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this is GIRLUSH FIGURE and we hate you

I met the band Girlush Figure at a show in New Orleans a few years ago. They are not, like, the best band I ever heard, but they are one of the most fun.

Check out the 2 newest tracks from Girlush Figure on their MP3.com site. The newest tracks are "Welcome To Oblivion" + "Ghost." Both are from their forthcoming album "Rotten To The Core" to be released by Rodent Popsicle Records out of Boston any day now. They are always on the road and deserve your support. Buy their albums, stickers and thongs!

Rock & Roll is Dead

Clay Aiken just got done singing "Bridge Over Trounled Water" on The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.
His performanmce to the live orchestration was flawless. The spirit was so thick you could spread it like butter. After a minute off stage, while the standing ovation continued, Clay came back out , after Jerry called for him several times, Clay's embrace of the portly , comic promoter was nothing to rival Britney and Madonna, it fact it was rather "grandfatherly".

Beaming Jerry says, "Clay Aiken,,,, the real winner from day one !"

I wanted to throw-up.

MORE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE MURDER OF JAM MASTER JAY

In an exclusive interview with SOHH.com, an informant revealed that Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay was killed over drug money and shared shocking information on Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen's parts in Jay's murder. According to the source, the police's latest efforts are only smokes and mirrors. Jay allegedly began digging his own grave when he bought 10 kilos of cocaine from a Milwaukee supplier in June of last year. With protection from Ronald "Tinard" Washington, a man whom has been said to fit the killer's description, Jay went to Washington D.C. to pick up drugs before going to Baltimore to a point man who then vanished with the dope without leaving a dime. Jam Master Jay was allegedly under pressure to reimburse the drug money, a sum that he obviously didn't have. Though a few whispers have been heard on Jay's possible drug dealing past, the focus of the investigation quickly shifted elsewhere.

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In better news: One of the hottest mixtapes on the streets, besides Green Lantern's Conspiracy mixtape, is DJ Vlad and Dirty Harry's collaborative effort, The Notorious B.I.G.: Rap Phenomenon. The mixtape features hot blends of classic Biggie verses over new millennium beats such as 50 Cent's "What's Up Gangsta" and the Nas' "Oochie Wally". Also included on the tape is almost Big's entire catalog featuring classic appearances and freestyles. If you don't know where to buy mixtapes in your 'hood (they don't actually sell them at Tower) try here.

A collective sigh of relief...

Baz Luhrmann's agent at ICM tells the New York Post that he has no intention of directing Britney Spears in a remake of 'Footloose', as was earlier reported in the British press.

Why I Hate Schwarzenegger

Arnie Schwarzenegger from a 1970's documentary in which he is seen smoking a joint at a party.

The question I get the most is why I want to ruin a perfectly good blog writing bad things about Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I personally find the idea of Schwarzenegger as the govornor of California offensive.

He has never ran for any office but wants to be governor. The only other high profile business he had he ran it into the fucking ground (Planet Hollywood). He runs as a Republican but doesn't support Republican values. He has a scary attitude toward minorites and women (Veiw My Archives). And I can't understand half of what he says.

He is no more of a viable canidate to me than the other Arnold (Gary Coleman). If Californians feel the need to support someone with an accent, make it Arianna Huffington. At least she has cool commercials.

Or you can just watch the video of Arnold smoking pot.

Arnold the Barbarian

“The second I walked into the room,” Anna Richardson says, several weeks after the incident, “he was like a dog in heat.” Other stories about Schwarzenegger tend to fit her simile. During the production of the 1991 mega-blockbuster “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a producer on that film recalls Arnold’s emerging from his trailer one day and noticing a fortyish female crew member, who was wearing a silk blouse. Arnold went up to the woman, put his hands inside her blouse, and proceeded to pull her breasts out of her bra. Another observer says, “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This woman’s nipples were exposed, and here’s Arnold and a few of his clones laughing. I went after the woman, who had run to the shelter of a nearby trailer. She was hysterical but refused to press charges for fear of losing her job. It was disgusting.” Arnold the Barbarian by John Connolly (Premiere Magazine)

Think Concert Ticket Prices are too high?

Well, they are only going to get higher.

Late this year the company (Ticketmaster) plans to begin auctioning the best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.

With no official price ceiling on such tickets, Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.

