While You Were Sleeping, Kanye’s Baby And Album Both Leaked Early

Spend $3000 On A Gross Old Clump Of Mick Jagger’s Hair: 

Bonhams — an auction house in Britain — will be putting a lock of Mick Jagger’s hair up for auction in July 3. It’s expected to fetch anywhere between $2,300 and $3,100, because people are disgusting.

Apparently, the hair was snipped by his ex-lover Chrissie Shrimpton back in the 1960s. When the couple went to visit her family’s estate, her cretinous grandmother stole the hair without her daughter’s permission and then held onto it until her death, like a total creep. After she died, it passed to Chrissie’s aunt, who also held onto it until her death for some revolting reason.

After Chrissie’s aunt died, a cousin fetched the hair and returned it to Chrissie, who is now selling it to some weirdo to raise funds for Changing Faces, a charity helping people with disfigurements.

The label says Mick Jagger’s hair after being washed + trimmed by Chris at Rose Hill Farm. So at least it’s clean?

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Sydney Film Festival Competition Winners:

Nicholas Winding Refn’s Ryan Gosling-starring Only God Forgives won Official Competition at Sydney Film Festival — a surprising result, considering how totally booed it got at Cannes earlier this year. The film’s latest trailer came out over the weekend, too.

Other prize winners were Dylan McDonald’s Buckskin (FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize), Miranda Nation’s Perception (Dendy Award for best Live Action Short), David Lyons’ Record (Rouben Mamoulian Award), and Isabel Peppard’s Butterflies (Yoram Gross Animation Award).

Family Guy Is Still The Worst:

Here’s the campaign poster Seth Macfarlane’s Family Guy is running in Friday’s issue of Hollywood Reporter, for consideration at the Emmys.

The ad is a take on the series one poster of Girls. Without the tagline at the top, it would have been fine — but because Family Guy is the worst, and because Lena Dunham is just so into misogynistic parodies of her show, they had to reference the most distressing sex (rape?) that the show has offered up. Good one.

Hard to pick which one’s worse between that ad and the one from last year:

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Kanye Releases Album, Baby:

Two days before the official June 18 release date of Yeezus, and five weeks before his baby was due, both dropped (ew) entered the world on the same weekend as America’s Father’s Day.

While critics still decide about the daughter, some early reviews have surfaced for the album. “This is a vicious, petulant, abrasive, colossally vain, frequently hilarious record, most of the time intentionally,” says  Rob Harvilla at Spin. ”Yeezus is the darkest, most extreme music Kanye has ever cooked up, an extravagantly abrasive album full of grinding electro, pummeling minimalist hip-hop, drone-y wooz and industrial gear-grind,” says Jon Dolan at Rolling Stone. “Yeezus is a fiercely edited, assaultive, and noisy work, concerned less with grandeur than with intensity. It doesn’t sound like anything else on the charts,” says Sasha Frere-Jones at the New Yorker. 

The album was promoted by Yeezy this weekend with another of his projections — this time a teaser for his American Psycho-inspired short film, starring Scott Disick and Jonathan Cheban. If you can find the leak — still available SOMEWHERE ONLINE, until Def Jam manage to contain it — you will have already found your favourite song title, and within it your favourite meme-ready lyric.

Congratulations, everyone!