Sid! Sid, where are you?! I have to post about stupid bands and/or betches, AGAIN tonight.
Tonight, it's all about that betch Amy Lee.
Look! Another stupid Amy in the music world! And shut up, Mitch Connors, I DO NOT remind you of her. Just like I am in no way, reminiscent of Rosie. Ever. ::mutter mutter:: Stupid Frass ::mutter mutter::
NEW YORK (Billboard) -- The guitarist and drummer with Evanescence have left the top-selling rock act for undisclosed reasons.
Guitarist John LeCompt claimed on his MySpace.com blog that he was fired during a cell phone conversation with singer Amy Lee, while drummer Rocky Gray said he was asked by band management not to discuss the situation.
However, Lee said in a statement that Evanescence remains "alive and well" and will soon return to the road with new musicians.
"John and Rocky were in Evanescence for four years and we shared some great times together playing live, but they were ready to move on and so we have parted ways," she said. "Evanescence is something I have loved and nurtured since I was 14, and I will continue to protect and fight for it as I always have.
LeCompt did not paint the situation so rosily on his blog. "Without any warning or negotiations for my future, I was fired for no good reason," he said. "We have not always seen eye to eye on everything, but who does? Our common goal was always the same. To make Evanescence the best rock band it could ever be. I have always given blood, sweat and tears to make that happen but apparently that is not enough. I have now become just another of the people fallen by the wayside on the revolving door of her life."
LeCompt was referring to the messy 2003 departure of founding guitarist Ben Moody, who was replaced by former Cold principal Terry Balsamo, and the 2006 exit of bassist Will Boyd, who was replaced by former Revolution Smile guitarist Tim McCord.
Lee said no shows would be canceled due to the lineup shift, but the group won't have long to draft replacements for LeCompt and Gray. It is due to return to the stage May 19 at the first Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, and has European dates on tap through late June.
Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.
Three things -
1. H1's right to ask, "If you have but one of your original members, are you still the same band?"
2. I did so enjoy reading LeCompt's assessment of the situation and of Amy Lee's character.
3. Amy The Stupid Lee, what the f.? Did you think just because Korn asked you to cover "Freak On a Leash" you're hot shit? I'm sorry to say it to Korn but you guys went downhill ever since Head found Jeebus. And though I may hate David, his ass was smart to leave or go on 'hiatus' as it were. Korn! Your time is done and working with Amy Lee made you lose whatever creds you had left. ALL.
On a side note, I've come to a realization in the past few days.
You know how I always rant that if it's female and sings then chances are TD5 loves it? I now know that, in addition to this, if it's female and sings then chances are I hate it.
And on another random note, but still music related, did anyone see the video for The Red Hot Chili Peppers' new song? Let us just say...RHCP going street made me incredibly scared yet I couldn't... look... away.
Maybe it was AK's big, gold grill? Or the fact that I never thought I'd hear the words "Hump de Bump" come out of his mouth? Well, one thing's for sure, I knew the day would come that if that ever happened, it'd sound stupid. And sure enough...
- Or 2, weeding out the assholes since 1992.
Currently listening to: "Teddy Picker" by Arctic Monkeys. Now THERE's a band. Yeah. At this time one week from now, I'll be too tired to blog but really wanting to. I love you, Alex! He is a clever little man, isn't he?
Pandy wanted to leave you a response to your comment on the Dragon Boat Incident. If I may refresh your memory, your comment was "is that the MC in a hello kitty floatie? Was that a pommie ship?".
Pandy would have left his comment in the comment section, if not for the jpeg response he needed to leave. While he understands that you were trying to rag on MC, he feels you still crossed a line. I have offered to post his response here. It is as follows:
This is For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Called A Pussy
The concert is very soon! Just about one week away and the plan is to create a new tradition. The last time we were at the Hammerstein, we had Popeye's Chicken before the show and as we all know that show was Matisyahu, and the only good thing about that night was the chicken.
Well, we expect Arctic Monkeys will be better than the chicken but we started something we'd like to continue. The plan then, is to get Fraas to have chicken waiting for us when we get there. A pre-show feast, if you will.
However, in typical H1 fashion, I present to you a warning to Alex Turner.
Notes: **indicates disclaimers
H1: If Arctic Monkeys doesn't perform "Old Yellow Bricks", I will toss a chicken bone at Alex Turner.
Or 2: What?! Toss it at the bassist! (** in the event Nick O'Malley reads this ever, I heart you too, really I do!)
H1: Nope. I'll toss it at that big nose of his. (** in the event Alex Turner ever reads this, she didn't mean it.)
Or 2: Awww. Don't make fun of him and his nose...
And the conversation continued later that night
Or 2: do you like my new picture of Alex? (**it's a profile pic. on GChat so it's relatively small)
H1: are those muscles?
