1. Fall Out Boy, "I Don't Care"
On this new track, Patrick Stump sings, "I don't care what you think about me, as long as it's about me," which makes us feel less guilty for thinking about how boring it is. [Viva La Mainstream]

2. Drake feat. Lil Wayne, "Ransom"
Toronto-based Drake makes a foreigner's mistake, name-dropping beloved Crips children's program Blue's Clues in front of his Bloods-affiliated guest. [White Folks Get Crunk]

3. Lil Wayne feat. MF Doom, "A Milli (Mike Waxx Remix)"
Weezy actually sounds like a millionaire on this remix, in which Waxx replaces the sludgy vocal sample in the original with some of Doom's noir soundtrack bombast. [Umbilical Chord]

Piss Christ artist Andres Serrano's new show at Yvon Lambert Gallery is simply and appropriately titled "Shit," featuring 66 weirdly gorgeous photos of dooty produced by dogs, jaguars, bulls, and the artist himself. "I wanted to take a close-up look at shit," he told us last night at Bowery Hotel following a dinner in his honor. Why? Serrano gave us the straight poop.

So, are you over piss?
I was done with piss twenty years ago. It took me twenty years to realize that I had to do shit. It's funny because someone once asked where would I draw the line for myself, "What wouldn't you work with?" And I said I won't work with shit. That was many years ago. Now, I've realized that it makes sense. Not only was I meant to do this show, I was meant to do it the way that I've done it. I feel that I've done the definitive work on shit, and I feel very happy that I've claimed shit as my own.

Hailed variously as the heir to the Kurt Vonnegut legacy, a Joseph Heller for the 21st century, and a Thomas Pynchon for the post-nuclear era, Nick Harkaway has garnered enough accolades since his recent authorial debut to turn a creative-writing MFA grad green with envy (if they weren’t already, thanks to his legacy: He’s the son of author John Le Carre). Harkaway’s first book, The Gone-Away World, is a gripping, satirical, postapocalyptic war epic populated with mimes, ninjas, bureaucrats, chimera, and gun-toting nerds. Vulture sat down with Harkaway to discuss his reviews and his three rules of screenwriting.

"If it puts little plastic guitars into kids' hands and fires their imaginations, I think that's a good thing. It's harmless fun, innit. I'd rather that genre of video games than somebody getting their fucking head chopped off with a samurai sword while getting fucked by a goblin up the arse with a laser. Do you know what I mean?" —Noel Gallagher on Guitar Hero [Music Radar via Kotaku]

"I'll never forget watching a woman lose her mind in a subway station because the train was delayed. I vowed that I would never let myself become that woman. I think it only took a year before I was swearing violently at the empty tracks." —Kristen Schaal [Gothamist]

"30 Rock is a really funny show. And Alec Baldwin is funny as long as someone else is writing his words. When left to his own devices, he sounds like a psychotic narcissist who whines about being rich for 8 pages in The New Yorker." —Greg Garcia [Defamer]

"I do have a dream about winning [for best series] in Season 10 after losing nine seasons in a row." —Doug Ellin threatens us with six more seasons of Entourage [LAT]

"When we began, I assumed it'd take a miracle. There's not a huge talent pool of 18-year-olds who look 13 and Middle Eastern who can carry a movie. I just assumed we'd have to scour the globe (but) Summer was living in Pasadena!" —Alan Ball on casting the role of Jasira in Towelhead [Reuters]

Ludivine Sagnier first made waves Stateside with her revealing performance in François Ozon’s subtle 2003 thriller Swimming Pool. Although she'd already demonstrated her versatility in a number of films, including Ozon’s own 8 Women (2002), Pool made her a superstar — and suddenly the actress was seen as an international screen sex siren. So it may come as a surprise to some viewers to see Sagnier’s performance in Claude Miller’s powerful Holocaust drama A Secret, in which the actress plays a scorned Jewish wife suffering in silence while her husband makes doe eyes at a statuesque athlete (Cecile de France). The film, based on Phillipe Grimbert’s autobiographical novel, is a family drama structured like a mystery — and it all turns on Sagnier’s understated performance. Vulture caught up with the 29-year-old actress via phone from Paris.

You’ve played two very different roles in films released here in the last month: Claude Chabrol’s A Girl Cut in Two, in which you played a weathergirl who seduces two men, and now Claude Miller’s A Secret. Do you consciously seek out diverse parts, or is this just a coincidence?
No, it’s actually very planned. That’s how I like to play with cinema — the pleasure of my work is in the diversity of parts I can play, the diversity of universes I can inhabit. But I don’t usually choose a part. I usually choose a director first, and then I choose the part. And if I have to do a part that I feel I’ve done already, it’s a lot harder for me to get inspired.

Mickey Rourke is getting some of the best reviews of his life for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, in which he stars as a WWE-type gladiator twenty years past his prime. Reviews arriving from the Toronto Film Festival praise the movie itself but can't stop talking about Rourke: The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Farber calls it "a career-best performance" and "a winning tour de force"; Variety's Todd McCarthy does him one better, gushing "Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances." Wow! The film — in which Rourke's character, Randy "the Ram" Robinson, sets out to connect with daughter Evan Rachel Wood and stripper friend Marisa Tomei while mounting a return to the ring — is sparking buzz of a possible Oscar.

De Niro Tumbles Over Edge: After less than a week on set, Robert De Niro has peaced out from Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness, a drama starring Mel Gibson about an operative sent to clean up murder evidence. "Sometimes things don't work out; it's called creative differences," explained a spokesman for De Niro, shrugging it off with his best De Niro impression. [Variety]

Denzel Books Gig: Denzel Washington will topline Book of Eli, a "post-apocalyptic drama" to be directed by From Hell's Allen and Albert Hughes. Story follows a lone hero in a not-too-distant future who must fight his way across America because he alone knows the only thing that can save society. (Spoiler alert: it's Obama.) [Variety]

Hiring Spree: Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, and Steve Buscemi have joined Ron Livingston in Raul Sanchez Inglis's The Company Men, the story of a collapsing toy company. They might be redesigning their toys as weapons of war to win a huge defense contract and keep their company afloat, but not if Robin Williams has anything to say about it! [HR]