"[They're] idiot thugs with guitars ... Anyone from Smashing Pumpkins to – what's the one with Fred Durst?" --Iggy Pop

The punk legend told us all how he really felt about the state of rock recently when he accused Billy Corgan and Limp Bizkit of producing, in his words, "crappy music."

Ida Maria has a thing for older men -- or at least one older man in particular. She's crazy for James Osterberg Jr. -- better known as Iggy Pop.

"I would love to do a duet with Iggy Pop," the Norwegian rocker tells Spinner. "I'm kind of trying to get hold of him. I don't know who his manager is."

Maria saw Pop perform last summer and was so awestruck by his talent, she wanted to cancel her appearance later that night. "I was going to play a show after that, but I was so depressed," she says. "I played the show but I wasn't very happy about it."

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead at his Ann Arbor, Mich. home Tuesday morning. The official cause of death is not yet known, but it is believed the Asheton suffered a heart attack. Police discovered Asheton's body on a couch after his personal assistant had been unable to reach him for several days. He was 60.

"I am in shock," Stooges frontman Iggy Pop said in a statement. "He was my best friend."

Asheton, along with his brother Scott on drums, Pop and original bassist Dave Alexander, formed the Stooges in Detroit in 1967. They released two albums, 'The Stooges' and 'Fun House,' before Ron Asheton took over bass duties. As a guitarist, he created a bevy of iconic riffs, including those for 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and 'TV Eye.'

After the Stooges' initial split, Asheton played in several other bands, including the Wylde Ratttz, featuring Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis and Mike Watt. Watt joined Asheton once more when the Stooges reunited in 2003, and Asheton returned to his original place as Stooges guitarist on 2007's 'The Weirdness.'

On This Date in 1967: Iggy and the Stooges, billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, play their first show, at a Halloween party given at their house in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Almanac Advises for October 31: "Some churches and religious groups sponsor a Hell House on Halloween, in which they endeavor to scare all youngsters who enter it away from a life of sin."

On 'Lost,' little is known about Michael Emerson's sphinxlike character, Benjamin Linus. Once simply the ruthless and manipulative leader of the island's Others, viewers now aren't sure what to think of the man who warns against this season's impending rescue. Villian? Hero? Victim? Prophet? Only time will tell.

What we do know about Emerson is that he is an urbane, music-loving New Yorker who prefers the crossword to the surfboard while he's on location in Hawaii. "I'm like Woody Allen in the jungle," he told Jimmy Kimmel.

Spinner's spies have spotted him at a few rock shows around town including last summer's Television reunion at Central Park. Most recently, we spotted him at Town Hall, enjoying the lovely melodies and stage banter from the Magnetic Fields alongside wife and fellow actress Carrie Preston, who also played his mother on 'Lost' -- a situation he called a "Freudian nightmare."