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When music publications get the subjects of their features' names wrong.

Like, if it were some non-musically centerred publication, I might understand. I could even tolerate it if it was some tiny band that was not the focus of an article. But when a music magazine gets the names of the artist they are focussing on wrong, it annoys me to no end.

Muse fans know about this from when I mentioned how NME, when writing about Muse winning the 'Best British Band' award on their website actually wrote the words, "Drummer Matt Howard."

Now it has happened again.

A feature from Uncut magazine on the Arcade Fire's performance at Reading Festival:

ARCADE FIRE STOMP THROUGH TO TRIUMPH AT READING

The Arcade Fire Win and Regine Butler steal festival's Saturday night

The ever multiplying members of Arcade Fire, led by Win and Regine Butler, brought a harmonious, melodic and astounding set to Reading Festival tonight (August 25).

Having already resoundingly triumphed at Glastonbury and Latitude festivals this summer, the group brought their epic sound and light show to Carling Weekend here too.

Ploughing through tracks from their bestselling albums 'Funeral' and 'Neon Bible' - Arcade Fire get the whole crowd swaying and singing by the time they hit 'Wake Up' - which end s with a real Jam-my guitar riff.

Sound problems early on with the orchestration not being loud enough, are eventually rectified with each song getting progressively louder. The group flanked out front with their now normal light pole stage set up - look better and better as darkness eventually falls over the Reading site.

'Black Mirror', 'Intervention' and 'Haiti' all sound simpy amazing.

The full setlist was:

"Keep The Car Running"
"No Cars Go"
"Haiti"
"Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)"
"Black Mirror"
"Intervention"
"(Antichrist Television Blues)"
"Windowsill"
"Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)"
"Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)"
"Rebellion (Lies)"
"Wake Up"

Next up is Red Hot Chili Peppers to close Reading Festival, Anthony Keidis and co. are currently getting ready backstage for set. Funk - we're waiting for.

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Twice they used the phrase "Win and Regine Butler"

Okay.

Yes they are married, and maybe Regine legally changed her name to Butler and just goes by her maiden name professionally since she was in the band before the got hitched. I don't know the details of that stuff because it's none of my business. But the fact of the matter is on the credits for Neon Bible she's listed as Regine Chassagne and in every interview she is listed as Regine Chassagne. I have never seen her go by Regine Butler.

Aren't music publications obligated to call people by their professional names?

I mean, there are already two Butlers in the band, Win and Will.

They could have said "Married couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne" (as many are fond of doing) or "Win Butler and Regine Chassagne" or just "Win Butler" since in the setlist there is only one song where she sings lead.

And when the article is about them in the first place, they should get the names right.

Sorry but this sort of thing is a perfect representation of the total laspe in journalistic integrity and failure by people doing their research. I mean this is not some blogger. This is an actual legit publication!

Grrr..

Why, God? Why?

Well, as all you probably know right now, there is a new concert series to be put on called Girlfrenzy which is headlined by Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, and Avril Lavigne. It is to showcase an all-female lineup.

This has got to be the worst, most sexist idea since the book of Leviticus.

Yeah, it's nice that it goes towards benefitting Breast Cancer, but this is still a terrible idea.

If there was a concert series where they decided to specifically have an all-male lineup, then people would be raising hell about sexism. So I will shout sexism about this.

I mean, it is. I'm not just saying it is a bad idea because Avril Lavigne is involved. I swear. I'm saying this because showcasing and marveling over women who make music makes it seem like it's something weird and unlikely. It's not. It makes it seem like, "hey look, would you look at that? That's a person playing MUSIC! And they have a vagina! How?"

This is not the 1940s people. It's not a big deal anymore.

Sure, sexism still reigns supreme in the music industry, but this is not the way to counteract it. This is fueling it. This is undermining the efforts of female musicians. This making it look like it's rare or different if a girl is as good as making music as a guy is. We all know that is not true. Girls can rock as hard as dudes do. But putting out something like that will make it seem like we still need to prove it, and thus, make it look fake.

And what if no one goes to this thing? Or tickets don't sell?

Well, then that will only make it look like only guys can put on good festivals or concerts. That girls can't do it on their own. That's what people will say.

We have to stop treating this like it's still an issue! Or the doubters will never go away!

Even Bikini Kill and Hole had dudes in the band! They rocked out like crazy, showcasing female talent.

I love chicks making music, I do, but not any less than I love dudes making music! It's those who were casual about it and did not stress the fact that it was A GIRL making music.

Good example was the subject of my last journal.

Stevie Nicks was a groundbreaker for ladies. She was very very feminine and she made amazing music. But she didn't act like she was so great making music. She was always ready to admit she needed Lindsey Buckingham to help her with her songs, as well as other producers. Fleetwood Mac had three songwriters in its most successful lineup and two were female. They didn't act like it was so weird. Sure, Mick Fleetwood wanted Christine McVie in the band, but it had nothing to do with her being a girl. He just thought she played great blues piano. They all mentioned Stevie was always writing songs, but they didn't stress her being a girl either.

