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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blogger Dies of Heart Attack Waiting For Arcade Fire Leak

In what is believed to be the first fatality ever attributed due to anxiety for an album leak, blogger Eugene Wilhelm of Seattle, Washington has passed away at the tender age of 24 years old. While medical professionals attribute Wilhelm's death to several blocked arteries that stemmed the flow of blood to his heart, those close to Wilhelm claim that the real reason stems from his unchecked anticipation for the new release from the Montreal based-septet, The Arcade Fire.

According to Wilhelm's closest friend, Erick Simpson, Wilhelm had been sleepless for several days leading up to his death.

"It was terrible. He couldn't sleep. He couldn't eat. All he could do was sit in front of the computer with glazed eyes, constantly searching for the album on Soulseek and Oink. At one point he called me up ranting and raving. I think the first song, "Intervention" had just leaked. All he kept saying was 'Erick...do you hear that organ...do you hear that organ....it sounds like God. It sounds like God."

Wilhelm's ex-girlfriend Nancy Farrar said that Wilhelm's interest in the Arcade Fire had been one of the reasons for their break-up.

"All he could talk about was Arcade Fire this...Funeral that...Pitchfork this...but they all trade instruments that!! He even named his blog "In the Blogseat" after one of the songs on their debut. I was like 'look they're a good band and all, but they didn't exactly invent bread," Farrar said solemnly. "But he wouldn't stop. He told me that Win Butler was better than any kind of bread ever made. Even raisin bread. I thought that that was a bit much. I told him that if he liked Win Butler so much, he should just date him. To which he responded..."fine then...maybe I will."

Win Butler: "I Didn't Do It."

Win Butler, the lead singer of the Arcade Fire expressed sadness over Wilhelm's death, but made it clear that neither he nor the rest of the band should bear any responsibility for it.

"Look, I'm sad that the kid died, but honestly, we're just a band. We make music. We've only released like 15 songs ever. I'm pleased that people listen to our music, but perhaps people should focus on things more important, like curing polio." When Butler was informed that polio has already been cured, he added. "Or curing cancer. It doesn't matter. We're just a band."

But others feel differently. In particularly, Wilhelm's grieving mother, Cindy Wilhelm declared that to her son, the Arcade Fire were more than "just a band."

"If you could only have seen the look in my son's eyes when he ran upstairs from the basement and started screaming "look mom, 'Black Mirror' leaked." I haven't seen him that happy since before he got dumped by that bitch Nancy Farrar," Cindy Wilhelm. "His heart seemed fine then. Really, I didn't think anything of it until this week when a live performance of new material leaked. He screamed for about an hour with excitement and then he went strangely silent."

Wilhelm's body wasn't discovered until 6 p.m. that evening, when his mom found his cold body, still slumped over his computer, with his fingers still right-clicked on his mouse. Attempts to revive the fallen blogger were futile.

Wiping a tear from his eyes, Simpson mourned the loss of his fallen friend.

"What saddens me the most about it is that Eugene never even got to hear the album. I honestly think if he could've heard it, he would've died a happy man. But now? Nothing. His life was all for naught. He truly loved this band. He was even planning to name his first son Win Butler Wilhem. This is tragic, I just wish we could've staged an intervention of some sort to try to save him."

When reminded that "Intervention" was the first song leaked from the new album, Neon Bible. Simpson shrugged and grinned slightly.

"I guess that's what they call irony. Perhaps when Eugene first heard the song it truly was a sign from God. I mean....it is a really good song. "

God declined to comment for this story.

Download:
MP3: The Arcade Fire-"Intervention"

The Passion of the Weiss takes no responsibility for any heart attacks that may ensue.

posted by Passion of the Weiss @ 2:25 AM   

 

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Okay, yeah, that reminds me of my post "Breaking News: Ray Toro's Afro Attacks" only funnier and with less typos.

""Look, I'm sad that the kid died, but honestly, we're just a band. We make music. We've only released like 15 songs ever. I'm pleased that people listen to our music, but perhaps people should focus on things more important, like curing polio." When Butler was informed that polio has already been cured, he added. "Or curing cancer. It doesn't matter. We're just a band.""

