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“I’m not out to prove anything to anybody,” Leto tells Billboard.com. “If they like it great, if they don’t, they can fuck off. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m not running for president. I’m just in a band. It’s not that big a deal.”

So it goes. Leto’s whining about his rawk band, 30 Seconds To Mars in case you don’t know what’s going on here. Yeah. It’s hard to care for Leto Rawk when we’ve already tasted the grand failures of Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar and Russell Crowe’s Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts.

“A big part of what 30 Seconds To Mars has always been about is the live aspect,” says Leto. “We put a lot of thought and time and energy and passion into how we present ourselves. This (tour) is going to give us the opportunity to explore a lot of different things. It’s been a long time coming.”

And a short time staying.

But not for his lousy music. No, Mr. New Age Crapola was arrested for a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. Almost like the Jackson Browne thing, but not quite, although he did throw his honey’s clothes on the floor and then shook her, threw her on the bed and pounced on her. Rarrr! Yanni a wild man? Who knew? Maybe his own fuzak has finally driven him to insanity and he needed to get his frustrations out. And who better than one of his zombie faithful who finds that crap entertaining?

Time for a new pearl Jam album. Big deal, you say? Yeah, I’m right there with you. Having never cared for the band, even in their prime, it’s harder to care about them now when it seems like the band members should all be working at Kmart. But they’re going forward with a self-titled new album that finds its inspiration in George W. Bush’s reelection. Can you say “dated within 5 minutes?” I knew that you could. Hey I’ll be the first to stand up and say “I didn’t vote for that guy either time,” but albums like these are doomed for the cheap bin. “Hey man, remember when Eddie Vedder really stuck it to Dubya on that album of Pearl Jam’s?” Gee, who hasn’t stuck it to Dubya by now?

Like anyone should be surprised. Justin Timberlake claims songwriting takes too long! Something to do with it not fitting in to his “busy lifestyle” or whatnot. But really, after coming out of N Sync, where you just gotta stand around and look good, why waste time on developing a real talent? Oh wait, I forget, he can dance and sing like Michael Jackson. So could Corey Feldman (at least on the dancing part), and we all know what happened to Corey, right? Feldman could kick Timberlake’s ass any day. Just give him some coke and a smile.

You need more reality, don’tcha? No? Too bad, because Lil’ Kim has a new show on BET called Countdown To Lockdown. Focusing on Kim’s last two weeks of freedom before being incarcerated. “We take an unblinking look at her life and her choices, and the consequences of those choices,” says BET President of Entertainment Reginald Hudlin. Gee, now if I only cared. Someone’s gonna be glued to the set in tears, though. Stop the world, I’m getting off.