Then look at Patti Smith. She just did what she did. Another groundbreaking female. The Madam of Punk. But you know what she did? She did not make an issue of her gender because there was none.

Carole King? Same thing.

Christie Hynde? Same thing.

NONE of these women hid their gender, but they did not make it an issue either. They just DID what they did.

I hate this stuff. It's so ridiculous. Making this Girlfrenzy thing is just an exploitation of prejudice.

We all know about how Lindsay Lohan was "desperate" to buy the rights to and star in a Stevie Nicks biopic months ago. Then in the May issue of Blender when asked about it by a fan in an interview, Stevie said, "Linndsay Lohan thinks she is going to play me. But what the Hell movie does she think she's talking about? There is no book, there is no screenplay, there is no movie. There is never going to be a movie made without me because it won't be the story of me. Even though a lot has been written about me, the fact is nobody actually has a clue to what my life was like. So good luck Lindsay!"

OK, so first, this had to be the greatest issue of Blender ever because not only did it have Arcade Fire on the cover, it also had this Stevie interview.

I was overjoyed to hear this because I was disgusted when I heard about Lindsay trying to play Stevie in a biopic. Like I was seriously scared and grossed out. The fact is that the only thing Stevie and Lindsay have in common is a lot of cocaine. And the fact was, I was disgusted even more because I felt Lindsay was exploiting the story of not just Stevie, but John Lennon to get herself an Oscar. Let me explain.

In her talks about her desperate mission to play Stevie, she mentioned her hope to have her Chapter 27 costar Jared Leto play Stevie's ex-lover and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham. She mentioned how she wanted to do projects like 'Walk the Line' and 'Ray'. So in other words, she wanted to hop on the musical icon biopic bandwagon and get herself an Oscar. I mean, after all, Ray earned an Oscar for Jamie Foxx, Walk the Line scored one for Reese Witherspoon, and even Dream Girls got one for Jennifer Hudson. Big budget music biopics are the easiest way to get these days because every year one comes out and one of the actors in it get an Oscar. So what better way for Lohan to make people see her as a "Serious Actress" than to do one?

And she definitely did things to try and get people to see her as a possible candidate for a role as Stevie. First, her idiotic cover of Edge of Seventeen that quite literally sounded like her singing over a polyphonic ringtone or karaoke machine. Then she did Chapter 27, a movie about John Lennon's assassination. Ooh! Like, I'll totally do a movie about John Lennon's killer. FIrst it's like, arty, right? And then, like, it's about the killing of a legendary musician, which is like, so what I am aiming to play. And then, like, I'll date the guy who plays the killer! And he's got a band! And I'll try to get him the role of that guy, who like, totally banged Stevie Nicks. So then people will see me, in like, that way! Of an actress who can toally do a musical film and can totally bang her coworker! Who sings that song about the dove! Yeah!

Why else would Lindsay do it? Sean Lennon, her friend, personally asked her not to do the movie about his father's killer. Why? Because you see, the film would be giving Lennon's killer (whose name I refuse to say) the fame he wanted. That's why he did it. He wanted to be known of as the guy who killed John Lennon. So what do we do? Make a movie all about the killer in the days leading up to the killing! That totally gives the killer the fame he wanted and does not focus at all on the life Lennon led, which is the thing that does deserve a tribute. It's like thanking the killer for what he did, rewarding him with his dearest wish.

And by the way, Lindsay doesn't even know the words to Edge of Seventeen. There is a video on the web of her singing it after she recorded it and not being able to remember the words. Nice.

But it looked like a stage was set. She was in a musical movie. She had slept with her costar the same way that Stevie did in the 70s. She was trying to get her costar to play the character Stevie banged. She even covered a Stevie song.

And so I was so happy when Stevie dashed her hopes so publicly  and honestly. I was over the moon. Overjoyed. Lindsay would not be playing her.

One more reason to love Stevie Nicks.

But now I've sobered some.

And now I realize that a Stevie biopic would be awesome (as long as it was not Lindsay Lohan playing her). I mean, really really awesome. It would not just be the epic tale of a rock star's life and challenges with drugs, fame, and sex. It would also be part fairytale because, let's face it, Stevie's music is a fairy tale. And on top of it, it would be different of other fairytales because she does not get a handsome Prince at the end. And when Stevie went on drug benders, she didn't do it in a hotel room with groupies, on her downfall, so it not even those scenes would be like the ones in Ray, Walk the Line, or Sid and Nancy. Stevie did them with diamond studded spoons wearing chiffon and lace dresses and carrying the drugs in velvet bags. And that would not even be her at her worst. And there would still be addictions after she quits the cocaine.

But there is so much more.

