation Ticketmaster, as many of its marquee acts either postponed entire tours (U2, Christina Aguilera) or canceled select shows (Rihanna, the Jonas Brothers) due to vague illnesses or scheduling conflicts (code words for "poor ticket sales"). Next year is thankfully shaping up to be a better one for the touring faction: Lady Gaga and U2 are coming back around, instant sell-outs like Radiohead, Coldplay and Kanye West are due for U.S. treks and, most importantly, Ticketmaster is incorporating social networking features into its site! That's right, Live Nation Ticketmaster, the publicly reviled concert giant that over a year after its merger still can't launch one uniform site, is going all Facebook on ticket buyers.

As Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard tells it, "The concept is simple: instead of letting your friends know you've purchased

Ne-Yo ended his medley of songs from "Libra Scale" at the American Music Awards Sunday flat on his back. According to the R&B star, that was how his performance was supposed to wrap -- but not exactly. "I was supposed to fall... but I wasn't supposed to fall like that," Ne-Yo told George Lopez last night. "There's a way that you can fall and not hurt yourself, and that's not it."

There's got to be something in the Perrier backstage at the AMAs, because falling flat is just what that show does. Last year, Jennifer Lopez slipped and landed on her rear end when a dance stunt went awry during her performance of "Louboutins" (2:52 mark). "Yeah, I meant to do that. That was part of the choreography," she later joked while dying inside. Adam Lambert also stumbled during a "For Your Entertainment" that fell flat in nearly every sense: The "American Idol" runner-up sang off-key, offended a huge chunk of his fanbase, and tumbled when his foot got caught on a piece of scenery (he recovered by