Due to popular demand, I’m bringing up some of the artful photos from various PETA protests
For the cute brunette from the first volume, click HERE ……….and HERE ……… and HERE.
For another photo from the girl at the top of this page, click HERE.
For more photos from the ‘Running of the Bulls’ protest, click HERE …… and HERE.
And misc, click HERE.
British artist Pete Doherty is officially the Hero of the Year, 2007.
If the end-all-of-everything are the NME awards.
Now, I like Pete Doherty. A lot. As anyone who knows me can probably imagine, I like pretty much anyone who’s thin, has black hair, smokes a lot, and plays music. I loved his old band; I love his new band.
But even I’m not sure about this one.
For those of you who aren’t much into Brit-pop, Pete Doherty is a pro-musician / on-again-off-again junkie / Kate Moss’s on-again-off-again significant other… He was one of the two dubious geniuses behind the Brit-punk band The Libertines before his descent into total junkiedom and exile by every one except the police and the tabloids.
Hero of the Year?
In related news, Carl Barat is ‘very confused’ by Pete Doherty’s recent win, and had this to say when asked about the possibility of a new project with Pete:
“Yeah, actually. He said we should write a musical, which I really want to do. It’s just a matter of timing and sorting it out.”
He goes on to say that it would be in the vein of The Threepenny Opera, except based more on what they know.
I’m pretty excited; I know that I’ve been desperately in need of a lame non-existent project to get pumped about, and this one is perfect!
For a taste of the magic of The Libertines, and to jump on the bandwagon before it gets any later, check out this VIDEO… and for some very ’special’ pictures of Kate Moss to get inside the psyche of Pete click HERE…… and HERE.
Jealousy, Deception, Obsession, Heartbreak, Smut
Ah, the bittersweet joys of online dating.
Sentence comes down on March 19 in the case of Stephen Hailes (48), the jilted online chatter who forwarded naked pictures of his cyber-partner Karen Parker (36) to her husband and every one else in her Hotmail address book.
The ‘crime’ is sending indecent and grossly offensive images by a public communication network; which I guess is illegal in Britain.
More confusing is how this managed to happen in the first place… Not satisfied just sending naked photographs, she also spoke with him on the phone and, most importantly, gave him her e-mail password.
What happened in between that and forwarding involves someone sending flowers, calling constantly, growing jealous, and *gasp* discovering that Karen Parker was not quite web-monogamous, as the term might be.
Sigh…
Forward this to anyone who still thinks that the British have a one-up as far as culture and intelligence goes - the saga of the unemployed single father-of-one, the married grocery-store cashier mother-of-two, and all the heartbreak and scandal that plagues them should cure that fast.
The mad-forwarder faces potential jail time… The scandal-box faces…. um, nothing?
Check out the PG version to see what had this guy losing his mind… right…….. HERE.
The new images from Paris’ topless (kind of) photo-shoot for the magazine 944 were released, thus - as a serious journalist - I have to talk about them.
Mmm, there’s not that much to say. Paris Hilton is lacking full clothing. She is thin. She also looks like she has to go to the bathroom really badly…
Mostly it’s just hard to think of any actual content to go along with these pictures with my hand under the table…
Desperately trying to soothe my groin from the spontaneous outbreaks of herpes and nine other STDs that exploded in my crotch just from looking at this picture.
For those of us who fondly remember the more wholesome (ever-so-slightly) Paris Hilton, click HERE and reminisce.
PETA’s always had a kind of nervous habit as far as public nudity goes… and by nervous habit I mean young cute naked chicks. Mostly interns, according to PETA’s official site.
You know, I think every company and organization should try and find a way to incorporate nudity into company literature and promotion. Personally, I’m kind of tired of getting pre-approved credit card offers from a business that can’t even manage to talk an easily influenced girl into public nudity. And what about those people standing around on street corners asking for money to stop global warming? Just think about it. Or pizza delivery? Or the DMV?
And don’t even get me started on Victoria’s Secret. That place is just completely missing the point.
Slightly back on track, PETA doesn’t just get college freshman, they get celebrities naked too - like Alicia Silverstone, Eva Mendes, Steve-O [Yeah, no link there wise guy] Sophie Monk…
B-List celebrities aside, PETA’s real legacy, aside from all the actual work it does, are all the averagely cute girls and the occasional stand-out gymnast, vegan, pure-bundle-of-positive, um, hotness that they get to pose. Naked. Here.
Now, I’m going to go heat up some To-Furky…
Because I’m cool like that.