The fact is, if you read interviews with Stevie Nicks, she's one of the most fascinating people ever. Her story is more layered, harrowing, exciting, exciting or dramatic than any book I've read. Her life was even more interesting than Johnny Cash's ir Ray Charles'. And I seriously mean that. They both lived fantastic lives, but neither touch Stevie's story. Let's face it: Both those guys have more or less the same tale. Both had rough childhoods marked by the tragic losses of loved ones, they grow up and fight to make music and struggle to have their talent recognized and appreciated. They both skyrocket to fame. They both experience hardship, cheat on their wives, and fall into heavy drug use and end up in a ditch. They both have relationships with great loves end terribly (Cash actually hitting his wife at one point, and Charles' misstress OD's and dies). The  finally both are pulled out of drug use when they've hit their worst low by their greatest loves (Ray by his wife, John by June Carter and her family) and they never do it again and live happily ever after.

Seriously.

But even a rough, less detailed summary of her life has more to it.

OK, well, Stevie had a fairly priveledged childhood and her talent was early recognized by her country-star Uncle who wanted to take her on the road. After a while she struggle with her lover and musical partner Lindsey Buckingham to find success while she supports him. And even after they make a great record together they are not found. Then they are taken into this band Fleetwood Mac and completely change them. She is 27. Fleetwood Mac becomes huge, their album goes 5x platinum thanks in no small part to her hit song Rhiannon.

 So far there are similarities, but still major differences. So then she falls into drug use and guess what? Her great and beautiful lover doesn't save her. Instead they have a terrible breakup and he also falls into drug use and treats her like shit. And this is not after the height of their fame. In fact, this is what inspired them to create the music that brought them to the height of their fame. Their band creates Rumours, the second highest selling album of all time. Three of the songs she's written go on the album. But not the one she wants the most called Silver Springs. It is shelved for Lindsey's song "You Can Go Your Own Way" in which Lindsey says "packing up and shacking up" is all she wants to do. And that's a hit, but not as much, at least, as her song 'Dreams,' which becomes Fleetwood Mac's only song to ever go to number one and whose single release goes gold on its own. Then after that, the drummer and manager of the band let's Lindsey do whatever he wants to on their next album and take control. Lindsey goes crazy, and the band puts out a double album. Lindsey writes nine of the songs, fellow songwriter and pianist of the band Christine McVie writes six, and Stevie writes five. She has an affair with drummer Mick Fleetwood. Once again, Silver Springs is shelved because Mick agrees to do it. She breaks up with him.

And it goes on, she has more failed affairs and when she is thirty-three she launches a solo career because she was sick of her songs being put away. She has amazing success as a solo artist. She comes back to the band. She still has bad blood between her and her first lover, which goes on after she stops using cocaine with no help from anyone but the fine folks at the Betty Ford center. And after that, no, her old love Lindsey does not come back to her. She has more solo success. The the band creates their most successful album in 11 years and still no love. Instead, Lindsey and Stevie try to strangle each other when he decides to leave the band on the eve of one of their tours.

After that, she quits the band too. Her solo career starts to go downhill and she is given by this quack doctor tranquilizers, which he increases over the course of eight years and it makes her near comatose. In the middle of this her old band make an awful record without her and Lindsey, but in 1992, they all reunite to do a triumphant performance at the inaugeral ball of the new president of the United States after she BEGS Lindsey to do it, and then they play the superbowl. And no, this does not inspire Stevie and Lindsey to reunite. After this Stevie notices at a party that despite an enormous fall and blow to the head which makes her gush blood, she feels no pain. So she tells Dr Quack to go fuck himself and goes to the Hospital. And does this recovery from an addiction spark her comeback and make her find love (maybe, just maybe, she gets with Lindsey again?)?

NO!

Instead, her weight goes up to 175 lbs (kind of a lot for someone who is 5'1) and she puts out the worst album of her career! By this time she is 46. And she even hates the album. Then she loses the weight and puts out her second Greatest Hits package, despite having put one out right before her last album. Sounds like she's done. But no.  Her new collection, a 3-disk set of pure hits is massively successful and she is on the top of her game. She recieves awards and is extremely well recieved. Then in 1997 FLeetwood Mac reunites and goes on a massively successful World Tour and puts out an equally successful Live album "The Dance" and finally 'Silver Springs' is put on there. It becomes a single and becomes a huge hit. And Stevie and Lindsey, who even after their breakup always had great chemistry onstage (save for the time he did a mocking imitation of her in one, purposely sang off-key during her songs in another, and attacked her in a third), give the most passionate and intense performance ever singing Silver Springs. Then in an article in Rolling Stone, when asked if they would get together, Lindsey is vague and hints at it being a possibility since Stevie is the girl he used to live with once more.

Stevie promptly tells Rolling Stone that over her dead body would she sleep with Lindsey again and says she'd much rather live a secluded life living in a castle.

A few years later Lindsey gets married and has kids with a photographer. Stevie's backup singer gets married to her brother. Then The Dixie Chicks do a cover of Stevie's song Landslide which is the biggest song of the year and earns her several awards. And she then collaborates with two of the biggest female artists in music and releases her album Trouble in Shangri-La, which is the biggest album she has in a dozen years and earns her great reviews. More success. Then once again Fleetwoodd Mac gets together (Christine MCVie excluded) puts out another album (once again marked by conflicts between Lindsey and Stevie) and it is successful.

