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Boy wanted again

But not for his tunes or tasteful head makeup. No, this time Boy George is wanted for not showing up at a court appearance to explain why he wants to change his sentence for falsely reporting a burglary. Seems some dope was found in his apartment at the time. Tsk, tsk. Boy suggested that he do some community service, including “a proposal to hold a fashion-and-makeup workshop.” Jesus, the last thing anyone anywhere would need would be a dope-addled goofball’s fashion and makeup advice. I mean, c’mon. Any guy who walks around looking like he spraypainted his head and then melted a few candles on top of it doesn’t need to be giving fashion advice. String ’em up.

I wasn’t aware he still had a career

Ruben Studdard was recently awarded $2 million from his ex-manager. Apparently the dude misappropriated funds and credit cards. I can’t even believe Studdard made that much money to begin with. You can be sure, though, that someday VH-1 will do another “Super Group” show that collects “American Idol” has-beens and puts ’em all together for one big gig and album. 10 to 20 years from now. Just wait.

From “Straight Edge” to “So Far From The Edge Of Straight That You Can’t Even SEE Straight”

Rufus Wainwright – son of Loudon III, brother to Martha – has once again embraced his total and utter gayness (not that there’s anything wrong with that) by paying tribute to Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall…but, oh, what a tribute!

According to Playbill.com, “complete with a 40-piece orchestra, Wainwright recreates the original April 23, 1961, concert she performed at the height of her late career. ‘The greatest single night in show business,’ as it was called, featured Garland singing 26 standards, show stoppers and songs from her films. Wainwright performs his own interpretations of the songs — not mimicking Garland — over the same orchestrations.”

The number of show tunes performed by Wainwright over the course of the evening would make any straight man in the audience go gay before intermission, let alone the end of the night…and, yet, damn, as a Wainwright fan, I gotta say, I really hope they release a CD or DVD of the evening.

To counteract this post, I’m now going to go watch a John Wayne movie and embrace my heterosexuality.

To be Straight Edge…

Or not. I choose not, and I suggest you do the same. In the meantime, you can check out this straight edger’s site, filled with all the usual “we’re better than everyone else” philosphical bullshit just because they choose not to drink, drug, smoke, or have sex (plenty of MEAT IS MURDER banners on there). Yes, let’s embrace punk rock and hardcore and abstain from everything related to rock and roll itself. Makes sense to me! If you werelistening to that bland white bread Christian rawk bullshit, that is.

Ron Wood goes into rehab

It about time, too. Wood’s entered rehab for his boozing. He was on the wagon for a while – no really, he was – and just decided to fall off it again, it seems. part of his decision has been pointed at worrying about Keith Richards, who as you may recall was recently hospitalized for falling out of a tree, which required some pressure splitting from his skull. No word yet if any of this kind of fun shit will make good fodder for Mick Jagger’s forthcoming sitcom.

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