When Kanye's not busy blogging from jail about designer faucets, he's apparently breaking Swedish indie pop songs, like the Peter, Bjorn & John’s brand-new “Nothing to Worry About.” Even Kanye seems amazed that the trio would give him right of first refusal; as he himself says, “SHIT IS DOPE!! DRUMS ARE CRAZY AND I LIKE THE KIDS ON THE HOOK.” Indeed, the giant beat, prominent bass, and high-pitched, loopy background chorus give the track almost a hip-hop flavor, though PB&J wisely forego any attempt at rapping — or Auto-Tune.

Download "Nothing to Worry About": Kanye West Blog

As Vulture continues to hold vigil in the hopes that poor sushi-poisoned Jeremy Piven might one day walk again, the New York Post's Michael Riedel reports that backers of Broadway's Speed-the-Plow are considering legal action against the ill star. The production was purportedly just one week away from breaking even on its $3.5 million budget when Piven was tragically struck down by a toxic sashimi and had to be flown back to Los Angeles. And now, says one source, the play's investors are hoping to "squeeze some money out of him" because he ruined "our chances of making a profit."

"Beyond the fact that I'm excited about pursuing that story and that world, I love the fact that, you know, you can make something and just put it up without, you know, without having to reshoot the whole thing."—Joss Whedon on why a Dr. Horrible follow-up is more exciting to him than Dollhouse [Sci-Fi Wire]

"Like, they were on an entirely black velvet set, wearing white bodysuits that they weren't allowed to sweat in, even though there was a bank of lights so powerful that they caused a brownout in Burbank. So they weren't allowed to sweat. They're running around in white suits on black velvet with these lights. And they were saying terms that for the time had no meaning for them. They didn't know what a 'program' was. Bruce [Boxleitner] was saying they were … pulling these things out of, like, sci-fi dictionaries. I mean, they had no idea." —Olivia Wilde on the difference between the first Tron and its upcoming sequel [SciFi Wire]

"I wanted to get some T-shirts made with an old pregnant bitch with a circle and a line through it." —Craig Robinson on cashing in on the popularity of his role as the club doorman in Knocked Up [A.V. Club]

"I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem at all. But we never hear that side of the story. I have no statement to make, I just wish people wouldn't sensationalize this thing that just exists. Some people are bad at taking drugs." — Lily Allen advocates that cocaine should get some more positive press [Word Magazine via PopEater]

The esteemed membership of the Razzie voting committee received their 2008 nominating ballots in the mail yesterday afternoon — and controversy abounds! While the official list of nominees for the year's worst movies and acting won't be released until January 21, the names on the ballot from which serious-minded voters are expected to choose are laughable at best.

By now we hope you've had a chance to peruse Vulture's Critics' Poll of 2008's crappiest movies, in which America's most prestigious reviewers gifted Will Smith's organ-donation comedy, Seven Pounds, with top honors. Today, Jeffrey Wells directs us to a fake, spoiler-y poster for the film that we wish its marketers would've used, if only because it might've saved us from having to write this post.

Seven Pounds Tops Stinkers [Hollywood Elsewhere]

Earlier: Vulture’s Critics’ Poll: What’s the Worst Movie of 2008?
How Bad Is Seven Pounds’ Ending, Anyway?

How nobody thought to do this already, post–Grey Album, is a mystery: DJ Minty Fresh Beats’ new mix, Jaydiohead, mashes up Jay-Z's a cappella rhymes with snippets of Radiohead tracks. But instead of sounding tired and gimmicky, tracks like “Dirt Off Your Android” (“Paranoid Android” meets “Dirt Off My Shoulder,” obviously!) actually add up to something: In this case, Radiohead’s creepy disaffection and ennui give context and scope to Hov’s “grams to Grammys” ambition. We don't know if Minty is the next Danger Mouse — maybe he can convince André 3000 to start a band with him called Extreme Abdul Jabar — but this track kicks off our Best of 2009 list.

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When we wrote about the brewing Category 4 Ben Lyons Hate Storm last week, Vulture took a mildly ambivalent stance on the self-proclaimed "movie dude." While a nation of highbrow critics are calling for his head on a platter (their bloodlust is so strong that they're not even demanding said platter be cast from silver), we kind of took the stance that Lyons isn't worth demonizing because he's pretty genial and, ultimately, not that influential. However, we just stumbled across a shoddily composed essay over at the Huffington Post titled "In Defense of Ben Lyons" that has us reconsidering our stance. Penned by a blogger named Cenk Uygur, the piece's crucial thesis statement reads as follows:

Here is my simple message to all the haters — get off Ben Lyons' ass.

"We were dangerously venturing into an area where everyone was so fake no one would have given a shit when it ended." —Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence on his show's upcoming finale [Ausiello Files/EW]

"I don't think Chris realized he was in a band until 2001. He all of a sudden woke up one day and realized he was in a band. He thought he was just recording my solo project." —Ben Gibbard on the origins of Death Cab for Cutie [A.V. Club]

"I think [the fact] that so many people are wondering along with me definitely puts pressure on my choices!" —Aubrey O'Day may get pressured into bisexuality [MTV]

You know the stock of a comic-book film franchise is low when not even the involvement of both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson can convince a single studio to finance the $135 million budget on its own. Even so, the just-announced casting of hilarious Brits Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as detectives Thompson Thomson and Thompson, has made us slightly more excited for Sony and Paramount's upcoming 3-D motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin. Who cares if the movie's based on a Belgian comic strip from the forties, or if Pegg and Frost probably won't get to kill any zombies or elderly in it! The fact that they're back together again is almost good enough to make us forget How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.

TINTIN Rumors Swirl! We Can Confirm One! [Ain't It Cool News]