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Erica Rose dishes on kissing Jake, a Vegas threesome with Vienna & Bachelor Pad2 secret plastic surgery

It was all about synchronized swimming on "Bachelor Pad 2".
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Erica Rose
Jake Pavelka
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Photo by Greg Zabilski/ABC
Photo by Greg Zabilski/ABC

We hadn't seen much of Houston's own infamous Erica Rose on Bachelor Pad 2, but that changed in a major way in the third episode Monday night. Suddenly, the so-far unnaturally quiet reality starlet was all over the game — and all over fellow contestant and former Bachelor Jake Pavelka.

Although the cast was back in bikinis first thing following a humiliating bikini incident for Rose last week, things went decidedly better for her this time around (and the guys were relegated to teeny Speedos for the synchronized swimming competition, which helped to level the playing — and posing — field.)

When she wasn't toe-ing Jake's shorts or participating in sexy strategery, Rose was delivering some memorable quotes that support her self-proclaimed role as this season's comic relief.

Choice quotes:

"The closest thing I've done to synchronized swimming is laying out." - Erica Rose

"Jake should win this competition alone just because he has such a big package." - Erica Rose

"[Vienna] is more of a fame whore than Jake is." - Kasey Kahl (Vienna's boyfriend)

"I get that he physically and mentally abused you, but that was a year ago; get over it. Do you know what I've been through?" - Kasey Kahl

"I definitely have good lips that I maintain by getting injections every six months." - supposedly plastic surgery-free Erica Rose

"I don't trust Melissa as far as I can throw her. And even though she's really tiny, that's not very far." - Erica Rose

"Let me guess, they're being mean?" - Jake Pavelka, to a violently weeping Melissa

"I'm gonna manipulate her a little bit, and ignore the fact that she's crazy." - Erica Rose, on Melissa

"You should be ashamed of yourself." - Vienna Girardi, to current BFF Erica Rose

"It's time for order to be restored in this house" - Erica Rose, with her new choice prop — a tiny crystal gavel — as she hammered on the voting box

"I don't think Vienna and Kasey are good people, and they're not even cute" - Erica Rose

Cheesy moments:

Brett Michaels suddenly appearing and serenading Holly and Michael with "Every Rose has its Thorns," the smack-you-over-the-head imagery of which, as Holly fingered a long-stemmed red rose, was just. too. much.

Kasey singing a song to Vienna that was either made up or butchered beyond all recognition. Something about loving you, you know I do when you're blue, let's go screw. Or something. Suddenly we found ourselves wondering how much camera-guy laughter has to be edited out.

Status update:

We chatted with Rose Tuesday afternoon, just after she touched down in Houston from an exclusive Los Angeles viewing party. It was the first time she'd been face to face with Pavelka since filming, and although she says the two are still flirtatious, things are a little awkward.

"Obviously I think he's gorgeous and can't help but be attracted to him," Rose says, and calls Pavelka "definitely the most attractive guy I've ever kissed, hands down."

But revelations about what went down during filming have made things a mite tense between the on-camera paramours. "I didn't know he had been upset about some things," Rose says, "it was hard to talk at the party."

And Pavelka's not the only castmate Rose has kept contact with. She's still friends with cry-happy couple Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl — the threesome were in Las Vegas together just last weekend — and Rose was, as we spoke, picking up another unnamed cast member for a visit to the offices of her father, Dr. Franklin Rose.

"She wants to get her breasts done and possibly her nose," Rose reveals. A People magazine feature on that procedure should be on supermarket shelves soon.

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Quirky Houston DJ drops genre-blending mix CD inspired by video games

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DJ Squincy Jones

If you’re the type of person who has dubstep, Southern hip-hop, and Koji Kondo’s iconic “Ground Theme” from Super Mario Bros. in your streaming-music library, then Squincy Jones has created the perfect playlist for you..

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DJ Squincy Jones

Super Nintendub is the name of the mix where the Houston-born-and-bred DJ mashes up all those aforementioned music genres. A capella bars from Houston heavyweights (Megan Thee Stallion, Paul Wall) and other Dirty South MCs (Three 6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG) gets laid over grooves from underground dubstep artists (Numa Crew, Blay Vision, Hamdi). But we also get music from various Nintendo (Castlevania III, Ninja Gaiden) and Super Nintendo (Super Mario World, Final Fantasy VI) games. Jones also throws in audio samples from commercials and gaming-heavy movies like WarGames, The Wizard, and the Adam Sandler-produced Grandma’s Boy.

Needless to say, Jones has always been a gamer. He’s had his run of game systems: NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, even the old-school Atari 2600. He recalls his days blowing the dust out of such cartridges as Contra, Double Dragon, and Duck Hunt. In the past, Jones has released a series of mashup mixes – titled Blend Pack – with cover art that resembles/salutes classic video games.

“I'm a huge fan of all the eight-bit and 16-bit stuff,” says Jones (government name: Shane Rector), 41. “I play a lot of the new games, or I have played a lot of the new games, but not as much anymore. You know, being a parent and having a full-time job – you don't really have time for video games anymore.”

Super Nintendub is a sequel to Nintendub, a dubstep mix he played during a party way back in 2008. “I added some a capellas, [like] a Bun B a capella,” he recalls. “I had some other Dirty South tunes from the time. I layered them because they're at the same tempo as dubstep. Another friend that does music gave me a folder of Nintendo songs. So, I just randomly layered it on top and kinda slowed down the Nintendo music, and it sounded cool as hell to me.”

The mix picked up fans overseas when he dropped it online. “I've always wanted to make a follow-up to it because I got so much good feedback,” he remembers. “People from all over were writing about it."

Jones decided to release Super on compact disc, sold in rectangular keep cases – packaging that’s very familiar to gamers – with double-sided artwork also by Jones. (A digital link is available upon request to those who buy the CD.) While the limited-edition disc is available for purchase on Jones’s Bandcamp page, the CD mix shouldn’t be confused with the Super mix that’s currently playing on the page.

“I wanted to have them in the mix as well,” he says. “But I'm not entirely, you know, confident with my production skills. So, I just kinda had it on the side to go along with the release of this mix.”

Since releasing Super in September, Jones says he’s gotten good feedback from those who’ve bought a copy. “Because it looks like a video game,” he says, “a lot of people are like, ‘Oh, cool! Is it an actual game or an actual DVD or whatnot?’ But it's always hit or miss because some people are like, ‘Oh, man, I don't have a CD player’ or "Wow, you actually printed a CD,’ because everything's, you know, digital.”

He’s looking into playing a big-screen version of Super, where videos of the rap songs are spliced in with video-game footage and other retro clips, somewhere around here. “I was thinking like either a movie theater or somebody mentioned Aurora Picture Show, or maybe Wonky Power, to do like a viewing or showing or whatever – kind of have a party for it.”

Even though Jones enjoys merging gaming and music – his dual obsessions – he still prefers to be known as more than a video-game DJ. A veteran of the Houston DJ scene for a quarter of a century, he continues to do gigs like his upcoming monthly residency at Eight Row Flint.

“I do open-format DJing,” he says. “I've done raves and dubstep parties. I've played on the radio. I've played at Mid Main, where it’s a mainstream crowd. In this day and age, everybody has their branding or whatnot. I just love video games, so I just kind of take that as my branding, I guess.”

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