That was four years ago. This years she's put out another successful Best of collection, is on tour, and is doing massive amounts of charity work instead of massive amouts of cocaine. She's 60.

That's not all in-depth, trust me. There is so much more to Stevie Nicks' life it's ridiculous. But see what I mean about her life being so film-worthy. You could outdo the entirety of Walk the Line's content and drama and still only cover the first half of Stevie's life, with only slight looks back on her childhood.

Hell, they could do a movie about a third of her life, and it would still be awesome. Or a book would be amazing. They would have to have more than one volume though. But it would be an epic that could outdo Lord of the Rings or even Harry Potter. The cooler part is: it all is real and actually happened.

The best part: Stevie has been faithfully keeping journals since she was 21. And she says she even doesn't write about sex. She writes around it.

Musicians she's had affairs with include:

Lindsey Buckingham

Mick Fleetwood

Don Henly (The Eagles)

Tom Petty (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

I even forgot to mention the silicon incident. Or to go into her msic  detail. Or mention all her albums. Or her style or stage persona.

It's kind of been bothering me a bit. I actually hace been thinking about it a lot.

I've even started writing little stories about her life in my notebooks. It's not that weird, I suppose. I write stories about lots of musicians I like. I have only published a little of them online because I don't like to retype things I've already written down online and like to keep most of them to myself. But even after writing forty pages in the last couple of days, I've only covered a few months of her life. Or, more accurately, I've written scenes that in sequence cover a few months, but they are separated. And this is pre-fame stuff. I mean, it's all stupid fiction and I have no clue what actually happened but I like writing about her because she makes such a cool character to write about. But I bet anything I dream up and put down is still nothing compared to what is in her journals.

But it's kind of a bummer that there most likely would not be an accurate movie about her life. Even a slightly inaccurate one would be cool (As long as Lindsay Lohan or some other bimbo is not in it and Holly wood does not TOTALLY fuck it up).

Anyways, I'm stuck with what I imagine and read. But it's true what Stevie said because I always end up reading something new that totally is disputes something I've written and I end up trashing my stuff because it's nothing compared to the truth.

It's still a bummer.

Lily laughs off rocker's texts

EXCLUSIVE LILY LAUGHS OFF MONKEY'S LUSTY TEXTS

14/08/2007

Alex Turner - Arctic Monkeys

Cheeky Arctic Monkey Alex Turner has been sending sexy texts to Lily Allen.

The flirty singer even sent her one message saying that he wanted to spend the night with her.

But we've got some bad news for you Alex and we hope you're sitting down... because she's definitely NOT interested.

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In fact, her and boyfriend Seb Chew find the whole thing completely hysterical - and can't stop laughing about it.

Lily was at the Field Day Festival in Hackney, East London, on Saturday night, when she let slip that she had received a "hilarious" text from Alex.

Our backstage spy tells us: "Lily was on brilliant form all night, chatting to fans and generally larking about with pals and Seb.

"At one point, she got out her phone and told some of her friends that they just had to see this message from Alex.

"Basically he said that he wanted her to go back to his hotel - or that he could go to hers."

Alternatively, he could go to hell!

Our mole adds: "Lily showed a few people before falling about laughing, saying that he had no chance."

And as if to make it crystal clear, Lil, 22, spent the rest of the evening canoodling with Seb. An onlooker said: "They looked really loved up and couldn't keep their hands off each other.

"She clearly loves him and wants the world to know it. Alex had better look elsewhere."

We're pretty sure he will too. For someone who claims to be shy, the 21-year-old certainly has some front when it comes to the ladies.

We revealed how he romped with a mystery girl on a bench at Glastonbury this year in the pouring rain.

But the fun stopped when a spoilsport security guard told them to scarper. Alex has been single since he split up with his girlfriend of two years, Sheffield lass Johanna Bennett.

Lil, on the other hand, has been dating Seb on and off for six years and regularly describes on MySpace how she misses him when she's on tour.

They broke up at the beginning of last year but got back together again thanks to her single Littlest Things.

She said at the time: "It was written about my boyfriend. We'd been broken up a couple of months when it came out and he must have heard it and realised how special I am. He welcomed me back with open arms."

Sorry Alex, this girl's well and truly taken...

[Mirror]

*Tries to imagine texts*

AT: oy lly wuts ur sign?

LA: huh?

AT: ur a rite looking bird, i kwite fancy u

LA: I hav a bf. u hav no chance

AT: fan-c cuming ;) ovr 2 mi diggz 2nite? we could spend the nite 2gether. or shood we go 2 urs?

LA: i dont  lyk u. u smell lyk arse. ill tell frends and tabloyds now abowt this.

AT: u meen + hott. me confusing

LA: U laffing stok. I am drunk and txting better than u.

That was really hard to type.

Ok, now that I have your attention, I don't know if you all know this, all wound up in the world that doesn't exist where who Gerard Way sticks his penis in is an actual issue, but in the real world, it isn't.

