Just like heaven: Friendster is good at weeding out fakers, so we were curious to find the Cure’s Robert Smith on the networking site – or is he? His friends are all just fans. His interest: “Avoiding girls named Elise.” About Me: “I was in that band.” And, whom does he want to meet?: “Just listen and you’ll figure it out.”

Silenced: “Fool’s Paradise,” a gritty, old-school rock show hosted by Rex on Saturday afternoons on WFMU (91.1 FM) is gone after six years. The station manager pulled the show, to bring in “new kids with CDs and MP3s and send the old noise and 45s down the road,” explained Rex, during his last show.

Fauxbrizio vs. Fabrizio: Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti and ex-Strokes drum tech Matt Romano are practically identicial twins, so angelfire.com/indie/mattromano/fauxbrizio.html sorts out the differences – the most important, perhaps, being that Matt’s from N.J. while Fab’s the “true Italian stallion.”

Connect the dots: Raul Malo of the Mavericks, at the Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday, was fed up: “Where does it say on your ticket you can scream a lot of crap at me? No more requests. You’re gonna get what you get and you’re gonna like it.” And incidentally, the crowd did.