Or curing smallpox.  I hear that is making a comeback.

 

" I told him that if he liked Win Butler so much, he should just date him. To which he responded..."fine then...maybe I will.""

Hey dude, Win is married. He could never have dated you. Sorry.

cyclonus78 :
saves all those emos from slashing their wrists. guess even god dont like em. oh well, thats just a few less emos in the world to hate

MLaMotta5992 :
Thats what they get for listenon to TERRIBLE music. Its not even music. Its crap.
POSTED: 06/18/2007 - 06:23 pm / quote |

Ihearthetfield :
I've just converted to theism. This has given me faith in a god!
POSTED: 06/18/2007 - 07:04 pm / quote |

 

yawn wrote: fee-oh-nix wrote:Oh pish tosh - there's humor in everything. You just have to look hard enough. If you don't laugh, you'll cry, pal. Really - if everyone was as dead serious as you right now all the time, the world would be even worse than it is at the moment. You should all lighten up. We all get injured, we all get hurt, we all get sick, and one day, we're all gonna die. Get familiar with your mortality and stop being so overzealous in reaction to a comment jesting at it. Fine, I'll keep that in mind when you die. Anyways, most MCR fans don't cut themselves. They're just regular people who liked what they heard on the radio and got into MCR's music because they enjoy it. And hell, this happened at a music festival, which means there were a hell of a lot more bands than just MCR there. Maybe some of these fans just attended MCR's performance to make the most of their money. But really, it shouldn't even matter which band the fans came to see. How some people could think that little fact is relevant is beyond me.

stfu.

 

 

 

jplay5 :

AppleZ wrote: Where their fans too busy slashing their wrists, you call that injured?!!?

...very original

 

Teufel :

element4433 wrote: wow people are excited that people got hurt

Well, it's very amusing that the people that were injured were most likely emos. We all know how much they love pain.

 

kalamari :
someone up there doesn't like them....

:P

Comment:

 

The moral of this story is:

See what happens when you go to festivals to see crumby bands?

 

The Gods of metal:

 

......have smiled upon Italy.......

It's a shame MCR weren't on stage when the rig came down. That'd have been super.

 

Comment:

 

godhas spoken!
thou shall not listen to mcr.

Comment:

Jesus has spoken he ruined my chemical romance's set on purpose, not even a 2,000 year old dead guy likes them

 

Comment:

Even God CAN'T STAND THESE MOTHERFUCKERS.........CLASSIC

 

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For all you who didn't hear:

 

Fans Injured In Accident At Italian Rock/Metal Festival; Photos Available - June 15, 2007

NME.COM reports that several audience members have been hurt at the Heineken Jammin' Festival in Italy today (June 15) after a lighting and sound system collapsed. According to early reports from the site, following strong winds and heavy rain, the ground under the delay towers on site, which support the lights and amps, became unsteady and fell down. "I've never seen weather like it," one eyewitness told NME.COM. "MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE were due to play but then the sky just went black. There were really strong winds and massive hailstones and everything just got blown away. The sound desk, tops of stages, everything. It was really shocking." Ambulances have been called to the site, and it is believed at least nine people have been hurt and have been taken to hospital, suffering leg fractures and head injuries. There are a number of "walking wounded" still on site, but no fatalities are reported.

 

 

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So apparently, even though MCR were mentioned once, it is once again funny to say people being seriously hurt is funny.

 

That's like laughing at hurricane survivors or people wounded in an earthquake and saying they deserved it because they liked a band you don't like.

 

Do these people really think they are being hardcore, elite, funny, clever, and rock and roll saying these things?

 

They just jump on the bandwagon and have basically become insensitive sadists.

 

Kind of like Lord of the Flies, no?

Muse Frontman Matt Bellamy Mocks Airport Security

I was reading this blog review of an AF show by this chick, and I almost pissed myself after this quote.

