Blog Posts by Daniel Kreps

It's hard to top a music video starring everyone's "Mad Men" crush Christina Hendricks, but Broken Bells' James Mercer and Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton have blown our minds by digitally inserting themselves into Hall & Oates' awesomely '80s "Private Eyes" video for Broken Bells' new clip, "The Ghost Inside." Director Matt McCormick tells Vulture that after listening to the hand claps in both songs, he realized the "structure and tempo [of 'Private Eyes'] was pretty darn close" to "The Ghost Inside," and had the duo's mouths grafted onto the original video in what turns out to be a near-perfection synchronization.

To think, if those hand claps were separated by another microsecond, McCormick might have suggested Broken Bells get synched up with this Lionel Richie clip, which incidentally also features an impressive mustache. Check out the original "Private Eyes" and "The Ghost Inside" videos:

Hall & Oates — "Private Eyes"

Broken Bells — "The Ghost Inside" (Joan Holloway Version)

In early September, T.I. was nabbed by cops after making an illegal turn in his Maybach, which smelled enough like weed that cops executed a search on the vehicle and uncovered a handful of Ecstasy pills. If the bust seemed like the perfect example of what not to do on probation, Tip's fellow Atlanta MC Gucci Mane has certainly upped the ante.

As Gucci says, "Danger's not a stranger." Here's how he seemingly earned himself an all-expenses-paid trip back to the Big House:

• Running a red light (don't do that)
• Operating a vehicle (in this case, an inconspicuous white Hummer) without a license or proof of insurance (avoid)
• Damage to government property (not recommended)
• Driving on the wrong side of the road (definitely don't do that)
• Police needed to use pepper spray to subdue Gucci in order to 1) stop him from fighting with an unnamed person and 2) bring him into custody (painful, certainly not advised)

Gucci was taken to a hospital following the incident, then spent the night in the

"I Am Not a Human Being." A self-proclaimed "Martian." Lil Wayne has written countless lyrics hammering into the skulls of fans that he's an extraterrestrial and an otherworldly rapper. If science fiction has taught us anything, it's that our encounters will alien life forms will always be cinematic. "E.T.," the monoliths from "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Suburban Commando" -- it's weird, wild stuff. So why have Weezy's transmissions from prison via his Weezy Thanx You blog been so consistently boring? Has life behind bars tempered Lil Wayne?

In his final update from Rikers Island before his planned release on Thursday, Lil Wayne once again writes about how many letters he's received and how his heart is always smiling and how much he thanks everyone for their support. Essentially, the same message he's been broadcasting on his blog since May. We understand a prison stint should be spent reflecting about the crime you've committed and it's a time for serious sincerity, but couldn't Weezy

Kanye West has at last unveiled the final track list for his new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", and frankly, we have a big problem with it: the standout song "Chain Heavy" did not make the cut. We heard the majority of Kanye's new album this summer when the rapper visited Rolling Stone, and "Chain Heavy" was the highlight of the showcase, its loopy beats and anthemic chorus reminiscent of West's own "Jesus Walks," except it had nothing to do with Jesus. "They try to tell me that aliens built the pyramids, I swear life's a bitch on a period," Kanye raps on the track, displaying his obliquely oddball wordplay. "I keep that G.O.A.T. book on the Ottoman and wrote songs about slaves that were slaughtered in the 1800s... this is the makings of a masterpiece, so we broke out of the chains and told the master 'Peace!'... My chain heavy, my chain too heavy." Later, when Kanye worked the room and shook hands with everyone at the impromptu listening party, we pleaded with him, "You