Bethenny Frankel and her husband Jason Hoppy arrived at LAX today with their daughter Bryn, their dog Cookie and their assistant, Julie. I have been dying for my Bethenny fix ever since Bethenny is Getting Married? ended, so I was thrilled to see that everyone is looking well and Bethenny is still drawn to the cameras like a moth to a flame. Let’s get season two going…

If you’re a fan of club music, you may have noticed that the Black Eyed Peas song “The Time” sounds an awful lot like a remix that was done by Deadmau5 for Medina’s “You and I”

Deadmau5 decided to officially address this on his Facebook page, and while he does agree that the song seems to use pretty much the exact same loops in certain places, that it’s no crime. From the producer’s Facebook page:

i’ve been getting a few tweets on and off about Black Eyed Peas’s new single “The Time” that more or less said… heyy sounds like you ish… So… i went and checked it out, at first listen… i was like… naaahhh i mean, it’s cool for what it is and all that… and doesnt really sound much like me at all. but then i heard a highhat… and something just clicked.

yup! i so know that highat… and the pattern it was in… so i went to my masters folder, cracked open my instrumental mix of “You and i” remix thing i did for Medina… and there it was again, starring me in the face… so i coupled up the waveforms.. which was pretty easy, since theyre both exactly 128 BPM… and had a look…  from what i could gather, looks like the loop was layered on top of a tiny bit (on the snare end) and the “loop” was compressed (which woulda made it doubly compressed in this case)  the phases in the kick drum lined up.. which isnt the most rare occurance in the world of “the same fuckin kick over and over and over again”… but enough to give it a closer look for sure. Then that similar reversed highat at the end of every 2nd bar was there again.

This isnt calling the black eyed peas out at all. i rather enjoy that minimal bit of the tune… (however the 80′s remake vocals can fuck off and die) This is just another interesting factoid i keep finding about sampling and electronic music… which is clearley prevalent and welcomed (when used properly) in this genre of music no doubt!

here are some figs. for ya.  OOOH SCIENCE!!!!

You And I remix on top… Black eyed Peas on bottom.

i guess you can pretty much see that the exact same transient pattern on that “early clap” type snare is the exact same.

and obvsiosly the same (or very similar kick) was used.. however theirs was way more compressed (at least in this version i got) as you can tell the kick looks a bit longer, but thats because the overcompression is lifting up more of the tail of the kick.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh we’re going to turn out to be great friends.’ But I think she needed to be able to look at me just as the character Susanna, not as Winona, so in a very respectful way she just kind of kept her distance. I saw her at one of the awards shows but I haven’t really seen her since.”

- Winona Ryder on how she wanted to become friends with Angelina Jolie while on the set of Girl, Interrupted, but didn’t.

It’s not just teenagers that are getting hassled for weed. Willie Nelson was charged with drug possession this morning after 6 ounces of marijuana were found in his tour bus.

From the AP:

Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.

Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested.

Sheriff Arvin West didn’t immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.

We JUST talked about this in the Bristol Palin post, but I really don’t think that driving around with some weed is the biggest offense police officers need to be worrying about these days.

However, six ounces is a fuckin’ lot of weed. Like, I’m trying to imagine it in my head, and I feel like six ounces would fill up at least half of a trash bag, if not the whole thing. I’m not pissed about the fact that the weed’s illegal, but tour buses are small. There has to be a better way for Willie to use that space. It’s not like people don’t hand him joints everywhere he goes, right?

Guess what, guys? The exact thing that all journalists have been trying to prove for the last year continues to be true: The Palin kids are ridiculously American and normal. Earlier this week we learned that 15-year old Willow and her boyfriend had a pregnancy scare and that she uses Facebook in a really inappropriate fashion and now we’re learning that she allegedly purchased marijuana in a parking lot once.

From CelebDirtyLaundry:

Former classmate of homophobic facebook ranter Willow Palin, 16,  sister of Bristol Palin and daughter of Sarah Palin was seen by former classmate Lance Nezaticky, 18, involved in buying marijuana, $20 worth, in a deserted Target parking lot at 1am on a December night last year.  Lance saw the male driver of the car in which Willow was a passenger pass the money to the dealer then pass the marijuana to Willow!

L & S reports: ”It was definitely her,” Nezaticky says. “There’s no question. I had met her before.” After buying roughly 2 grams of pot, Willow and her companion drove off. “Willow had been told that the pot was really good stuff.”

Eh. I kind of hate this story because harping on some crappy Alaskan weed purchase is pretty petty shit compared to her calling someone a faggot on Facebook last week. Also, like… it’s weed. I’m pretty sure that Willow scoring a bag of the good green is the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of a Palin family member doing. Let’s not villainize her for that.

No, not smoking hot, although I’m sure she would love that. Nope, a pregnant Kim Zolciak was caught sucking down cigs during a NFL game a couple weeks ago, after she’d already publicly announced that she was in the first trimester of her pregnancy.

Hmmm, baby daddy drama, announcing your pregnancy early AND smoking? Jeez, Kim. For an pregnant older woman, you sure aren’t giving your baby a very good chance of survival.

[Image courtesy of TMZ, obviously)