I love the band, I love Gerard, they have done a lot for me. And I say this with love.

FUCK GERARD WAY!

Fuck Gerard, fuck Lyn-Z, and fuck anyone with any sort of preoccupation with them. I DON'T CARE RIGHT NOW HE'S A BIG BOY HE DOES NOT NEED YOU WORRYING ABOUT HIM OR DISCUSSING HIM! HE"S A GOOD BOY WHO NEEDS TO BE LEFT ALONE TO MAKE HIS OWN MISTAKES! HE DOES NOT NEED YOU!

Some people who do need you?

This little baby:

And this woman:

And these children:

GUESS WHAT PEOPLE?

There are a few million people crammed into a small section of Sudan in Africa where their own government is pretty much attacking them and giving aid to the people who ran them out of their homes and attack them. There are rebel soldier kidnapping and raping kids to force them to join their militia and meanwhile people are dying of disease, drought, and starvation and their government? Blocking all aid. Nice.

We've got almost as many surveys as we need but still not quite enough.

Here's the link:

http://www.lifenets.net/repost/repost.php?ver=kush&refid=1442

Plus we need donations here:

http://www.uusc.org/programs/support_darfur.html

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Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are set to release a joint 7” record together to celebrate their joint American tour.

The pair play ten dates together, kicking off at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on September 17 and winding up at New York Randall Island on October 6.

The highly limited 7” will be available through their respective websites and sees LCD Soundsystem covering Joy Division’s ‘No Love Lost’ and Arcade Fire take on the Serge Gainsbourg written ‘Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son.’ Expect it to appear on eBay for a hefty sum sometime soon.

Gigwise

Sounds tight. I hope Regine sings on it.

Avril once again acts like a total hypocrite.

No, she didn't slag off Shitney Smears.

The 'Girlfriend' singer told Sunday magazine: "Image is a personal choice. I'd rather be seen as me than for not wearing anything. When I first started out in music I was 17. I didn't want to wear the clothes that everyone wanted me to wear. I wore my tank top and Doc Martens boots and I'm glad I did because I was so different from everyone else."

Oh REALLY?

How does she explain your recent ensembles then?

Like this:

You know when she was wearing that "tube top"? Which didn't exist? Because Tube Tops are not that small? Even if she was wearing one, that still qualifies as using sex to sell records?

Oh how I remember this little quote Avril made back in the day:

“I could be better than Britney but I won’t wear skanky clothes that show my booty, my belly or my boobs”

Ahem.

Is that a skirt or a belt?

OH, but it's not just the Blender shots. Or the ones she did in its more sex-focussed counterpart Maxim. There's also this:

Stacks, anyone?

But what I find funny is that she praises her old roots in bad faux-punk style when she had this to say on the subject not too long ago:

"When I look back now all I can think is, 'God, I was such a s**t'. I was such a tomboy, running around, getting in fights, hanging out with guys. In all my interviews I would have my head down and moodily just grunt an answer. I look back and laugh now as I realize how much I've grown up."

Anyone still fuzzy on her new bout of hypocracy can just read this excerpt from her feature in Blender:

"And then there is the Blender Cover Photo. On the sidewalk, we ask, does she think she's hot? 'HELL YEAH!' she hollers, cracking up and bending over double. "What kind of question is that? Fuck, yeah, I'm hot.' Is it fun to play with that, or do you have mixed feelings about using sex to sell records? 'I don't think of it that way,' she says, getting a look in her eyes like a catthat's just been asked to come down from the refridgerator."

But didn't she just say something about not being seen as someone who wears nothing in the first quote? Hmmmm.

I just thought I'd add some funny bits from that article for all of your amusement.

"Direct questions are poor tactics for learning Lavigne's views on herself. Interrogation on defining themes of her writing (in her songs, she's often the third party,..... and many of her best lyrics are about the search for home), elicit empty stares."

Or my personal favorite:

"Ignoring us, casting her Bermuda Triangle–blue eyes around the garden, she says, 'Didn’t somebody die here or something?' 'John Belushi,' we say. Her pause lasts so long we start counting dust motes in the air. She says, 'That’s right.' Maybe if we talk up the guys in the band … What’s Avril like on the road? Does she share a dressing room with the boys? Is she a towel–snapper? 'A what?' she asks. Everybody’s quiet. Finally, pleadingly, her guitarist says, 'You know,' and defines “towel–snapper” with such diplomacy you want to get that boy a job at the United Nations. Beat. Beat. Beat. Then: 'Oh.'”

Link to excepts

Beat. Beat. Beat.

*waits happily as angry Avrillites come up to attack me and tell me how "haters sucks"*

ETHNIC CLEANSING? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I can't believe this.

I'm sorry, but Hitler is dead. NO MORE NAZI SHIT PLEASE! How does an elected official say something like that? Seriously?

I'm disgusted.

50 Cent has vowed to quit releasing music if Kanye West sells more records than him when their albums are both released on the same day next month, September 11th.

