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Only The Nose knows!

Did Ashlee Simpson have a nose job or not? She’s not saying, but speculation on the Internet leans towards “yes.” For me, it’s hard to say. I can’t really tell as to my eyes, that goddamn nose is still getting in the way. Not that it matters at all. I’m sure if she had a nose job, it would be because she thought it would help her voice…and all that other shit. Perhaps if she just gave up singing altogether she’d be worry-free of her performance problems.

Great White continues touring, but their tour manager…? Not so much.

Three years later, someone’s finally paying for the nightclub fire during a Great White concert that led to the deaths of 100 people…and it’s the band’s tour manager.

Daniel Biechele pled guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter and, as a result, received 15 years in prison…but with all but four years suspended. “The greatest sentence that can be imposed upon you has been imposed upon you by yourself,” Superior Court Judge Francis Darigan told Biechele, according to the Associated Press.

I can see where family members would say that four years isn’t nearly enough for all the deaths that resulted from the band’s pyrotechnics, but Biechele is, as was noted by his attorney during the proceedings, the only one who’s been willing to stand up and admit that he had a hand in what happened…unlike the guys who installed the flammable soundproofing material at the club, who’ve pled not guilty from the get-go.

Time to hock some of those diamonds

Hey, whoa, time out!

With all the goings-on in his life lately, it apparently just slipped Kanye West’s mind to return the Mercedes Benz he’s been leasing, now that the lease has expired.

Um…is this actually the best the gossip hounds can come up with on Kanye? So he forgot to turn in the Benz. Like the guy doesn’t have the money to pay for it…? The bill was probably paid within ten minutes of this story hitting the wire.

Mark E. Smith disgruntled? I don’t believe it.

Mark E. Smith, lead singer and songwriter of the Fall, has been through so many band members over the years that he really should just go ahead and install a revolving door at the group’s headquarters…but this latest development is a hell of a thing, even for him.

First off, three members of the band – guitarist Ben Pritchard, bassist Steve Trafford and drummer Spencer Birtwhistle – quit the band after the Fall’s May 7th show in Phoenix, AZ…a show which, as it happens, ended abruptly when Justin Williams, the lead singer of the opening band on the tour (the Talk), threw a banana peel at Smith.

Williams said, on the Talk’s MySpace page, “MARK E. SMITH a.k.a MR. BURNS has managed to piss off his band so bad they quit and left him in america with his crazy wife slash one fingered keyboard player. MARK pulled a corkscrew on his bass player poured beer and ashed on the head of his tour manager while driving (who has also quit the tour) and played only one full set without slithering off stage to his R.V. to dive into a bottle of scotch.”

Shockingly, the Fall’s official website announced after the show that the Talk’s services as openers would no longer be required on the tour…but, yes, the tour is continuing. Smith’s already gotten replacement players. Given his tendency to kick members of the Fall to the curb on a seemingly-daily basis, I have to presume he keeps a musician recruitment service on speed dial…

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