Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Sting said contemporary rock music is so stagnant that he prefers to sing 16th century English ballads. The former teacher who shot to fame as lead singer, bassist and composer in the 1970s and 80s for The Police told German newspaper Die Zeit that he prefers singing songs of Elizabethan lutenist and composer John Dowland to the rock music of today. His album of Dowland lute music "Songs from the Labyrinth" has topped classical charts on both sides of the Atlantic and entered the UK album chart at No. 24. "Rock music has come to a standstill — it’s not going forward any more, it only bores me," Die Zeit quoted Sting as saying. The 55-year-old singer, real name Gordon Sumner, had a string of hits with The Police with songs like "Roxanne" and "Don’t Stand So Close To Me." He has since also had a lucrative solo career with songs like "Englishman in New York." "Forty years ago it was my dream to break out of Newcastle and never be poor again," he told the magazine. "I’m very privileged. I’m a successful musician, live in a beautiful house, and have a wonderful family."

Reuters 

I love The Police, but ever since Sting left them he bores me. I have seen him in concert twice and both times I felt the air conditioner.

Imagine this: You get on an airplane and the guy sitting next to you lights up a cigarette. You’re shocked. You try to hold your breath until you can call a flight attendant. Suddenly you look around and everyone else on the airplane is smoking too. Is this a nightmare? A flashback to back-of-the-plane air travel in the 70s? Nope. You’re just flying Smintair! The smokers airline! Smokers International Airline, Smintair for short, is the creation of Alexander Schopmann, a 55-year-old German retired stockbroker and cigarette fiend. Schopmann is a three-pack-a-day sort of fella, and says that this is not just about smoking but also about the declining quality of air travel. "I’ve been an airline passenger for 50 years," Schopmann told USA Today "It made me very angry that the gap between service and price became so big with regular airlines. Especially in the first class and business class, service is at its lowest point ever." So Schopmann’s plan is to have a premium service airline where flight attendants wear "couture," where the seats are all business and first class, caviar is served, and everyone is allowed to smoke. Is this visionary? Or just plain … smelly? We’ve smoked, and hanging in the "smoker’s lounge" in airports is bad enough. Being locked in a tube with no air coming in or going out — frankly, it sounds downright miserable. So when does Smintair start flying? Schopmann says March, but experts doubt he’ll be able to get it off the ground by then since it seems the air industry has a lot of little rules that must be abided before you can start flying. By the way, if you were wondering, the price for a smoking flight toTokyo from Düsseldorf is $12,500 for first class and $8,125 for business class. Smintair will not have any "coach" seating. Which we feel is the first good thing the wealthy have done for the working class in a long, long time.

Bravo’s The Dish 

Brilliant idea, I have to admit, but seriously a bad one.

Kristy Swanson wants to world to know she was never "the other woman." The former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star’s been plagued with rumors she stole her now-boyfriend, Olympic skater Lloyd Eisler, from his then-wife Marcia O’Brien while the two were partners on the FOX reality show "Skating with Celebrities." "You can’t control what the media chooses to put out there and say," Swanson told Tyra Banks, "We taped the show back in August of last year and then it didn’t air till February. Everybody thought all this stuff was happening and the scandal was happening at the same time and it just wasn’t." Though both Swanson and Eisler deny any affair took place, Eisler’s ex-wife, who was pregnant at the time, told a different story to Dr. Keith Ablow a month ago. She calls their claims, "a complete lie," adding, "I have e-mails which he sent me where he admits to when they started sleeping together, how many times they had slept together. I went through a series of STD testing given the fact that I was pregnant." Swanson is pregnant with Eisler’s child, due in on Valentine’s Day. The full interview with the two airs tomorrow on "The Tyra Banks Show."

TMZ

Whatever helps her sleep at night. But we all know she is one?

John Lennon’s killer was denied parole for a fourth time Tuesday because of the "bizarre nature" of his crime. Mark David Chapman, 51, must remain at Attica Correctional Facility for at least two more years for gunning down the former Beatle outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980. "The panel remains concerned about the bizarre nature of this premeditated and violent crime," the board wrote in a one-page decision issued shortly after Chapman’s appearance before the three-member panel at Attica. The hearing lasted 16 minutes, said Scott Steinhardt, spokesman for the state Division of Parole. A transcript of the hearing was not immediately available. "While the panel notes your satisfactory institutional adjustment," the decision said, "due to the extremely violent nature of the offence, your release would not be in the best interest of the community." The decision came one day after what would have been Lennon’s 66th birthday. Chapman has been in prison for 25 years. He became eligible for release after serving 20 years of a maximum life sentence. His next appearance before the parole board will be in October 2008.

JAM! 

I hope he never gets out

Rapper Diddy has sensationally admitted that he did not write much of his early material. The artist, real name Sean Combs, reveals his creative input to his first three albums, No Way Out, Forever and The Saga Continues, was more than limited. However he insists all has changed for his latest release. Press Play is due out on October 17, and features guest appearances from Mary J. Blige and Kanye West among others. Speaking of the record, Combs said: "On a lot of the other records, to be honest, I didn’t do a whole lot of writing. On this one, I did a lot."

Digital Spy 

So he samples and has other people write for him, what does he do then?

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