Astute readers must have picked up an earlier reference to this video - Sparks' "I Predict" - in our Scott Heim interview. Well, even if you didn't, here it is. We're particularly fond of the Hitler-mustached man/woman.

The eighties sure were wild!

We haven't bought an Erykah Badu album since her debut, Baduizm, but we're beginning to regret our aural ignorance. The singer will soon release her latest, the exhaustingly entitled New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), which includes this track, "Honey".

And, as you can guess by the inclusion, we're eating it up.

Looking for a bit of an escape? Well, look no further than Canadian crooner Patrick Watson's touching track called - you guessed it - "The Great Escape".

Meet some "Drifters" after the jump.

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Nina Simone may have died back in 2003, but her spirit lives on, especially during Pride Week, when we all remember the revolutionary spirit that gave us gay life. Simone used her immense talent to combat America's - and the world's - civil rights abuses of the 20th century. As we march further into the 21st century, let's all use Simone as an inspiration, shall we?

Above you'll see Simone seeing "Ain't Got No - I Got No Life" performed life in Harlem in 1969, the same year as The Stonewall Rebellion. After the jump, check out "Young, Gifted and Black" from the same show, as well as another Simone classic, "Mississippi Goddamn".

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