So, I go to the doctors last week and find out that I have mono. Wonderful. Which, not only sucks because my girlfriend won’t touch me, but it ALSO sucks because I’m scheduled to have Release weekend in Atlantic City this weekend followed by a second Release weekend in Philly. Now, AC can still happen, as I can still gamble, but it’s looking like I have to postpone Philly.
I just want to send out a big “f*ck off†to whoever gave me mono. However, I decided to take this opportunity to see if the Atkins diet actually works, since my love of beer was the only thing keeping me from trying it. We’re starting at 222… let’s see where it goes. I dropped 20 on Slimfast before it balanced out, so let’s see what Atkins does.
Overwhelmingly nonexistent response to the new feature. Remember, What it means to me is something you’re supposed to write for me, not something where you give me a song and I write one. However, I will.
Yahoo! Sucks
OK, usually my first stop on Monday evenings when I assemble this news report is Yahoo Music News via Reuters.
So, I get there tonight… and here are the headlines I have to work with.
Timberlake Set to Shine at MTV Europe Awards , Haggard Speaks Out ‘Like Never Before’, Black Eyed Peas Stay Atop UK Charts , ‘Baby Boy’ Notches Airplay Honors for 7th Week , Barbra Streisand Readies New ‘Movie’ , Make-Or-Break Time for Da Band , Dannii Minogue Hopes ‘Neon’ Will Shine in U.S. , Gold’s ‘Friends’ Help on Philly Set , and Iraq’s National Orchestra to Play in Washington
So, I get one story about Justin Timberlake, who I wish would spontaneously combust and who gets to add to the list of reasons why I won’t watch the NBA anymore next year. The Black Eyed Peas, who could die for all I care. Beyoncee, who didn’t even have the decency at the VMA’s to PRETEND she was singing. Barbra Streisand, who is vomit inducing in about four-hundred different ways. Making The Band 2 news.
Ugh, the state of music sometimes just makes me want to swallow a shotgun.
VIP Passes
VIP ticket passes seem to be the newest revenue sources for touring artists.
Starting with Sammy Hagar’s last tour, who offered a $200 package to fans for an opportunity to get onstage with him, a meet n greet with picture, a T-shirt, a coupon for his online store, and a Yard Margarita made with his Cabo Wabo Tequila.
I guess I’m torn between whether I like this or not. I mean, on one hand, it’s really cool… on the other hand, it’s always made me sick when people charge for autographs. It’s like “who the f*ck are you to charge me for your signature?†But, I guess, at least Sammy makes it worth your while. On stage, an autographed picture. Is two hundred bucks too much for a night you’ll remember for the rest of your life?
Nah, probably not.
I don’t expect any newer artists to do this, but if it works, I expect to see a lot of the old guard take it up.
Welcome to the Neighborhood
According to the NY Post, Fifty Cent has bought himself a new house. Fiddy picked up Mike Tyson’s 61-room mansion in Connecticut, lost in a divorce proceeding to his second wife, from said ex-wife for the low bargain price of $4.1 million dollars. Not that cheap to us, until we read a little further down to see that the house was once valued at $50 million dollars.
The house contains 18 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, 14 half-baths, a man-made waterfall, a racquetball court, seven kitchens, a theater, an elevator, a 1000 person nightclub, and a 1500 square foot gym. The house went on the market (when the idiot wife realized she’d have to pay the taxes on the freakin place) for $25 million, was eventually reduced to $12 million, and then sold to Fiddy for $4 million.
Unsurprisingly, the folks in the small, quiet town aren’t TOO excited about having a guy who has a well-publicized feud with many different people with gunmen moving into town, but the real estate agent promises that if any shenanigans go on, it will be dealt with wit da quickness.
Congrats, Mr. Cent… you got rich, and haven’t yet died tryin.
Machinehead Show
Machinehead will be performing a secret club show under the name Imperium to rustle up some support for their fifth studio album Through the Ashes of Empires. Opening for the show will be Crisis, a band from around these parts who have always had a distinct sound, if Karyn Crisis would realize that no one really wants to hear her try to sing metal.
Crisis could have been Evanescence about five years ago.
Regardless, the album is scheduled for a European release on 10/27 through Roadrunner… and follows up 2001’s Supercharger. The special edition version of the disc will have six demo tracks and a live video for The Blood, The Sweat, And the Tears.
The band is still looking for a North American record deal following their split with Roadrunner Records’s US Branch.
Anyone got pre-leaked copies of the tracks?
Follow Up
As reported here two weeks ago, the band Hell on Earth is planning on having a live suicide take place on their stage during a show in Florida. Well, if you can imagine, St. Petersburg the city wasn’t too keen on the idea and had an emergency meeting Monday morning. They took the HUGE step of outlawing the promotion of “live suicides†anywhere in the city.
The band, in response, said the ordinance won’t stop them from conducting the event, nor will the fact that the venue, State Theater, cancelled the event out from under them.
Billy Tourtelot, the lead singer, said that the move would not stop the concert or the suicide, and that the event will take place from an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg and, if necessary, be broadcast over the band’s website. He also swears this is not a publicity event, but a promotion of doctor assisted suicide.
Tourtellot says to Bay News 9: “How in America can you put people to death through lethal injection because they’re voted not to live [by a jury]. Then you go right around and say that this person who needs to have an assisted suicide can’t because we don’t want them to.”
More on this story as it develops.
Out This Week
After the release storm that was last week, not much seems to be happening this week. We have the new release from Dido… and that about covers it.
Last week, I bought 4 CDs… that’s more CDs than I’ve bought in years.
In Other Reading
Yeah, I’m already sick of this for the week… music has an incredible tendency to irritate me like no other.
In Conclusion
Sorry about the shortness, just not feeling it today. I figure something is better than nothing, right?
Right?
