Ah, Boy George, you poor bastard…
The man named by his mother as George O’Dowd has begun his community service task: cleaning up the streets of New York.
Predictably, the media is all over George as he goes about his court-required civic duty, leading him to yell out such comments as, “”You think you’re better than me? Go home. This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this. I just want to do my job.”
Gosh, I remember when it was his job to look like this…
How times change…
As if Meat Loaf’s upcoming Bat Out Of Hell III wasn’t enough, Elton John will also be going back to the well for a sequel to his classic 1975 album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Due for release on September 19th, the disc’s first single, “The Bridge,” will be available for download via iTunes on August 22nd.
What a nice birthday present, Elton! You are just so sweet…
…or listen to James Blunt sing “You’re Beautiful” just one more time?
It’s a tough call, isn’t it? Hard to find the upside in either one…and yet, in a poll conducted by London tabloid The Mirror, a majority of UK music fans voted James Blunt more annoying than stepping in dog poo, suffering from heat rash, and having a bad hair day — among many, many other things.
Click here for the full list of items the Brits find less annoying than James Blunt … and watch where you step.
Huzzah to Donna Da Iguana for introducing us to The Superficial. It’s just like Defamer, only less chatty. And, like Defamer, they love the rack. I know, I know, who doesn’t? Especially Jessica Simpson’s, when it’s popping through her dress?
“Man, have you tried that sudoku game? It’s HARD.”
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And the joke this time – and a not very funny one, at that – is that, for the third time, Elvis Costello’s early catalog…his first 11 albums, to be specific…are being reissued, this time by Universal Music Enterprises. Shockingly, although the albums were previously put out in special editions by Rykodisc and Rhino (the latter including an entire second disc’s worth of bonus tracks), Universal assures us that these will be the “definitive reissues.”
Backed into a corner, Costello admitted he’d spent the money from the Rykodisc and Rhino reissues maintaining his nasty Faberge Egg habit.
Equally, I can assure Universal that, although I have all of Elvis’s albums (and, quite frankly, have had no real aversion to sticking with the Ryko reissues of those initial 11 albums, bonus disc or not) and have seen him live multiple times, there’s just no way in Hell that I’m going to buy these things again.
By the way, the above lyric is from Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ “It’s Time,” from All This Useless Beauty, an album not included in the reissues. (It’s from 1996.) Still, it was that or once again use Morrissey’s all-too-apropros line, “Reissue, repackage, repackage…”
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