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"1. Get The Simpsons on your cell phone with the Jamster Simpsons Yellow Plan. The Simpsons on your cell phone? Yep, thanks to this cool new package from Jamster, you can have mobile games, screensavers, ringtones, wallpapers and voice tones, all featuring your favorite members of the Simpson family. The coolest part: The content will be updated regularily, with even more cool features being added monthly. For just $9.99 per month, you get to choose any six features for your phone! Among the current picks, there&amp;#039;s Homer&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Spider Pig&amp;quot; song from The Simpsons Movie (that&amp;#039;s been stuck in our head for weeks!), Homer&amp;#039;s Mr. Plow jingle, The Simpsons theme song and the cool &amp;quot;Minutes to Meltdown&amp;quot; mobile game. Check it out now at  TheSimpsonsMobile.com. PS \u2013 Check out our WIN section next week because the very generous folks at Jamster and LG phones have teamed up to give EIGHT very, very lucky winners six months of free Jamster Yellow Plan service AND one of the hottest cell phones around, the LG V Cast!! 2. Jam on your (virtual) guitar! Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80s (RedOctane) Who doesn&amp;#039;t love the Guitar Hero games? Seriously, even real rock stars admit to being hooked on the game and playing it every chance they get on their tour busses! For the rest of us, it&amp;#039;s a chance to live out our rock star fantasies, and just tons of fun, too! This latest version just adds to that fun with a whole collection of retro &amp;#039;80s tunes, including The Go-Gos&amp;#039; &amp;quot;We Got the Beat,&amp;quot; Quiet Riot&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;(Bang Your Head) Metal Health,&amp;quot; Twisted Sister&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;I Wanna Rock&amp;quot; and Poison&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Nothin&amp;#039; But a Good Time.&amp;quot; Bonus: You even get to play as your favorite Guitar Hero character, decked out in the oh-so-fabulous &amp;#039;80s-friendly Spandex. Nice. PS \u2013 The Wii version of Guitar Hero hits stores later this year, so save a space for it on your Santa wish list! Check it out now at  Guitarhero.com. 3. Sing and dance with The King! Lights, Camera, Elvis! DVD Box Set (Paramount Home Video) Before there was Zac Efron and the singin&amp;#039;, dancin&amp;#039; Wildcats gang of High School Musical movies, there was The King, Elvis Presley, who, in addition to recording dozens of the best songs in music history, also made some pretty rockin&amp;#039; movies. Now, we&amp;#039;ll warn you: These aren&amp;#039;t exactly Oscar-level flicks here; though Elvis was actually a talented actor, his manager steered him towards projects that would show off his singing talents, and that led to a string of beach-n-babes movies that often found Elvis singing to girls. He was as swoon-worthy as our modern-day hero, Mr. Efron, though, and this collection of some of Elvis&amp;#039; most fun comedies \u2013 including Blue Hawaii, Paradise Hawaiian Style, G.I. Blues and Girls! Girls! Girls! - are a must see, especially as this week marks the 30th anniversary of Elvis&amp;#039; sad August 16, 1977 death.  Check it out now at  Shopelvis.com. 4. Bake a batch of super-sweet goodness! Mini Oreo Surprise Cupcakes Okay, seriously: Oreos, cupcakes . . . the goodness is right there in the title, is it not? These very easy-to-whip-up cupcakes have very few ingredients (chocolate cake mix, Cool Whip, mini Oreos, cream cheese, sugar and an egg), don&amp;#039;t require any fancy equipment and can be made in less than an hour - which puts them at the top of our list as the perfect back-to-school/end-of-summer party treat! Make a bunch for your friends and fam, or better yet, invite your pals over and make several batches for a final summer beach blowout - if you can wait that long to eat them, of course. Check out the recipe now at  Food.yahoo.com. 5. Paint like a master! You Can Paint Like Van Gogh, illustrated by Amy Runyen (Walter Foster). What a clever little painting kit! As the title suggests, the kit CAN help you brush up (pun intended!) on your painting skills, with a collection of goodies that come in a paint can-shaped package. We love it! The kit includes everything you need to paint a copy of Vincent Van Gogh&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Starry Night&amp;quot;, including a 16-page paperback project