I know this is some pretty old news, but… get over it.
For those of you who don’t live to read US Magazine - pseesh - the forty year old former child star married a 22 year old non-famous girl in Nevada, and then kept it a secret for 6 months at which point he went on TV saying that they haven’t slept together, and that he loves it when she sells his stuff on eBay.
I hate to dredge this up again, but does any part of this story make sense?
I mean, I understand why Gary would marry her, because she’s pretty good looking (for Gary Coleman), but why keep it a secret?
Unless she didn’t want to become quasi-famous for marrying Gary Coleman… but why? For his commercials for CashCall..?
Or does she just love eBay so much that the concept of selling all of a broke Gary Coleman’s possessions made her vagina foam uncontrollably.
But why no sex? Why talk about it?
HERE’S a picture of the happy couple, and they do look happy. So happy it’s almost sad.
I generally run a tight news machine here, but I felt the need to share a human interest story with you.
Gemma Atkinson is holding some huge bowling balls.
You might not be able to tell from this photograph, but, well… let’s just say that those bowling balls are pretty good substitutes for two other giant round things…
Now, I run an family friendly enterprise here, so that’s as bad as I’m going to get. No naughty Gemma pictures like THIS one, or THIS other one, or THIS other one…
Mmm, now that’s some good filler.
For anyone who doesn’t have any idea who these people are - and didn’t see their performance at the NME Awards - hang your eyes upon the new Sonny and Cher of indie-pop.
Jarvis Cocker and some fat chick with a tramp stamp.
Well, Beth Ditto… So, some fat chick with a tramp stamp and a really loud voice.
The performance is actually pretty good, and Jarvis Cocker’s the man, so I’ll forgive him for allowing this picture to exist - though he kind of already kind of redeems himself by attempting to will himself into invisibility with his psychic powers… or whatever the hell he’s doing in this photograph.
If I didn’t know it was Beth Ditto I’d think it was pretty cool… I mean, what could be better than Jarvis making things explode with his mind while posing like a GI Joe next to a swollen tranny goldfish with a tramp stamp..?
Anyone want to make an animated series?
Their live version of Heaven 17’s dubiously classic track ‘Temptation’ is available exclusively on digital download from iTunes, with the proceeds going to some weird English charity; something about sheltering kids and puppies and stroking.
Since shedding her post-punk grrl rocker image, Avril has somehow managed to blast out a winning streak of pure, original versatility unseen in culture since Homer.
In this interview with MTV, she shows an unimaginable, super-human depth of creativity.
‘I just wanted the show to be more showy.’
Thank you, Jesus, for all signs of your love.
Thank you, Avril, for leading the attack against shows that aren’t really shows at all.
I can just imagine her inner monologue defining her vision of this spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime event:
‘I’m Avril Lavigne; I’m pretty cool. What should I do with my show? Well, first off, I need a name - something cool, and original… Well, my album was called The Best Damn Thing, and I had a song called, ‘The Best Damn Thing’, maybe I could find a way to incorporate that… WAIT! I KNOW! I’ll call it The Best Damn Tour! But it needs to be really cool, and definitely needs to match my new feminine streak. I’ll get some back-up dancers, get a lot of pink instruments, and some cool LED displays. Show’s are so lame unless they’re show-y. Hey, that’s a good way to describe it. I’ll put on a show-y show, and make it really really really pink!’
Genuflect before this deity of art.
In a related story, has anyone seen these boob pictures? I mean, since when does Avril Lavigne have distinguishable cleavage? And when did my pants get so tight? And this post so awkward… and creepy…
A new web-site www.slicethepie.com popped up recently offering a way for artists to get financing for an album even further away from the major label dinosaur.
Where?
Straight from the fans.
Offering to connect artists with an internet full of self-described A&R people and playing out the idea of everyone being an investor, Slice the Pie aims to simplify the whole process by giving amateurs complete control.
It’s too soon to know if this will break out, but it’s refreshing to see that someone is thinking way, way, way outside the box.
For all their talk about being non-exclusive and ‘artist friendly’, I had a really hard time understanding all of the ramifications of securing financing through them.
Which is completely understandable.
After all, would you invest in an artist if there seemed to be any kind of chance that the $15,000 would be blown on strippers and coke?
No. And neither would anyone else.
The snag in this comes from the motivation of the people choosing to invest in these artists. Are they looking for someone they want to listen to? Or someone that they think that everyone else will.
Hopefully, this will lead to more of this kind of extreme innovation, but I think we’ll all have to keep hoping for something better.
