His creaky run up the museum steps is over, leaving the hopes of fat guys in wifebeaters and chunky women in sweatpants dashed for that final bit of Rocky communion. His Adrian's sign has come down from Victor's—relieving the venerable opera cafe of further shouts of "yo, veal marsala's getting cold over heyah." Bye, Sylvester Stallone, till February 2007 when you screen Rocky Balboa. I wish we could say we hardly knew ye and your minion—the guys smoking De Nobilis, wearing two-tone sunglasses 'n' Members Only jackets. But I knew ye too much. The off-Jerry's Corner sex-club Pleasure Garden don't need no stinkin' badges—literally: Its body-part-waving opening night, Feb. 17, features a full monty all-dick striptease. And come Feb. 25? Live fucking (by employees only). YOWSAH! We know Seether's show at Electric Factory is sold out. But I have it on good authority Wind-Up label peeps'll shoot a video with the Seeth-ing ones at Grape Street Feb. 22 and that they want scads of barely clad babes to show to be shot. Or they just want women, ya know, to like them for who they are. WHOWHATWHERE: Screaming young girls at World Café Live—there for Love Monkey heartthrob Teddy Geiger and not, as rumored, sound guy Ben Edwards—got so goshdarned enthused, Geiger hid in WCL's kitchen until chased by a bartender. He later sat for autographs while the remaining women slobbered over Brandi Carlile. When not Wu-Tang Clan-ing at E-Factory, Method Man worked South Street hard—hanging at Ishkabibbles, popping into Fluid. What did Philly Roc-A-Fella Freeway give Dr. Keith Leaphart at his Dreemz b-day party? A performance of tracks off his due-soon, Free at Last. And how do you know you've made it big? When you get this note about Philly DJ Cosmo Baker: "In Store Appearance @ Cactus Records, 29 West Main Street, Bozeman, Montana. " Ray's Happy Birthday owner Lou Capp takes his sax-axe and blows down the Crystal Tea Room Feb. 19 for Souf Philly-ite Ralphie Head's Louis Prima show, 8:30 p.m. Capp tells me that Head's got a Dino and a Frankie impersonator coming by. Atza nize. Phashion week: Social Philly's Brett Silver, Rosie Kim and DJ Michael Anderer host Emerald City's two-day fashion show Feb. 18 to 19 with schtuff from FCUK and Five Oceans. We love the Walt Whitman-quoting blogger/axe-grinding ex-Kimmel Center booker (Jeff Parks?) behind thecityelectric.blogspot.com, the newest anti-Sean Agnew/anti-Bright Eyes/anti-indie greed site; "newest" because surely there's more sites than this. We don't know about the food, yet, at Shouk—Bainbridge Street's newest Israeli-chefed spot. But we like its Sheesa Lounge where big bongs—uh, water pipes—brew up tobacco via hot coals on low tables. After writing music for Koresh Dance Company, Eric Vincent's Curve Dominant Studio not only produced CDs from Naeemah Maddox (the goo-geous funk-popping Hard Time) and Greg DeCandia, aka G.Starr (his mad theatrical Hung on a Blonde Ponytail (An Act of Rock) based on his Fringe hit). Vincent's managing 'n' booking them to boot; first into Bar Noir Feb. 20, then Society Hill Playhouse Feb. 24 for Starr's CD's debut. "I discovered Naeemah and G.Starr on the same night at the same Fergie's Pub open mic—so it's sweetly apropos to see them perform together," says Vincent, who quickly found that they had something of a mutual admiration society going on and got them to play on each other's discs. "They're both fantastic in their own right, but there's something about the way their voices blend that just sounds classic." If you read the New York Post's Page Six Monday, you know you have to either lose weight (Virgin's forcing Janet Jackson to drop 20 before her CD comes out) or be not-so-gay (RCA's waiting for the Clay Aiken spooge rag controversy to pass) to getcher record out. What does that mean locally? We don't know what it means for Pink Skull (Julian S. Process, JG, DJ Diabolic) whose freakfunk Unicorn Harpoon (not on their BlastYrAkk debut) comes out Feb. 18 at The Khyber. But what of the evening's playmate, Space 1026's head-banded Thom Lessner and his rudely lyrical, aerobic-synth act Sweatheart, who drop their nards-dangling debut, So Cherri (produced by 19-year-old Julie Slick!) that night? "We wanna put on shows that make people cherish life," says Lessner before shooting a video for "Fingerbangin'" with Spankrock gal pal Amanda Blank. "We wanna make everybody horny, happy and wanna look good doing so." And what about Sean Kilroy who drops his new crude-electro CD, Thai Stick Dragon, at Five Spot Feb. 16? "I'm: A) pissing in a cup for my parole officer, and B) waiting on the results of a DNA test to make sure Jamie Mahon isn't my son," says Kilroy, who'll sound off while Uncut Productions show off their first music video for opening act Kandy Whales' "Monkey Drive." Will local morning show 10! snag NBC 10 hiree Lori Wilson as the host/replacement for Lauren Hart? I don't know this cuz I'm on the show. This is a guess. Besides, she's been the only of the few guest hosts they've had so far who's prettier than I. Know what I figured out about that "Coupling" feature in Philly Mag? They've turned poor Jessica Pressler into Erma Bombeck. Oh well. You want Songspot.org bookings? You got 'em: the power-popped complexity of Buy Star Bombs at North Star Feb. 17; the hardcore roar of New Aggres-sion at The Khyber Feb. 19. Tell me you don't want to play with home-taping guy Ariel Pink (www.arielpink.com), if just for a day? Tour publicist Katy Martineau (katy@fanaticpromotion.com) wants you to play, bring stuff, to his Feb. 25, Khyber gig. Write her, already.