The Set List

The Bust of the Thin White Duke

The Smoking Gun has uncovered details of a David Bowie bust in Rochester, N.Y. in 1976 and the accompanying glamor - I mean, mug - shot. While it looks like he was arrested in the middle of a show, he was actually popped at a hotel and then returned three days later for booking. The owner of the photo is looking to sell.

After the VMAs:What Happens in Vegas...

The unspectacular Video Music Awards drove the point that so much of modern music is disposable.
Highlighting songs with the shelf life of bread crumbs, Britney Spears' ill-prepared, lip-synch performance provided the perfect distraction. While Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Foo Fighters will have long careers and make some of pop's most memorable  songs, there's little sense that these will be remembered as classics a decade from now.  Good as Kanye was, there's only one "Jesus Walks"; Timberlake  could get away with remaking "Sexy Back" for his next four albums and fans would probably not notice.
Meanwhile...
While West's performance was one of the better ones on the show, he says he will not appear on the network again. Ever. 
Roger Friedman says Britney Spears' horrid performance kills off hopes for significant sales of her Nov. 13 release - and he blames her manager.
Mark Caro come up with advice for other pop tartlets who see the VMAs as a comeback arena.
Time magazine's blogger had a good take on the deterioration of MTV.
Like an episode of "Cops," one scraggly tattooed longhair dude is charged with beating on another scraggly tattooed longhair. Rather than fighting over some crack addict, this gal was pretty.

Manager shown the meaning of being lonely

Boyband manager Lou Pearlman was doing as a good a job as  former clients Howie Dorough and Jesse Hart in staying underground -- until Indonesian authorities tossed him out of the country on Thursday. (He was popped for fraud and owes investors more than $310 million).  Earlier in the week, the goods in in his office and home were put up for auction and one guy walked away with a Backstreet Boys 7 million sold award for  $2,200. It appears he should have shopped at eBay.