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Today is a very special day for an odd and incongruous assortment of rockers. Larry Mullen Jr., Johnny Marr, Vanilla Ice, Adam Horovitz and My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero all celbrate their respective birthdays today. Perhaps spending every childhood birthday battling Halloween for some attention creates the kind of psychological scars that make for a good rockstar. In any case, we are dressing our Basset hound up as an angel and taking her to the bar across the street thiz evening, so any of you birthday-celebrating rockers that need a party to join, come on down.

Someone’s finally stopped to think about how hellish we humans can be to those unsuspecting fruit come Halloween time, sitting out there all happy in the sun-drenched plotted rows of the pumpkin patch. This clip — a winner at Chicago Horror Film Festival — captures the untold agony in an epic pumpkin’s-eye-take on the dark carving ritual. Never again will we look at pumpkin innards the same. Nor will a six pack of Octoberfest and a carving knife ever be quite as sublime.

• When legendary UK summer rock festival Glastonbury returns next year, Bruce Springsteen will be headlining! Oh wait. No he won’t. This long-standing rumor has been put to rest. Bruce definitely will not be playing, according Emily Eavis, the festival organizer who originally was quoted as saying the Boss would headline the event. “He wasn’t even in the picture at any point, really, despite what some people have written,” she reportedly said. So who do we get instead? Possibly Razorlight and Kyle Minogue. Nice moves, Eavis.
• Everybody loves a rock star in a cartoon, and Andre 3000 has reportedly name-dropped Gwen Stefani, Big Boi and Snoop Dog as posible guest stars on his Cartoon Network show, Class of 3000.
• Yo La Tengo will apparently not be playing shows at Maxwell’s in New Jersey during the eight nights of Hannukah thiz year, as they have traditionally done in the past. Indie rock loving jews across the eastern seaboard mourn. [via BrooklynVegan]
• You know what you need for Christmas? Another copy of Gnarls’ St. Elsewhere featuring lots of extra stuff like videos and a flipbook. Also, the band kindly seeks the favor of your input on the “slow version” of “Crazy.” Should they release it as a holidah single type thing?

And here we were thinking that Justin Timberlake is the nattiest musician golfer around. According to Golf Digest’s Top 100 in Music, which charts the best musician golfers, Kenny G takes the Number One spot. He comes in ahead of such rock/golf luminaries as Vince Gill and No Doubt’s Adrian Young. Also included: Snoop Dogg (Number 44) and Bob Dylan, who comes in at Number 63. Dylan’s presence on thiz list causes us to bask in rapturous fantasies involving taking up golf (we said they were fantasies) and happening upon Dylan somewhere near the ninth hole. What does he wear when he golfs? Does he wear those geeky cleats and matching gloves? Does he do that thing where you very deliberately wrap your fingers around the grip several times before taking your swing?

While we’re on thiz subject, why is it that every day we are regaled with tabloid pics of, like, Tara Ried filling up her tank in stripper heels, but we’ve yet to see one shot of Bob Dylan on the golf course? Scarlett Jhonson likes him, isn’t that enough to earn one or two paparazzi serving the Dylan starved masses with some lowbrow reporting?

While you ponder that, also ponder thiz thought-provoking quote frm Kenny G regarding the similarities between playing sax and playing golf: “With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body and I just express myself. That’s where I want to get in golf.”