"There were about ten people on stage and about four of them seemed to have the job of percussion, and they each used all their limbs to bang anything within banging distance. Win Butler has creepy molester hair. His wife is what Avril Lavigne wishes she could be. I couldn't stop thinking about them at home. I'm sure they live in a church in Montreal and they only wear clothes made from fishnets on Fridays and they have a pony."


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I'm sorry, but I have to break this down.

"There were about ten people on stage and about four of them seemed to have the job of percussion, and they each used all their limbs to bang anything within banging distance."

True. Kinda. It does seem like that sometimes, at least.

"Win Butler has creepy molester hair."

Wait. Never mind. Not going to touch that.

"His wife is what Avril Lavigne wishes she could be. "

Well, first, I need to go throught the ritualistic mourning over seeing Regine Chassagne and Avril Lavigne mentioned in the same sentence. Just because they are both married Canadian chicks in the music industry does not mean we need a comparison. Especially since Avril and Regine come from completely different backgrounds. Second, I need to go through the ritualistic mourning of seeing Regine referred to as "His [Win Butler's] wife." If Regine wanted to be defined by that as opposed to as herself, Regine Chassagne, then she would have changed her name to Regine Butler when they got married.

Third, I have to disagree. Avril should be wishing she could do all the Regine can do:

a) Sing (well)
b) Write Songs
c) Dance (well)
d) Be smart
e) Play instruments
f) Speak French
g) Be in a kick-ass rock band

Unfortunately for everyone, Avril is totally oblivious to the fact that she can't do any of these things. Which is kind of why she exists, unfortunately.


"I couldn't stop thinking about them at home. I'm sure they live in a church in Montreal and they only wear clothes made from fishnets on Fridays and they have a pony."

Church residence in Montreal? Check.
Strict adherence to donning fishnet clothing on Fridays? Ch- wait. What the fuck?

I mean, there is an old Catholic thing about not eating meat on Fridays, but I can't remember anything about fishnet clothes and I'm pretty sure they are not Catholic.

Pony? Uh.... I don't know, but I would really appreciate someone making some funny picture of Regine and Win with a pony. Also, how the Hell would Win be able to fit on a pony? Maybe he'd be leading the pony as Regine road it? But then again, he'd probably be taller than the the pony. Maybe Regine could just ride on Win's back. Maybe Win has creepy pony hair as opposed to creepy molester hair.

But yeah, every so often I come across stuff like that makes my brain go funny.

But this made me laugh.

Thought I would share.

Am I a bad Arcade Fire fan for finding the molester hair comment funny?

In 1928, Herbert Hoover was elected President. His opponent, Al Smith, lost because of his religion. In 1960, John F Kennedy was elected president, but people were worried because of his religion. Both men were Roman Catholics. People thought the Pope would rule America if they elected a Catholic.

Well, Hoover served one term, losing office due to his mishandling at the start of The Great Depression, which happened the year he assumed office. He was succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose main criticisms were appointing all his friends to his cabinet as opposed to people who might be better qualified a la Bush's I and II, and letting his wife Eleanor "be his legs" do what she was good at (observing, thinking, connecting with people, being brilliant, teaching people, saying influential things, going against the standards, helping people, traveling, making speeches, starting projects to give people aid, giving hope and inspiration, working, using power) as opposed making her sit at home and give tea parties all the time.

John F. Kennedy screwed up the Bay of Pigs something mighty, which has been a huge point in the criticism he recieved, in addition to his adultery; mishandling of economics; and appointing the wrong people to the wrong stations, even messing up where he put his brother Bobby, who was a genius. Other than that, he championed the civil rights movement, sent troops down to the University of Mississippi so black students could attend, got Martin Luther King released from jail, got funding for the mentally handicapped, and supported legislation which would open up immigration opportunities to people from Latin and South American countries.

He got shot.

When Ronald Reagan, a Republican was elected, women were worried that having a Republican in office meant a threat to Women's rights. Ronald Reagan had corrupt people in his administration, cut taxes, ended the Cold War, hung out with English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court, the first woman to make it to the Supreme Court.

He was succeeded after his two terms were up by Bush I who won the Gulf War, elected a bunch of his unqualified friends to office, and cut off the funding for the mentally handicapped, and was out of power in one term.