“Let’s raise the stakes,” Fiddy said yesterday. “If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer [perform] music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out any more solo albums.”

We all know he’s lying. But, just in case, we’re gonna buy ten copies of Kanyeizzle’s new album! [Source: Perezhilton.com]

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Okay, both are idiotic fucks with huge heads and great prejudices (Kanye towards caucasions, 50 Cent towards women). But since Kanye did not make that promise and 50 did, the remote chance that he is serious must be taken. If you want to silence 50 forever, buy Kanye's album.

Though I think it is disgusting that they are choosing to stage such a publicity scam on 9/11. It's ok if you want to release something, but to set up something like what 50 is doing on a day that means so much to our nation is vile. Shame on him.

We'll work on Kanye next, but et's get of the talentless one--- Fiddy--- first.

Well first: let's talk about my divine luck last night.

My friend and I had nosebleed seats..... And I mean NOSEBLEED seats. Fucking presales. But anyways, during The Cold War Kids rather mellow set, we came across a couple with those precious purple wristbands. They DID NOT EVEN WANT THEM SO THEY GAVE THEM TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!

So we got into the pit. And it began with a huge scroll of a speech of John F Kennedy's about covert organizations which hid information (Probably the USSR) but as we all know they were using this speech in a whole other context. And then Muse came on and BOOM!

Knights of Cydonia!

They hammered through that song wildly. Next was Map of the Problematique which was nuts good. BY this point I looked over at my friend and asked her if it was worth not leaving to go do something (as she had proposed earlier).

"YESYESYES!"

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

For all those who were wondering: They did not look like they did when I last saw them. Matt was in a black t-shirt and jeans as opposed to a white and silver suit and there was no towel strapped to his ass. He did, however have a fatally bad haircut in which it looked like a clump of his hair was missing. As in I could see the scalp. Chris was all in black and looking incredibly hot. I have to say I was never attracted to him before, but I have since changed my mind. :). Dom of course made sure he was seen and was the one who talked to the crowd the most. He was in a black shirt and cerulean skintight blue pants.

Okay, but back to the show.

It got a bit crazy when they played Hysteria. There was an apt response from the crowd in regards to the name and the frenzy had trouble dying down. It continued with Supermassive Black Hole, though slightly more mellow. Apparently the dudes in fron of me did not like this so they made pathetic attemts to mosh during, of all songs, Invincible and Starlight, finally knocking me out because they were being fucking idiots.

But it was okay, because after that, Dom called out and said "HELLO FAIRFAX!!!" And everyone was happy.

By the time they played City of Delusion, my friend was seriously dehydrated. I made her stay for that one song and promised her we'd go after.  So we stayed and  boy! The image of the City they had projected onto the light screen above them sure was powerful! So much that by the middle of the song you were so caught up in it, like you were one of the inner party members in 1984 and it was the Two Minutes Hate or something. You just wanted that city on there fucking DESTROYED.

They then played Apocalypse Please during which I had to go get water with my friends but I made her run back in case they played Time Is Running Out next. In heels (her, not me, I wore flats).

They didn't.

They played Feeling Good followed by a series of fast songs including Butterflies + Hurricanes and New Born. Then the mosh pit truly started and the dancing ended and I got seperated from my friend and got real close to stage left and within a HUNDRED YARDS OF MATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seemed they were going to leave after that, but they were just fucking with us. They came on with an encore of Bliss, Plug In Baby, and Stockholme Syndrome. But not Take A Bow like everyone had chanted.

Overall the show was fucking awesome and is now tied with the last time I saw them with MCR as my favorite show ever.

Times I cried "Muscle Museum!": Seven

Times I cried "I love you Matt!": Nine

Times I cried "I love you Dom!": Seven

Time I cried "I love you Chris!": Six

Times I cried "Take a Bow": Five

Times I fell: Twice

Times I got Free Hugs: Six (once from a hot guy who kept rubbing my back when I fell!)

Times my friend flashed Chris: Once (she declares now that he saw and was like "Woah!" and that "he is so cool ugh I love him."

Eight Random Things About Notsid

Everyone knows my feelings on April La Peen. I've been pretty much hating on her since the video for Girlfriend came out in february and my response was less than favorable. And everyone was totally cool with that. And I posted a bit more abuse. And everyone was okay with that too. Everyone loved to love me love to hate April La Peen.

Then something creepy happened.

A competition sprung up on buzznet. ON THE SITE ON WHICH MY BELOVED BLOG IS POSTED AND IS COMMENTED ON BY MY BELOVED FELLOW BUZZNETTERS. The competition had people post pictures to compete to be April La Peen's merchandise model.

Of course, knowing this place is one of free speech so I could hate anyone I damn well wanted to hate, so even though April was officially in Cahoots with the big people behind buzznet, I did not get reported or anything. No one made me take anything down. I did not get treated like Jeffree Star was treated by myspace when he wrote that blog exposing Tila Tequila. Why? THIS PLACE ROCKS!

But anyways, the contest got annoying when people kept sending me notes to buzz their Avril pic. Even people who seemed to hate her along with me when I posted about her.