booklet, two paintbrushes, a paint palette, eight acrylic paint pots, and three preprinted art papers, all housed in a nifty little plastic paint can. And at just $12.95, you can afford to pick up the You Can Paint Like Monet, too! Check it out now at  Walterfoster.com. 6. Make your own desk toys! Readymechs! This is simple enough: Print out these cool, origami-like toys (known as &amp;quot;Mechtoys&amp;quot;), fold them and \u2013 like magic \u2013 you&amp;#039;ve got a groovy desk toy! Think of them like paper Transformers, and a really fun craft, which could come in handy for those babysitting jobs you have lined up! For more fun, try printing them out on a color printer, or on cardstock paper, to make more permanent doodads. Extra tip: Wouldn&amp;#039;t these make fun gift tags or mini greeting cards for your pals? Check them out now at  Readymech.com. 7. Some Mad Hope by Matt Nathanson (Vanguard) Who&amp;#039;s the cutie with the voice (and the eyes) like John Mayer? It&amp;#039;s Matt Nathanson, who just keeps getting better and better with every new album. This latest disc finds the sensitive singer/songwriter rocking out a bit more, but we have to confess that&amp;#039;s it&amp;#039;s those softer, heartfelt tunes we love most, like &amp;quot;Bullet Proof Weeks&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;All We Are.&amp;quot; But the peppier &amp;quot;Car Crash&amp;quot; is also already one of our faves (and stuck in our head), too, which makes this CD one of our overall favorites of the summer. Consider adding it to your playlist \u2013 it&amp;#039;ll be soothing during those first stressful back-to-school days! Check it out now at  Amazon.com. 8. Learn how to write your own novel! TeenHarperFanLit.com  You&amp;#039;ve read a zillion young adult novel, right? Have you ever thought of writing your own? Is that actually your dream job? Teen Harper, the teen imprint of HarperCollins, has published some of the all-time greatest books for teens, and they know that the way to keep turning out great books is to help new writers find their voices. This Website is devoted to hooking aspiring writers up with the tools and resources they need to become those great writers of the future. Join (membership is free!) and you get access to author interviews, forums where you can talk with other aspiring writers, forums where you can share your writing and get feedback, writing tips, the scoop from published authors on the writing process and what it&amp;#039;s like to be published, a blog and info on new releases. Check it out, and remember, we knew you before you were a world famous author!  Check it out now at  TeenHarperFanLit.com 9. High School Musical 2 (Aug. 17, 8 p.m., Disney Channel) Like we really have to tell you about this premiere, right? We thought we&amp;#039;d remind you just in case \u2013 the Wildcats gang is back (finally!) in this sequel that finds them getting out of school for the summer just as many of you are heading back. After the opening musical number that sets Troy, Gabriella and their friends free from the halls of East High, Troy lands a job at a country club, which is part of Sharpay&amp;#039;s plot to snag him away from Gabriella. Too bad for her that Troy also secures jobs for his friends, including Gabriella! Never count Sharpay out, of course, as she&amp;#039;ll just find new ways to stir up trouble! We probably also don&amp;#039;t have to tell you that things end well, right?  PS \u2013 The premiere of the new movie also means the premiere of the HSM2 soundtrack this week, and it&amp;#039;s every bit as good as the original soundtrack. Yay!  Check it out now at  TV.disney.go.com. 10. Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County (Aug. 15, 10:30 p.m., MTV) The names and faces and even the town have changed, but don&amp;#039;t worry, the drama is still at a very respectable level as the Laguna Beach kids are replaced by the Newport Harbor kids in this MTV spin-off series. Among the teens whose lives we&amp;#039;ll follow: popular, smart senior Chrissy, who may finally find romance with shy BMOC Clay, and former best friends Chase and Grant, who are constantly butting heads over Chase&amp;#039;s on-again, off-again girlfriend Taylor. Will these new &amp;quot;characters&amp;quot; have us as hooked as LC, Kristin, Tessa, Cami, Cameron, Stephen, Jason and the rest of the LB-ers? Our guess is yes! Check it out now at  MTV.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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