We now have Bush I's son in office, George W. Bush. His approval rating on average varies between 28-34%. I'd go into all the things he's criticized for, but that would take too long. He is a devout Methodist and has made many replacements in the Supreme Court.

Here is the most current list of Justices on the Supreme Court:

Justice	Affiliation
John Roberts	Catholic
Stephen G. Breyer	Jewish
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Jewish
Anthony M. Kennedy	Catholic
Harriet Miers	Evangelical Christian
Antonin Scalia	Catholic
David H. Souter	Episcopalian
John Paul Stevens	Protestant
Clarence Thomas	Catholic

Four of the Supreme Court Justices are Catholic. There are more Catholics in the Supreme Court than all the other Christian Denominations put together. And there two Jews. Two out of the nine judges are are women.

Public perception is interesting. That being said, Bush sucks.

Forget her singing, look at her ASS!
By putting a fat butt-naked Beth Ditto on its front cover, the NME has ensured that she is better known for her curves than her music – just like Girls Aloud.

By Emily Hill

Beth Ditto is fat. Look at her big fat ass on the cover of a magazine. The immaculate red talons on her chubby little hands rest on her shelf-like behind and scaffold her mammoth bosom. Great rolls of flesh protrude from her body like sculpted road humps; wisps of black hair peak out of her armpits and, atop it all, Ditto’s groomed head stares out, a half-sneer on her bright red lips. It might sound sexy, but this front cover is not crammed on to the newsagent’s top shelf, between Asian Babes and Reader’s Wives. Instead it’s the front cover of the New Musical Express (NME), and the jaunty headline reads: ‘KISS MY ASS!’

If there’s one thing the NME is good at, it is kissing ass, so it’s an appropriate headline. And as Ditto, lead singer of punk band The Gossip, has already starred in her own porn movie with her lesbian transgender lover, and regularly takes all her clothes off on stage because she gets overheated, this nude stunt is not out of character for her, either. Ditto is happy with the way she looks and says she has no problem with her body. She suggests that everyone should eat whatever the hell they like (even squirrels, if they’re from Arkansas) and holds no truck with today’s white-trash bashing morality over fast food.

But, of course, the NME-styled ‘Queen of Cool’ is not interviewed about her new musical direction, her life story or anything interesting like that in the latest NME - instead she is invited to talk about tabloid exposure (she’s been in the tabloids a lot recently) and the ‘size zero’ debate. For all the apparent ‘daring’ it took for the NME to put a naked Ditto on its front cover, in fact the magazine is playing it safe. It is apparently ‘challenging’ today’s body-image obsession by…publishing an image of a different kind of body! If it had put one of pop’s Pamela Anderson look-a-likes on the cover – a Cheryl Tweedy or a L’il Kim – there would have been blind outrage and accusations of sexism. Ditto is given special naked privileges because she’s a porker. She’s a specimen. She’s a freak. And freaks are, like, cool, aren’t they? So kiss my ass!

Inside there are more pictures of Beth being fat: fat with oversized kiss marks on her shoulders; fat in yellow tights; fat on stage, waving to her fans. She tries to make a few remarks about feminism and queerness, but it’s her status as an ambassador for ‘fat pride’ that really gets the NME going. Beth recently refused Topshop permission to play The Gossip’s music in their stores, because they do not offer a clothes range in her size – and for the NME that fact is more interesting than the woman’s music or views on anything else.

The magazine harangues Ditto about Kate Moss (a friend of Ditto’s), claiming that people like her ‘have a responsibility’ for today’s size-zero trend. Ditto responds: ‘You can’t hate a person for dieting, and you can’t blame a person for feeling shit about themselves. You have to blame the machine that feeds it, the thing that makes people feel like that.’ Predictably, she goes on to blame American starlets Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan for today’s widespread body-consciousness rather than, say, constant government initiatives to combat the ‘obesity epidemic’ or sanctimonious liberal filmmakers who make us feel guilty for ramming Big Macs down our gullets. And yet, Ditto is on to something when she talks about a wider cultural pressure over body image. The NME fails to grasp it. ‘Surely Kate Moss is part of that machine? Do you think she’s happy with what she’s doing?’ the magazine blandly demands.

