Internet Recommendations of the Week by Doug T. Graham Verge Reporter

Feature pick: Josh Freese and the 11 ways to buy his album

Ever wanted to pay $75,000 for a music CD? Josh Freese, a 36-year-old career musician who has worked on over 300 albums, hopes that you do!

Taking a page from Nine Inch Nails, a band he was in for three years, Freese has given his fans plenty of choices when it comes to buying his new album. Nine Inch Nails’ 200-album “—-” let the fans name the price they wanted to pay for the album, even if the price was $0.00. Freese knows that model wouldn’t work in today’s economy but has kept with the freedom of choice theme by bundling his album in 11 different packages in prices ranging from $7 to $75,000!

Don’t think that you are getting the raw deal, though, should you choose to invest your $75,000 because it will get you far. You will receive:

- Signed CD/DVD and digital download

- T-shirt

- Go on tour with Josh for a few days.

- Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.

- Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)

- Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.

- Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….

- If you don’t have a band, he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (four-day work weeks, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

- Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)

- If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.

- Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN (Nine Inch Nails), go back to Robin’s place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.

Be sure to visit the Web site if you want to buy the album, but have no desire to sell your house to obtain it!

Video Pick 1: The Colonial Theatrical Trailer

It is rare that I take time on this blog to highlight the work of already established entertainers, but this week both of my videos feature big celebrities.

This first video is Mel Gibson flexing his comedic muscles in a segment recorded for Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show. The vid is a mock theatrical trailer for a movie called “The Colonel” a movie starring Gibson as a Civil War era Colonel Sanders (the KFC guy) hell-bent on killing chickens. The video is absolutely pitch perfect in its presentation, using all of the traditional movie trailer clichés. Gibson is so much fun to watch as he grumbles out bad ass lines like “Kentucky’s gonna fry tonight,” and “We’re gonna need a bigger bucket.”

Best part: At 1:20, Colonel Sanders walks in on his daughter fraternizing with a chicken. His daughter says in a southern drawl “but I love him, Pa!” to which Sanders responds, with madness in his eyes, “Well love him then-” he raises his rifle, “in HELL!”

Video Pick 2: Kate Winslet wants an Oscar

This one minute video is taken from Ricky Gervais’s BBC show called “Extras,” which features Gervais (who is the creator of the BBC version of “the Office”) playing the role of a no-name actor who is stuck being an extra on movie sets. The funniest part of the show, and essentially what it is built around, are the guest stars that play exaggerated versions of themselves whom Gervais always ends up interacting with and in the process gets them to say some hilarious things.

The episode this clip is taken from is one that finds Gervais on the set of a Holocaust movie where he runs into Kate Winslet, who proceeds to tell him that the only reason why she is doing the role is to get an Oscar.

Last Sunday at the 81st Academy Awards, Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her performance in a movie about, of all things, the Holocaust.

Best Part: At 26 seconds, Winslet says, “I mean I don’t really think we need another film about the Holocaust. It’s like, how many have there been?” I really hope that they watched this video while on the set of the Holocaust movie for which she won the award. Oh the sweet, sweet irony.