I made a comment and people agreed that it was starting to get weird. Then the contest was over and it died down.

Then I posted another journal about April's nasty comment about Mandy Moore.

And I got two curious comments:

1:

Okay, A) AVril LaVigne is a VERY good singer, she just doesnt sound good singing that poppy crap. B) She never said she WAS punk she just said that she was SINGING punk, which, yes, is a lie. C) A lot of singers/artists whatever, are actors, does that mean she cant act? No. Oh yeah, and she DID grow up and when she said that thing in Seventeen, that was when she started. American Dreamz sucked a big one and was a HUGE waste of my time and money, who knows, I could have been watching Avril's videos over and over again for 3 hours and had that be a better time. Jeez, like Mandy Moore is any better than her, she has a 10x worse voice, nor can she act. I respect your opinion 100% though and Im sorry if I sounded mean.

This one was okay because at least she was acting smart.

2: OMG U ARE SOOOO FUCKIN MEAN!!!! AVRIL IS THE BEST SINGER EVERRRRR SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

This one? Not so much.

My Response to comment 2:

Too late, I posted a brand new blog two days ago before you even read this, so yeah. Second, if you don't like what I have to say, don't read it. Three, if you want to say something to disagree with me, that's fine, but say it like mcr4evur did, you know, with some class and intelligence. Also, Avril is nowhere near A) Frank Sinatra B) Freddie Mercury or C) Stevie Nicks. Just to name a few singers who are better than her.

And I got a thank you from the author of comment #1 for calling her intelligent and classy. See, I don't hate everyone who disagrees with me. I have an open mind and I am tolerant to some degree. Go me.

But it was funny. Someone reacting the venomously towards me hating April La Peen? I mean, I had posted several scathing commentaries on the behaviors of Lily Allen, someone far more hip and accepted on this site that had gotten no dumbass comments like that. Huh?

Then on a post about Avril by the top writers here, it happened again. Someone had merely said "Avril is okay, but I like MCR better" which prompted someone to call this person a bitch. Just for liking MCR better. Not saying anything rude about Avril at all. Many other comments in preferral to MCR and other artists were greeted with a similar response, as were outright negative comments about La Peen.

Later on, I posted a video comparing Avril's song about pants and how she wears them to Peaches "I'm the Kinda". And accused her of song stealing. The author of comment #1 then informed me that I had now brought her to loathe April La Peen as well.

A while later, I stopped focussing on my hatred and turned to love: Love not of Avril, but of Canadian-American septet Arcade Fire. But then when I saw two videos of Avril getting the names of songs she claimed were here favorites wrong, I could not resist. Partly because it involved My Chemical Romance. In the first video she calls MCR's Song "Black Parade" as opposed to it's actual title "Welcome to the Black Parade," then she goes on to mention the director of the video also did "Smells Like Team Spirits." Actually, I know for a fact that Sam Bayer, the director, never did a video for a song called "Smells Like Team Spirits." He did however do a video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the breakout hit of influential 90s alternative band Nirvana.

I got this comment: (call it #3)

1. I'm older than 13. I don't know what dumb idea made you think I was, but I assure you, I'm old enought o have a drivers license

2. I hope you keep it on so everyone knows what a shitfuck you are

Seriously, I'm disgusted and embarrassed. Shit like this is why I sometimes hesitate to say I am a fan of MCR and then rush to defend myself the second I tell people I am.

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Our Favorite Band Is Falling Apart!

My Chemical Romance is probably going to break up at this point... personally i think if stupid Alica didn't come into the picture it would never happen.  Mikey is probably leaving the band because of her.  And Gerard verifys that the band was not working on new material, nor would they be any time soon. But in a sort of postive turn Gerard states:

We're not working on a record. We're touring and getting some distance from writing music. We'll finish out touring, take a break and then come back and write. It will be quite awhile before there's another My Chemical Romance album. We said a lot of what we wanted to say with The Black Parade, so we're going to have to find something completely new to say, and that could take some living, some touring, some hardships. It's all about finding what the next thing is for yourself, for your band, and we're still searching for that. We'll be searching for a while, I think.

So maybe Mikey will come back to the band and they will start again after he spends more time with "his new wife".  I don't think that the members of a a very loved and popular band should get married anyway.  It just ruins everything... i know it sounds like i'm saying that all people in bands should live alone with out a lover to ... well love.... In a way i am saying that but not in a negative way.  You see the boys very dedicated to the band.  They don't want to lose it.  Their fans are like family to them.  And now that Mikey is "married" it could jepordize (i've gotten better at spelling) the chances of the band ... well... prospering. 