It is of course ridiculous to blame Kate Moss for anorexia, bulimia and every other personal body-image catastrophe that might be erupting in teenage bedrooms nationwide. The article goes on to say that Ditto is holding back from ‘badmouthing’ Kate. ‘Beth sounds sad. She speaks quietly, like a child who doesn’t want to share a secret.’ When Ditto says that ‘if there’s anyone to blame for size zero, it’s not women…. blame the media…. blame gay men’, the NME journalist replies smugly: ‘Bravo. You’ve sidestepped the question.’

I think the NME sidestepped the interview. What on earth is a music mag doing interrogating the freshest pop icon in years about her body shape? Shouldn’t they be asking her about drugs? Or her stage routine, her concepts, her ideas, her heroes, her aspirations, her creative partnerships? Seemingly not. For all the supposedly radical interest in Ditto, she, like any member of Girls Aloud, is now known almost totally for her body. Sure, she can hold a tune, but man, look at that ASS! This highlights something crude in today’s ‘body politics’. It seems that a culture so obsessed with size, diet and weight cannot simply ask a noticeably fat person about her music or interests but instead must hold her up as the new poster girl for other forms of body image: she’s fat over thin, hairy over shaved, beehived over groomed, and isn’t that just great?!

Celebrating Ditto’s body, in the way that the NME has done, is simply the flipside of our narrow, body-obsessed culture. It is not a positive statement to put her fat ass on the cover. The NME has bared Ditto in much the same way as the celebrity gossip weekly heat obsessively notes the waxing and waning of Nicole Richie’s skeleton or Britney Spear’s curves: to send a message to the nation about our bodies.

Seemingly disappointed that Ditto refuses to join in its simplistic Kate-bashing, the NME goes on to lecture her about the true meaning of pop music. The interviewer declares that he is off to see Watford-based band, The Gallows, perform later that night, claiming that they do what all good indie popsters should do: educate the youth about ishooos. Ditto chips in: ‘I don’t like that they’re called Gallows.’ She says the name makes her feel uncomfortable because of the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan in the American Deep South, where she’s from. ‘It seems weird that a bunch of white boys would call themselves that.’ ‘We reassure her’, rounds the NME, ‘that they’re a genuinely important band - telling her about [The Gallows’] song, Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake, a call to arms for vigilante action against the perpetrators of date rape. We tell her we’re so happy that a band are asking, and answering, such difficult questions, but that we’re uncomfortable with the song’s suggestion that people disregard the notion of law and order….’

If further evidence were needed that the NME is as dead as Top of the Pops, this is surely it. The magazine that once employed Julie Burchill as a ‘hip young gunslinger’ chronicling 70s punk now balks at the lyrics to a song that encourages gun-use and employs dimwits who can’t bear the thought of doing anything that is not endorsed by a New Labour think-tank. ‘Rebellion, you say? I’ll just check with mummy – and I’ll have to be home by 10.’

Ditto was put on the front cover to play a role, and the interview seems to have been little more than an excuse for the NME to stamp its outlook on her, rather than the other way round. In today’s vapid pop culture, the asylum (in this case NME) is trying to take over the lunatics (the likes of Ditto). The NME will have its lunatics where and how it wants them – and if they’re fat, it wants them butt naked on the front cover.

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I've been waiting for Beth Ditto to do something this dumb so I could have solid proof to prove my theories on her.

