There's a new kind of DWI, driving while intoxicated by your cell phone. People talking on their cells are almost completely oblivious to what goes on around them, according to a new study from Western Washington University. Researchers used a clown riding a unicycle past participants to test the awareness of nearly 350 pedestrians. When asked if they saw the clown, 71% of those walking with a friend remembered the clown, as did 61% of those listening to music. But shockingly, only 25% of the cell phone users remembered seeing a clown on a unicycle. "If people experience so much difficulty performing the task of walking when on a cell phone, just think of what this means when put into the context of driving safety," says psychology professor Ira Hyman.  ***MARLAR: I’m not sure this is a fair analysis.  Couldn’t it be that we just see clowns on the road so often that we’re just desensitized to them?

A high-pitched tone developed in Europe to drive teenagers out of public places is now being used by teenagers as a ringtone.  ***MARLAR: Proving that there is no sound so annoying that teenagers won't think it is music.

Doctors have always assumed that both human ears were basically the same. But a UCLA study of babies may change a lot of assumptions about the way the brain works, because it found that the right ear is better at picking up speech-like sounds, while the left ear is better at processing music. ***MARLAR: So one ear is for talking and one is for music...Which ear does rap go into?

Musician Moby has donated 100% of the proceeds from his California concerts to domestic violence shelters that had lost state funding.

Sounds like a good cause… Too bad no one listens to Moby anymore. (What's 100% of nothing?)

Is Bon Jovi evil? According to the church who 'convinced' me to destroy all my CD's except for Hillsong and other religious music, the answer is YES. I want my 'Keep The Faith' album back.

It's too bad Bob Dylan's Christmas album wasn't released during the Bush administration.   Al-Qaeda terrorists would have given up all their secrets.

   About two dozen well-known actors, musicians and, even, one national politician, recently formed a therapy group to treat their own obsession with, and addiction to, fame.

   Call themselves, "Celebrities Anonymous." 

Contrary to conventional parental beliefs about turning off loud music to study, psychologists at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland discovered that listening to rock music can boost brain power.  ***MARLAR: It did wonders for Ozzy Osbourne.

An 83 year old man has shot his musician son in the head because “he refused to stop drumming.” Absolutely no luck at all, that Pete Best!

some people play music all the time 

i hate stereotypes