So i want all dedicated MCR fans to stand up tall and never stop believing.  Sign here if u love them u don't even have to agree with wat i said just plz sign here:

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You're a dumb heartless cunt. God forbid somebody does something for themselves and gets married. You call this a good cause? That's so pathetic. You make me want to throwup. Just because they are not working on new material RIGHT NOW means nothing. This is just your pathetic attempt to badmouth and discredit Alicia Simmons because you're jealous. Alicia and Mikey were engaged long before TBP was thought up or written. You're an embarrassment to the band and their fans. How is this a good cause? What the fuck are you even trying to do? Get them divorced. Hello! Look at Green Day. Billie Joe had been married for 13 years and the band has taken breaks. I can't get over how ignorant and stupid this is. I love how you are trying to sound intelligent and like you're sounding the alarm on something crucial when it is nothing at all and all you are doing is upsetting people. It really is hilarious how smart you seem to think you are when you're just crazy and have all the brains of a turkey sandwich.

And you're apparently quite a nasty, inconsiderate person too. All Mikey wants to do is be happy. But I guess we can't have that. After all, it might tarnish that "emo" image you no doubt helplessly cling to under the delusion that you yourself are miserable too and therefore "understand" the people in this band.

If I were Mikey or any members of the band, I would be sickened that someone like you considers themself a fan.

People like you set the stereotype upon which I am judged and looked down upon and it makes me sick.

Here is an MCR fan standing up tall and telling brainless, insensitive people like you to shut the fuck up and let the band be happy and live there lives.

If anyone wants to sign THAT petition, be my guest.

PS:

Don’t claim you’ve gotten better at spelling right after misspelling what you no doubt thought was a very smart-sounding word and then go on to spell “what” wrong. It’s sad.

A Few things going on with his death life that are not so good:

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is being sued by a bandmate for using their earnings to buy Nazi paraphernalia, African masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl – and ex Dita Von Teese's $150,000 engagement ring.

The 24-count, 96-page breach-of-contract complaint, filed by founding Marilyn Manson keyboardist Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. in Los Angeles, alleges that Manson, 38, commingled his own money with that of the band’s merchandising and touring companies despite a 1993 partnership agreement.

"Because of Manson and others' fraudulent conduct, Bier has spent almost two decades working for one of the world's most popular rock bands, that has made millions of dollars in profit, and now had almost nothing to show for it," says the complaint, which seeks unspecified general, compensatory and punitive damages as well as lost salary, bonuses and attorneys' fees, which Bier "believes to be in excess of $20 million."

A representative for Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, did not yet respond to a request by PEOPLE for a comment.

According to the suit, band money also paid for Manson's collection of Nazi artifacts, including "SS typewriters, swastika wall tiles he had installed in his home library ceiling with custom rugs made to match and Nazi government coat hangers owned by Adolf Hitler."

Manson is also accused of buying a handbag that once belonged to Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, which he later gave to his then-fiancée (and now estranged wife) Dita Von Teese, and collecting taxidermy models of animals, including a California grizzly and two baboons, as well as the "full skeleton of a 17th-century male in a wheelchair," for a collection in his Chatsworth, Calif., home.

In addition, Bier believes that Manson – who is now dating actress Evan Rachel Wood – used band money to buy Von Teese's $150,000 engagement ring and to fund the couple's lavish 2005 wedding.

The suit goes on to say that Manson, whose albums include Antichrist Superstar, systematically forced out the band's original lineup – in one instance by dousing the drummer's kit with butane and setting it on fire while he was still playing.

The complaint also accuses the singer of spending the money on his drug habit and the production of his upcoming film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll.

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Lawsuits suck, especially when it comes from someone whose been around you forever.

But that's not all!!!

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He made the worst attempt, like, ever, of making fun of Frank Iero, calling him a dwarf, saying there are laws against them.

First of all, part of Frank's charm is that he is a midget. Calling Frank a dwarf is like calling Win Butler Sasquatch.

Then he claimed Frank came over to him at the Hove festival in Norway and "Apologized for some things." Which was funny, because by most people's accounts, Manson himself was not there. Frank saw his bandmates and came over and asked what the problem was.

Seriously, why would Frank do the former and then say what he said to Kerrang!?

Would that not be playing with fire.  MAybe he said some thing like, "Sorry if you think we're ripping you off, but we're not"?

That would make sense.

And then he denied that song he wrote was not about MCR. Um, okay, if that is true, then why did you bring them up in the first place? Or are you just afraid of your own statements now? Since Eat Me, Drink Me's sales peaked at #24 on the Billboard charts and is currently at #39?

Then Manson said he could kick Frank's ass. Um, well I'm sure you're quite proud of the fact that with four+ bandmembers that you could beat up a midget. Congratulations.

But that's still not all!

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Recently, Manson's ex wife had this to say about his self-pitying, self-righteous rants about her and everyone else on the planet.

“I think it’s unfortunate that he’s had to exploit our divorce for the sake of record sales, but you do what you gotta do, I suppose,” muses Dita. “I think most people at this point understand what happened and what they’re dealing with when he’s doing interviews drunk and offering journalists cocaine. It kind of tells you what I might have been up against. I’m just trying to put it past me, I’m happy to be a single girl and have that drama out of my life.”

*cracks whip*

Sorry dude, we know it must suck to be you recently.

I thought maybe Frank was drawing it out a bit, but now I understand.