This was what I was going to say before Emily Hill beat me to the punch:

As some of you might know, I have never been a big fan of Beth Ditto for a few reasons. I think she profits off her “weight issues” to get attention since she constantly talks about it, which is funny considering her claims that she does not care if she is fat or ugly. Another reason being that I believe she exploits her sexuality to gain publicity. I know that sounds harsh but frankly, we get it: She’s a lesbian. No one cares. I’m not talking about “Standing in the Way of Control,” that was art. That’s good. I mean constantly talking about it like she does about her weight. Who gives a shit? We’ve had known gay people making music since Cole Porter and lesbians in particular in show business since.... Well...... that depends on who came out of the closet first, Melissa Etheridge, Rosie O-Donnell, or Ellen Degeneres? So Beth is nothing new nor is she anything to pay attention to. I prefer it when she talks about how she sings in her sleep: That is fine. It relates to what you do for a living. But this woman never stops talking about her sexuality. Honey: You’re a professional singer (and a pretty good one too), NOT a professional lesbian. People need to stop congratulating her for being fat and a lesbian. She does not need your pity. She seems fine with being gay and as to her looks, despite being fat she does look quite cute whenever she bathes and is not wearing spandex. But I digress. Another reason I don’t like her is because everything she does seems to be for self-promotion. Even when she is supposed to be praising Blowhard Gallagher, she’s just like, “Oh, he said I had the best voice in Rock.” That was not supposed to be a cue to congratulate yourself, but to say something nice about SOMEBODY ELSE. Furthermore, the front she puts up of the rebellious groundbreaker is so flimsy. She NEVER says anything that is not already accepted by her core audience or supported by everyone in her business. She always has said safe things.

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So yeah.

Fuck you, Beth Ditto. Kiss My Ass.

I picked up AP and right in the middle of the article about The Academy Is....., Is a feature, an interview with Brian May.

We Still! We Still! Rock You!

Admittedly, it seems strange to see legendary Queen guitarist BRIAN MAY next to the likes of William Beckett & Co., but actually it makes perfect sense. Listening to Santi, it's obvious The Academy Is... were heavily influenced by the legendary English act's innovative arrangements and progressive songwriting. And they're not the only ones; these days, everyone from Muse to My Chemical Romance are touting Queen as a key influence. Jonah Bayer recently caught up with the guitarist to get his take on the latest generation of musicians worshipping  A Night At The Opera.

Are you aware of Queen's influence on a lot of today's modern bands?

Yeah, and I find it very flattering. I was lucky enough to bump into My Chemical Romance recently and they were so incredibly knowledgeable about what we've done, I couldn't believe it. I'm always surprised when people have really gotten into our work and what they've taken in as part of their ammunition, as you like. It's great because it keeps us young in a way, interacting with these people.

Why (or more like, HOW THE FUCK) are you surprised younger bands are influenced by Queen?

Living in England, you get so used to everyone being skeptical. The press we get in England is still generally negative, so you go out like a porcupine with all your prickles up expecting people to hate you. It's wonderful when people that we respect and we understand actually cite us as an influence

It seems like the album a lot of bands mention is A Night At The Opera. Why do you think that album in particular seems to be such a sonic benchmark?

There was a huge catharsis we were going through at the time. We were trying to split from our management company because we were obviously never going to get any money out of them and we felt artistically constrained. So we walked out of our management deal owing everybody money and made A Night At The Opera; it was our make-or-break time. All our passion and creativity and hunger went into that album and it had to be the big one. Luckily for us, it was.

Have you heard of Panic! at the Disco?

No, I'm afraid I haven't.

They're very young and they planned to cover "Bohemian Rhapsody" on their first arena tour last year, but they decided on "Killer Queen" instead. When you hear a band are going to cover that song, do you get kind of worried?

I just wish them luck. [Laughs.] In order to do it right, you need a lot of people because we multi-tracked ourselves in the studio hundreds of times- so as a four-piece, that's pretty difficult to do.

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Okay, first of all, sorry Panic! :(

Second, hahahahaha! Now that asshole at my school can no longer say Queen are dishonored by My Chem! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Third:

"Living in England, you get so used to everyone being skeptical. The press we get in England is still generally negative, so you go out like a porcupine with all your prickles up expecting people to hate you."

Huh! WHY?????

I mean, no one can say that I don't have a problem with the British Music Press, but still....

When Queen's Greatest Hits is the top-sold record in your country and the two bands routinely topping the charts (Muse, MCR) keep citing Queen as an influence, that's usually a cue to stop being negative about Queen!

I mean come on!

