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“Snoopy go home,” say Brits

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been denied a British visa, which in turn has wreaked havoc upon his plans for a European tour. According to a representative for Snoop, the rapper is “mystified at the decision” and hopes the British government will reconsider.

Hmmm: mystified, huh? Let us help clear things up for you, Snoop. Remember that time you were arrested at John Wayne Airport for trying to carry a collapsible baton on board a plane? Not smart. Oh, and also? That time you were arrested at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on suspicion of carrying marijuana AND a handgun? Yeah, the British tend to frown on that, too. I know, they’re hopelessly uptight, but what can you do? It’s their country, and you have to respect their cultural differences. Racist bastards.

Durst wants the Bizkit!

Since I’m not sure if people can view such things in MySpace without an account, I’m just copying and pasting this hilarious shit from Fred Durst on the band’s blog there. If you’re having a crappy day, just read this and remember Fred’s days are a thousand times worse than anything you’re going through. Aw yeah.

Friday, March 16, 2007

tour

i really want to do a limp bizkit tour. not just any tour. one that is monumental. a landmark event. i would love to do a tour with the ORIGINAL limp bizkit. john, sam, wes, me, and lethal. that’s what i truly want. i miss touring SO FUCKING BAD. the feeling we have on stage as limp bizkit is like no other feeling i have ever had and no other feeling has been so rewarding. wouldn’t that be fantastic? wouldn’t it be a blessing? imagine that me and wes could work things out together and be a band again, friends again. fucking imagine that!! we had so many wonderful times. so many magically unforgettable moments. i am proud to say that i have learned so much from my mistakes and it has taken a long time to evolve to this place where i finally let myself be healed. without limp bizkit i would have never gotten here. without wes i wouldn’t know what it is like to work with the best. without john i wouldn’t know how to protect my family. without sam i wouldn’t have ever learned to trust anyone. without lethal i would have never been house of pain and without house of pain i would be missing too much of my inspiration. the list goes on and on and on. i just want to say that limp bizkit is my life whether i am holding onto the past or pushing for the future. imagine how impossible i am to deal with. that alone fueled many of the fires. when i look back i can only study and learn. so here we are NOW. i want limp bizkit. always. that is what i want. i want it so bad. wouldn’t that just be the absolute
best? it is time!!!!!!!!!!!!! now!!!!!!!!!!!!! rock and roll is not rock and roll without the pain we experience along the way. today is another day. today can be the day. what if we could just let the drama go and rock the fuck out because we can and because that is what we do? i listent to all the limp albums all of the time and i get so mental and emotional. it tears my heart in half the same time it makes my adrenaline boil. i live it. we all live it. all of us. i want limp bizkit.

as for your madness on here….lighten the fuck up. or don’t. either way you will always be heard and understood. we connect with all of you. you connect with all of us. we know you’re pain. you must know ours. there is no right and there is no wrong, but there is limp bizkit. so don’t you worry your precious little minds when there is silence. remember there is always a calm before any storm. put your energy into wanting the bizkit as bad as we do and something is bound to provide for us all. have some faith. now turn it the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love,
fred

More industry money grubbing

Enjoying your XM radio that can also store songs you hear on the service and play them back in mp3 playlists? Excellent! Not so excellent for XM, however as the National Music Publishers’ Association is suing the company for “providing radios that allegedly let users reproduce and distribute copyrighted music without paying appropriate royalties.” If it’s not one thing, it’s another. The RIAA also filed a similar suit a while back. Per the article,

An XM spokesman said it pays royalties to writers and composers who are also compensated by its device manufacturers and that it was confident it would prevail and the lawsuit was without merit.

As Paul Westerberg once sang, “I hate music…sometimes I don’t.”

Aaron Sorkin sees giant pink robots on Broadway

…and for once, it’s not the hallucinogens talking. We think.

In one of the oddest pairings we’ve seen in quite some time, Sorkin will team up with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to turn the Lips’ album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots into a Broadway musical:

Sorkin’s reps confirmed on Tuesday (March 20) that the West Wing creator has officially signed on to write the musical’s script. ”Maybe that means they’ll need to build a stage with lots of hallways on it,” joked Coyne of Sorkin’s fondness for walking-and-talking characters. ”It will be a giant tube that’s always moving!” [,,,]

Coyne compares the proposed concept to Terry Gilliam’s dystopian sci-fi movie Brazil. ”There’s the real world and then there’s this fantastical world,” explains Coyne. ”This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.”

Hmmmm: beats the hell out of a bunch of singin’ cats, dontcha think?

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