• You know you love David Byrne, so why not prove it to him by seeing his light/sound installation at Pace/MacGill in NYC. It's only up for four more days, so it's basically now or never. If you don't go, he'll cry. [Pace/MacGill]

• The Power Issue subject Adrian L. Acosta may be the hardest working man in show business. Or, at least, the hardest working man we know: his merry musical buddies, No Subordination, just posted their demo on MySpace. [MySpace]

• A man claims that Golan "I Didn't Fuck Jim McGreevey" Cipel checked him out at the Reebok Sports Club in Amsterdam. How can he prove it? Well, he can't, but we believe him anyway. [Gawker]

• Gael Garcia Bernal loves the homos. How much? Well, he's just joined the fight for gay-nups in Mexico City, where conservatives are trying to strike down a new law allowing same-sex marriage. Oh, and some less famous/attractive people joined the movement, too. [International Herald Tribute]

• 39.5 million people are currently living with HIV. Needless to say, that's a pretty hefty - and upsetting - number. While the rates continue to rise, there is some good news: more people have access to necessary medicines. Of course, there could always be more. [Canada.com]

• Here's some proof God exists: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have both denied the existence of a sex-tape. While we don't believe them, we sure are glad we won't be tempted to watch them make a baby (and you know they did). [Mollygood]

• We can only imagine how many Buckeye heads are spinning: Ohio-based Miami University has agreed to keep same-sex benefits for employees. [Cincinnati Enquirer]

• Who's funny, Jewish and lesbianic? Well, lots of people, but in this case we mean Judy Gold. And, you know what? She's yucking it up over at AfterEllen. [AfterEllen]

We love Rhino records because they are continuously re-releasing classic albums that we’ve always loved, but that have been buried by the media bombardment of Madonna and Britney and Jessica Simpson. It is nice to remember a time when a machine did not manufacture music, a time when true originality was evident.

Talking Heads were a band that defied all labels and comparisons. Quite simply there was nothing that sounded remotely close to the band and there has been no one close since the band disbanded in the early 1990s. During their time together the band released 8 albums, all of which have been reissued this month. We’ve lost ourselves in the tracks.

Fronted by the freaky David Byrne and rounded out by Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison, the Heads’ sound mixes punk, world music, funk, rock, and good old-fashioned pop. “Once In A Lifetime” remains a classic. They were always champions of the offbeat and quirky. As kids in the 1980s we related.

This week we’ve discovered that we still do.

Talking Heads Reissues [Rhino Records]
Talking Heads [Wikipedia]

• Of course the one Italian we definitely don’t want to see strip on television ends up being the one that does.

• A transsexual thief has targeted a sunglasses boutique in Boston. Because a tranny cannot have enough Gucci.

• Fatboy Slim and David Byrne are making a musical about Imelda Marcos. And they’re straight?

• Michael Lucas and gang are hosting a party tonight in NYC at View Bar. It could be your chance to get lucky with a porn star.

• Rupert Everett has turned into a bitter, old woman. Big shock.