Amazing musicianship? Check

Great performances? Check

Great, legendary singer? Uh, Check

Great sense of humor? Check

Multiple great songs which were huge hits? Check

Crossing the ocean? Check

Gazillions of records sold? Check

Great songwriting? Check

Strong influence on great new bands? Check

Tricking jocks into singing the anthems of the homosexuals at their sports games?

CHECK CHECK CHECK!!! (Three checks: 1) We Will Rock You 2) Another One Bites the Dust 3) We Are The Champions)

Okay, sorry, but Queen has all the things to validate themselves in ANYONE'S eyes, no matter what the audience.

This has got me thinking (once again) about something Matthew Bellamy said about being disappointed with most of the stuff in the British Music Scene.

Not to mention this quote: “It does change your perspective on the UK music scene,” he says. “You realise how self-inflated it is. You see bands that are so unbelievably hyped in the UK. "

Yeah, and while I'm not totally trashing british music ( after all, the US is not all that much better, even Warped Tour is losing itself), it makes me wonder about this all. What Brian said about Queen getting negative press in Britain still, and what Matthew said about all the hype and shit........

I'm sorry, I am a fan of the Arctic Monkeys, but they are not Rock Messiahs. They're pretty fucking awesome, but that does not make it impossible to overrate them. And no one in the US other than Perez Hilton really gives a shit about the Gossip. We have Rosie O'Donnell, so we really don't need another fat lesbian publicizing and talking about how she is, in fact, a fat lesbian every fifteen minutes. We have that covered. We have moved onto the type of lesbian talk show host who does not sell herself on her sexuality (Ellen Degeneres).

It's funny how bands like The Klaxons and The Gossip are so hyped up in the British music Press, same with Oasis and every band that wants to be them. Yet bands like Queen are still getting generally negative press?

And the (still living) members of that band don't even hate each other. In fact, John Deacon, Brian May, and Roger Taylor are still friends from what I hear and these days devote themselves to keeping Freddie Mercury's memory alive. How beautiful is that? And Oasis don't even like each other and they are BROTHERS.

Wow.

My advice to Brian May: Grab John and Roger, make your movie, and move with me to Australia. We'll invite Paul McCartney and Muse and MCR to join us. And maybe Arcade Fire. We'll hang with Wolfmother and and JaneDope.

The faint sound of disappointed groans were heard in the halls of Gurrie Middle School Tuesday, as the winner was announced for a drum cymbal signed by the award-winning rock band My Chemical Romance.

The drum cymbal was raffled to students at the middle school in southwest suburban La Grange as part of PBIS, the school's Positive Behavior Incentive Program. The program serves to reward students for acts of good behavior.

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Gurrie Middle School student Emily Thuma, 13, and para-professional Ryan Kelly looks a cymbal signed by My Chemical Romance that she won in a school contest.
(Rich Hein/Sun-Times)

Ryan Kelly, a teaching assistant at the school, explained that each student is given a "tiger stripe" every time they demonstrate behavior that is positive. If a teacher witnesses a student helping another student pick up their books, for example, they receive a tiger stripe.

"We noticed that students that don't [always] exhibit the best behavior have really made an effort to exhibit positive behavior," Kelly said.

Normally, Gurrie students would use their tiger stripes to enter smaller raffles for Best Buy certificates or redeem them for candy during lunch. However, after Kelly met My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar at a concert in March at Allstate Arena, the band offered the signed cymbal as another incentive for PBIS.

Because the band members are in the spotlight, they have a responsibility to be positive role models, Bryar said in a phone interview. Sometimes the message is lost because of the group's hard-driving image.

"There's a lot of people in the media that try to convey this band as violent," said Bryar. "Our main message we're trying to convey is -- just to be happy."

Bitch, please:

Marilyn Manson brands My Chemical Romance 'sad and pitiful'

The shock rocker lays into Gerard Way's band

Marilyn Manson has stuck the knife into fellow goth types My Chemical Romance, claiming they're ripping him off.

In an interview with The London Paper he revealed that the song 'Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery', from his new album 'Eat Me, Drink Me', is about Gerard Way's outfit. It features the blunt lyrics, "Fuck you, fuck you".

