John Mayer Visits Tim Burton Exhibit at Museum of Modern Art

We could have spent a week at Tim Burton‘s new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.

Especially since it was the site where we ran into our favorite singer-songwriter and David Letterman rock god John Mayer!

Mayer told Poison Ivy that he sincerely enjoyed the exhibit, and asked if we’d be blogging about his appearance there.

“Can you tell everyone that I’m a captivating guy?” he joked. “Also, taller in person.”

Yes, Mayer was both tall and captivating, but before anything, a nice dude!!

We were relieved – we’d heard otherwise – and still have been worshiping his music, especially latest record Battle Studies.

The Burton exhibit was everything we hoped for and more.

Burton original paintings (like “Blue Girl With Wine,” pictured above) hung on the walls next to hand-drawn sketches of Edward Scissorhands and collectibles from Burton’s flicks.

Items included everything from the metal razors from Sweeney Todd to the Catwoman suit from Batman Returns to the headless horseman cape from Sleepy Hollow!

And of course, the room was filled with bizarre pieces like “funhouse panels,” handwritten poems with figurines, and Burton’s signature black and white swirls.

The exhibit will be available until April 26, 2010, so be sure to check it out!

John Mayer Gets Intimate at Live Letterman Set

“I’ve been up since three in the morning,” says John Mayer. He’s speaking to a handful of American Express cardmembers who purchased tickets to see Mayer perform an intimate, hour-long “Live at Letterman” set on CBS Thursday night, but Mayer wants us to know he’s not complaining.

“Being up this long allows you to have as much fun as possible,” he adds, then catapulting into “Perfectly Lonely,” a plucky blues ballad off his latest release, Battle Studies.

Mayer soaked the hour up with tons of Studies tunes – “Heartbreak Warfare,” “Friends, Lovers or Nothing,” Poison Ivy favorite “Half of My Heart,” and the controversial “Who Says,” which Mayer tried to clear up with a Boyz II Men comparison.

“Is ‘I’ll Make Love To You’ about making babies?” he asked the audience. “Not unless you’re trying to make babies.”

“It’s not [about making babies] if you’re listening to it while you wash your car,” he laughed.

Mayer didn’t venture too far back into his 10-year catalog – sticking to mainly Studies tunes and two songs off of 2006’s Continuum: “Gravity” and “Waiting on the World to Change.”

But we were ever impressed with his melodic finesse and comedic ability!

He even managed to throw a couple seconds of Jay-Z‘s “Empire State of Mind” into the bridge of “Who Says”!

Check out a glimpse we snuck of Mayer performing an extended version of “Friends, Lovers or Nothing,” above.