Hello, is this Santino? Santino Rice from Project Runway - season two? Oh my god, it is! I love you, you’re like the most amazing designer…uhh, would you mind transferring me over to Bobby Trendy?

RMB blurbs:

Ring My Bell is the new show where YOU the viewer phone in and speak LIVE with celebrity guests, fabulous people, assorted commentators, artists and freaks.

After you’ve checked out RMB, be sure to head over to the mothership - WOW TV!

Found on: RMB’s Myspace page

Must reads:

RMB’s website

RMB Santino Video

Sellaband is a crowdsourcing platform/social network that enables fans of music dubbed “believers” to discover new bands and solo artists and for a nominal fee of 10 dollars, you can sponsor them and get a piece of the pie in return.

Sellaband blurbs:

The music industry is all about fences. Those who are on the inside, and those who are on the outside. SellaBand wants to break down all the fences. Everybody with a passion for music can be on the inside. It’s your music. It’s your choice.

If you’re a Sellaband solo artist or an up and coming band, you just might get popped because…I’m a believer.

Found on: Sellaband Myspace page

Must reads:

How it works…

The founder of Sellaband (Pim Beitist) gets interviewed

Audrey Kawasaki creates airy, delicate images of girls. They’re usually submerged in porcelain skins and have a sense of vulnerability that makes them both fastidious and alluring.

Audrey Kawasaki’s blurbs:

The themes in Audrey Kawasaki’s work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey’s precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter.

I hope to own one of Audrey’s paintings one day - soon.

Found on: Audrey Kawasaki’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Audrey Kawasaki’s website

Audrey Kawasaki’s Live Journal page

Missingtoof.com has quickly become one of my favorite music blogs, covering all things indie, electro and new wave - with contributing writers from L.A, the Bay Area up in Cali and as far away as Melbourne, Australia. Straight up, these guys have a nose for the undiscovered, an ear for the underground and best of all, they know their shit and have great taste in music!

Missingtoof’s blurbs:

If you are an artist, dj, bedroom producer & would like to send us music please do! It may take us a while to get back to you, but we do listen to everything that is sent to us.

I almost forgot, you can listen to tons of mp3s and their also available to download.

Found on: MissiongToof’s Mybloglog page

Must reads:

Missing Toof’s Website

Missing Toof’s Myspace page

Margaret Cho is one of those comedians you either love or hate and in my case, I happen to love her - not because she was the first Korean female I remember seeing on network television, ironically on a show called: “All-American Girl” (Chinese extras on MASH don’t count!) she’s also super smart, punk-rock-sassy and her razor sharp humor is lethal.

Margaret’s blurbs:

Margaret Cho was born Dec. 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. “It was different than any other place on Earth,” she says. “I grew up and went to grammar school on Haight Street during the ’70s. There were old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the ’60s, drag queens, and Chinese people. To say it was a melting pot - that’s the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time.”

MC, your most recent post on your blog really helped get my head straight - komapsumnida!

Found on: Margaret Cho’s Mypsace page

Must reads:

Margaret’s Website

Margaret’s Blog

Margaret Cho - Asian Chicken Salad

On April 26th, the brilliant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and the author of “A Brief History of Time,” Stephen Hawking will be taking one small step towards realizing his dream of flying in space one day.

Stephen Hawking’s blurbs:

“As someone who has studied gravity and black holes all of my life, I am excited to experience, firsthand, weightlessness and a zero-gravity environment,” Hawking said Thursday in a written statement released by Zero Gravity. “I am thankful to Zero Gravity Corp. for making this experience available to the general public, especially for disabled individuals.”

Found on: Stephen Hawking’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Stephen Hawking to go weightless in April

Hawking hopes to go into space in 2009

The great David Cross tackles the question that’s on all of our minds.

Don’t let their name fool you, the boys in Manchester Orchestra are actually from the ATL and I have yet to see any pictures of them playing a string, woodwind or brass instrument - tricky lads.

Manchester’s blurbs:

Though Manchester Orchestra has only been a proper band for a year and a half, this young quintet (with an average age of 19) has crafted an album that sounds more aware and traveled than many of its more aged peers. Led by singer / songwriter / guitarist Andy Hull, Manchester Orchestra’s debut LP, I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child, is a statement cinematic in scope.

Found on: Manchesters Orchestra’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Spin.com Article

Atlanta Music Guide

Manchester Orchestra’s Podcast