He elaborated on his attack on the band, saying, "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I've done.

"If they want to identify with me then here's a razor blade. Call me when you're done and we'll talk."

The swipe comes days before the two acts are set to share a stage, albeit one day after one another, at the Download Festival at Donington Park. MCR headline on Friday, with Manson playing before headliners Linkin Park the day after.

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Hey, he might not want to do this. Why? Because it's so obvious to everyone (even mcr haters) that he's only doing this because:

a) Everyone has been laying into himlately for showing that behind the vile jerk makeup, he is really just a vile jerk, so now he wants to shift the public vision of that from him
b) MCR are an easy target because every band disses them and MCR decide not to respond
c) he has an album to promote
d) sick of all the people pointing out that he is just a has-been overly made-up Trent Reznor wanna be, he wants to make it look like he too is an innovator by saying that there are wannabes of him and use that as evidence.

e) MCR headlining whilst he is opening for another band probably embarrasses him, especially after all the publicity he's gotten off his divorce and STILL he's not headling, must put a real stick up his ass.

Like it matters, MCR won't respond because they decided after the Kasabian shit that it just was not worth it.

But please, if they really wanted to be clones of him, there would be no way in hell they would have written famous last words or Cemetary Drive

He's using them not only because they are an easy target, but because people who don't listen to either artist will see the black makeup and immediately decide they are the same thing. He is playing on not only that stereotype but the emo crap as well. Ridiculous.

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ALSO:

Shock rocker MARILYN MANSON has hit out at his estranged wife DITA VON TEESE warning men to stay away from "crazy bitches".
The Rock Is Dead singer split from the burlesque dancer in December (06), and recently blamed the breakdown of their marriage on Von Teese's insistence on trying to change him, leaving him with "no soul".
And in another apparent swipe at his ex, Manson says, "Stay away from crazy bitches. Crazy women can be dangerous.
"If you get involved with the wrong person you can be in trouble."

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I don't think I need to say anything else. He really is doing a great job being a parody of himself. Get a life, dude.

To all you people saying Gerard's engagement means the end of the band: You're full of shit.

Don't pretend you know all because really you're just dumber than a cat turd and trying to disguise your juvenile bitterness.

More examples of married/engaged rock stars still growing strong: Matthew Bellamy of Muse is engaged, and Muse Bassist Chris Wolstenholme is married with three kids and has been since their first record. Definately have not gone downhill/broken up yet. Also in Arcade Fire, the two front people are married: TO EACH OTHER so added onto the so-called marriage threat there is also INTER-OFFICE ROMANCE. And Arcade Fire are still pwning everyone's souls. A similar arrangement x2 was going on when Fleetwood Mac made their first record too.

Just all of you admit that you are exploiting a disgusting, mysogynistic, degrading stereotype to try and justify your immature bitterness. Pathetic. At least the ones goingHe was gonna marry meeee" are honest.

It is disgusting that you would use such low devices as the Yoko Ono stereotype to disguise the fact that your stupid fantasies are now crushed. What kind of disgusting little shit would use such sexist stereotypes like that? Especially girls? You know that holds us back, right? And you know the band hates anything that holds women back as well right? MCR would be ashamed.

You're not real fans if you are doing this. You're pathetic delusional twits and give a bad name to all MCR fans. Now go cry in your bedrooms.

Like it's not enough that exams are this week. Oh no. Why should I get off that easy? But tonight, our new puppy disappeared. The one my dad made us name Lance instead of Freddie or Ringo. The yellow lab that is cuter than anything. He just vanished. Poof. We looked all over the neighborhood for him.

We looked for hours, asked neighbors, etc. It was night already so it did not help matters.

Thankfully, Dad finally found him...... under the couch. Thank God.

But really, do I really need that kind of stress? Grrrrrrrrrr.

I was terrified! He's only seven weeks old. Now he's back home safe, Thank God. I just wish that had not happened.

He's here now. I'll post pictures soon. He's adorable. I am so glad I did not lose him.