The Foo Fighters played a surprise show last night with Queens Of The Stone Age, thrown together by Verizon to celebrate the release of the new Blackberry Storm. To get in, you had to play that game where you text some retarded phrase to some weird five digit number. If you got a reply and jumped through a couple hoops, you ‘won,’ but then you had to be one of the first 800 ‘winners’ to beat the traffic into Hollywood to be there by 7:30…

After the text message game, I expected the Avalon event to be a corporate whorehouse, but I’ve gotta admit, Verizon handled it pretty well.

Five years ago today, Wesley Willis died. Hopefully we won’t be the only music site to note the occasion and pay our respect, but I imagine elsewhere he will be recognized as some sort of schizophrenic-savant musical genius.

We prefer to remember Wesley Willis as one of the most passionate and dedicated music fans ever to walk the earth. It’s that rare class of devotion, and not his mad skillz with Technics sample melodies, that make him one of our heroes here at Antiquiet.