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Damn. I was hoping it was just my TV.

I cannot BELIEVE that ABC censored the Stones during their Super Bowl performance…but I’m not entirely shocked. We were sitting around, eating chili and beef barbeque, and my buddy Jim said, “Did they just mute Mick on the line, ‘You’d make a dead man come’?!?”

The answer, apparently, was “yes.” They also turned the volume down during “Rough Justice” – and kudos, by the way, on sneaking a song from the new album, A Bigger Bang, into the mix – when Jagger used the word “cock.”

No shock here: Mick’s mad. A spokesperson for the NFL, however, says that it was discussed with the band beforehand, so maybe it’s just senility kicking in…

She’s clean again

Courtney Love is clean and sober. Yes, now let’s all hold our breath. Shouldn’t take too long. She’s been working on new songs with Billy Corgan again as well. I suppose after that last stinkfest she released flopped (and after all that bitching about file-sharing, too), she decided to get it together again until the next tour. Gee, Courtney, I hope you won’t get too pissy if I don’t trust you anymore and do download your new shit before I decide to buy it. I’m sure you can break a few of Frances Bean’s piggy banks in the meantime, if you haven’t already smashed them all.

Teaching about opera=Satan worship

Ya gotta love rednecks, as they’re truly all over the place. In Colorado, a teacher who was teaching elementary schoolers about opera has come under fire for showing classes a video discussing “Faust”. God forbid. The video even included puppets, but the local community was outraged with one parent going so far to say that perhaps even high schoolers shouldn’t be taught about the opera due to its “Satanic” links. The teacher has apparently also been branded as a Satan worshipper for her actions. When the fuck are certain people in this nation going to get over this devil bullshit? It’s an opera! Fuck Satan. I personally find it offensive that so many choose to remain so backwoods and ignorant. Jesus saves indeed.

What I really need to do is find myself a brand new monkey

After enraging his UK Celebrity Big Brother housemates–not to mention PETA sympathizers everywhere–by claiming his coat was made from the fur of endangered gorillas, former Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns has been proven wrong.

The coat is not made of endangered gorilla fur. The coat is made of colobus monkey fur…which has been illegal to import to Britain since 1975, so Pete’s coat was confiscated for analysis to determine its age (and Pete’s further legal ramifications, if any).

Well, turns out Pete won’t be moving from the Big Brother house to the Big House just yet: the Crown Prosecutors Service indicated that “judging by its poor condition…the pelts had likely been imported sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.”

Is anyone else grossed out by the idea of wearing 75-year-old dead monkey skins on their back?

I mean, I know vintage is the new black, and all, but, dude, seriously: Buy yourself a new coat. That’s just nasty.

Like video? Love this

i dunno how long the site’s been around, but I was just introduced to it last night, so forgive me once again if I’m slightly behind the curve. But for all those of you who like interesting video clips – including an array of rare music videos – check out You Tube. At first glance it just looks like a dumping ground for kids to put up their lame homemade vids, but use the search engine and magic can happen before your eyes. I found a shitload of vintage Captain Beefheart clips, and some killer Frank Zappa vids, including one from the ’80s when he was on “Crossfire” and duked it out with some old do-gooders who would have liked nothing more than to have Prince’s “Darlin’ Nikki” banished forever. I miss Frank. The man wwas always ahead of his time, and that appearance just furthered the notion more. Anyway, You Tube allows users to upload videos as well (making sure to mention that they not upload any “copyrighted material,” but alas this is what the site thrives on. You just have to cover your ass anymore. Another fine way to kill evn more hours online.

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