Starting at age 5, Thain Johnson has lived for the adrenaline rush he gets when teetering on the edge of a rail on his skateboard. Full Article at Great Falls Tribune

Lou Albano played Cyndi Lauper's father in the video of her hit Girls Just Want to Have Fun, 1983. Photograph: AP Photo (c) 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

The aughts! Thank you. Ive been looking for the name of this decade, and I havent known what it was. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, reflecting to MTV on 2009 with his 500 Days of Summer costar Zooey Deschanel, who told him what the aughts are. Full Article at Detroit Free Press

When the mayor of Belmar, NJ, blasted Staten Island as the epicenter of the obnoxious “guidos and guidettes” who were ruining his quaint seaside town, most saw his stereotype-filled tirade as a thinly veiled racist rant. Full Article at New York Post

Beyonce performs at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Why Beyoncé? Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Think of them as REM’s quirky cousin. Full Article at Aquarium Drunkard

Oxygen has landed the exclusive cable rights to repeats of The CW’s unscripted series America’s Next Top Model, shelling out for the entire library of 11 cycles and any future installments. Full Article at MediaWeek

BELVIDERE — The holiday season has officially started at Showtime with a live show of the Gar Francis Band. Full Article at NJ.com

and show off some of the songs at their most simple, kind of at their most stripped down, at the skeleton, at the core of what some of them were written or how they were written. Full Article at Inside Bay Area

Spencer finds Heidi's pregnancy test in the garbage on MTV's "The Hills." (Photo by MTV) Well, O. M. G.! My Oedipus scenario is actually playing out. Spencer's friend Charlie even said so! Allow me to start from the beginning. Full Article at New York Daily News

Robin Wright Penn wasn't supposed to be in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," at least not in the way it was originally conceived by indie filmmaker Rebecca Miller ("The Ballad of Jack and Rose"). Full Article at MTV.com

I mentioned this yesterday in our gift guide, but now it's official -- Harmonix and MTV have announced that Rock Band now has more than 1,000 songs available to play. That's more than 390 bands, according to the developer and publisher. Full Article at GamePad

MTV has posted the first trailer for The Real World DC on its web site. Full Article at DCist

Damon Dash recently took MTV News on a tour of his new Lower Manhattan art gallery/ studio compound, DD172. Full Article at MTV.com

BEVERLY HILLS, California — As you read this, "New Moon" has the biggest opening weekend of 2009, will certainly rake in millions more this weekend and could possibly go on to become the highest-grossing film of the year. Full Article at VH1

I mentioned this yesterday in our gift guide, but now it's official -- Harmonix and MTV have announced that Rock Band now has more than 1,000 songs available to play. That's more than 390 bands, according to the developer and publisher. Full Article at Destructoid

Cartel. Photo: Ray Lego FRIDAY Cartel You might remember this Atlanta band as the pop-punk quintet that recorded an album in a glass-encased studio sponsored by MTV and Dr. Pepper. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Blogs

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FROM MTV.COM: "Ninja Assassin" starts off with one of the coolest and most gruesomely entertaining movie scenes of the year: a claustrophobic attack from some masked killers who slice, dice and decapitate their way through some unlucky gangsters,... Full Article at MTV.com