"The tickets are worth what they're worth," said John Pleasants, Ticketmaster's president and chief executive. "If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it's actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket's worth $1,000. I think more and more, our clients — the promoters, the clients in the buildings and the bands themselves — are saying to themselves, `Maybe that money should be coming to me instead of Bob the Broker.' "

--New York Times

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The Return Of Alicia Keyes

Rumors have been flying for a long time about Alicia Keys. (And not because she dresses like Erika in Big Brother 4) J Records is very much in the red on her first Album dispite Grammys coming out of the ass. She only had one hit single and a lot of her sales are accused of being inflated.
Below are some of the ideas and rumours I've heard about her latest work.

When the new album debuts this fall, the label will be looking for corporate sponsors. These sponsors are supposed to each cough up $400,000. In exchange, they will get private screenings of a one-hour DVD, which the pop star will host. The star will then give this group of roughly 500 people (including "key radio, press, retail, and tastemakers") a special private show.

Called the DVD Cinema Tour, this special program will extend to 10 U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C.

For the $400,000, the corporate sponsor will receive: Logo inclusion on the invitations, logo inclusion on the step and repeat board (this is lingo for the backdrops against which we see celebrities on TV and in photo shoots from red carpet premieres), special signs at the events and 50 tickets for the top execs (yes!) worth $8,000 apiece at the corporation.

Mind you, this is a proposal for the record label and maybe the artist to make extra money off the release of this big-deal album.

I use to read a lot of crap about Keyes lifting ideas for songs and lyrics from old R&B songs. Figured it was just jealousy. I saw a comparison of lyrics for "Impossible" (Keys written ballad for Xtina) and a song Aretha did called "Ain't No Way" and it was so obvious.

I'm surprised that Aretha's people haven't done anything about it.

But enough bashing.
Here's a link to the unofficial street single. It's called "Streets Of New York" and features Nas and Rakim. Judge for yourself.

Arnold's Racist Comments

ABC NEWS has spiked an interview with a close associate of Arnold Schwarzenegger who went on camera and accused the California gubernatorial candidate of making racist comments back in the 1970s, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Charges of past racist comments by Schwarzenegger were leveled by Rick Wayne, sources claim, a former bodybuilding star who is now the publisher of the St. Lucia Star.

Wayne, who is black, told ABC NEWS that Schwarzenegger made the comments regarding South Africa's former Apartheid system:

"If you gave these blacks a country to run, they would run it down the tubes," Schwarzenegger allegedly said.

The interview was taped and set for airing but was spiked, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The first rule of Fight Club...

The Well Read Wench has a posting about what literary characters or writers would you like to see battle it out in the ring?

I personally would like to see Chuck Palahnuik vs. Bret Easton Ellis. Not because those are the only writers I know, but more because I think Chuck has a good chin.

Chuck has a new book out, btw.

From Publishers Weekly
With a first page that captures the reader hook, line and sinker, Palahniuk (Choke; Lullaby) plunges into the odd predicament of Waytansea Island resident and ex-art student Misty Marie Kleinman, whose husband, Peter, lies comatose in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt. Rooms in summer houses on the mainland that Peter has remodeled start to mysteriously disappear-"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing"-and Misty, with the help of graphologist Angel Delaporte, discovers that crude and prophetic messages are scrawled across the walls and furniture of the blocked-off chambers. In her new world, where every day is "another longest day of the year," Misty suffers from mysterious physical ailments, which only go away while she is drawing or painting. Her doctor, 12-year-old daughter and mother-in-law, instead of worrying about her health, press her to paint more and more, hinting that her art will save exclusive Waytansea Island from being overrun by tourists. In the meantime, Misty is finding secret messages written under tables and in library books from past island artists issuing bold but vague warnings. With new and changing versions of reality at every turn, the theme of the "tortured artist" is taken to a new level and "everything is important. Every detail. We just don't know why, yet." The novel is something of a departure for Palahniuk, who eschews his blighted urban settings for a sinister resort island, but his catchy, jarring prose, cryptic pronouncements and baroque flights of imagination are instantly recognizable, and his sharp, bizarre meditations on the artistic process make this twisted tale one of his most memorable works to date.

If Chucks a bit too in your face you could always read what marc weisblott is reading. Just keep in mind he's a Canadian.