Or 2: yep
H1: well, they don't make his nose look so big
Or 2: ... It just means if you toss a chicken bone at him, he could probably go hooligan on you.
H1: oh no oh no
Or 2: that's how he got those muscles in the first place
H1: he will get cut
Or 2: by hooligan-ing
H1: I have Frass with me
Or 2: I'm fairly certain Alex could take out Frass
H1: yes but not before he gets cut. I will throw Frass under the bus to hear "Old Yellow Bricks".
Or 2: Hahahahahahahahahaha
H1: I'll have Fraas collect up a heap of chicken bones to throw at Alex Turner. And if the biscuit isn't very good, he could throw that as well.
Or 2: What about the mystery meat rice?
H1: No! Can't make good mystery meat rice go to waste! What is wrong with you?!
We're sorry, Beetchie, but we heard that new The White Stripes song "Icky Thump" today and hated it. We felt it lacked direction, as H1 says "Where is this song going?". The cacophony really made us crazy. It was god awful.
On a side note, and a rant from H1, "Beck's "Nausea" is vomit-inducing stuff, that."
This is the first of the Random Posts for tonight. We were on a roll today. But why is it about Amy Winehouse. Again?
Maybe it had something to do with what dlisted.com was reporting, something about rumours thus far are that the DAAWD (Diseased Alcoholic Anorexic Whore Druggie) - (for those of you not keeping track of our assessment of her) may appear in the next Bond movie.
And the conversation that ensued -
H1: ewwwww Or 2: ew, what? H1: http://dlisted.com/node/9622 (this will take you to the article) Or 2: is this going to upset me? .... She'll die before that happens. She'll die before she's made Bond Girl. H1: her feet are huuuuge Or 2: her feet are as large as her head. She looks like something that crawled out of a mossy, dead tree stump. A troll? Yeah, that's it.
Alright, this episode was boring save the Vizard scenes.
In an unrelated topic, we ask the questions, How? and Why?
First, the How:
How does Ichigo know he's in Soul Society? Everything looks like a frickin' desert in that show unless it's his inner soul which looks like Neo-Tokyo or the regular world. Ah, I know. The rocks are slllightly different in SS.
And, the Why:
Why...does Ichigo's Hollow have Chicken Feet?
Hmmmm...
Kon Abuse Sighting: 1 Omake Scene. Lion-Headed Bun? Oh my...
TD5! Check out Tokyo Police Club unless you already know them!
Gave it a quick whirl today (you know, quick 'cause I had to get back to Arctic Monkeys), they have a 7 song EP out and the songs are short, witty and catchy.
I like it so far!
Maybe that'll change after May 15th?
I've collected hundreds of new songs and all require my attention... I'm already overwhelmed.
Can someone explain to me why MUSE just announced a show at Madison Square Garden on August 6th?
1 week after I bought my blasted tickets to London?!
I am so unimpressed right now...
SO unimpressed.
Matt better watch it because I'm so going to be "A (Alex) S (Stacy) Hoell (Ho+Bell), the 'e' is silent" very soon...
Anyway. You know my birthday's coming up in October. Who wants to buy me an early birthday present and come with me to the show? Well, I see how it went down when I wanted a Christmas present of a WS ticket, so let me re-phrase... who wants to come with me for my birthday?
Talk to me by tomorrow! I have the opportunity to do the pre-sale!
(see how fast I got over that?)
Alright, I await your remarks riddled with assholery (if I may use a Beetchie term)
We may have to do these on a weekly basis, or at least as we see fit to do updates.
While no sinking may have gone down yesterday during training, a new member of the team joined - Horace who was drilled in the ways of being "the man at the helm".
Pandy's account is as follows:
Or 2: How goes it today, Stupendous Man?
Pandy: training was rough. Horace was the one to take a dive for the team today
Or 2: he didn't sink the boat, did he?
Pandy: no, he saved us all by sacrificing himself
Or 2: because that's the kind of thing I'd expect from him. ahahahaha. Yeah, that's much like him too. Should have kicked MC out the boat to save everyone, is what SM should have done
Pandy: lol! MC didn't sink us today but his side of the boat was riding pretty low in the water :)
Or 2: because one side of lopsided assback is longer than the next, I told you. Anyway, watching Sopranos?
Pandy: he he he, nah, trying to figure out where we ran into problems today
Or 2: ha. very nice. Don't forget to strongly consider the lopsided assback
Pandy: he he he, will do.
And today, MC's account of yesterday's events:
Or 2: I hear Horace took one for the team yesterday? now HE's a Jack Bauer
MC: Ha far from. He's a Tony Almeda
Or 2: the true hero of the show?
MC: Almost took us to Tobago. Hell No. Dead ass Tony. We didn't sink yesterday, but then again Pandy wasn't on the boat much. hmmmmmm
Or 2: I told you to paddle to Tobago. Jazz Festival was on. Oh, is that the story?
MC: Horace was taking us there..trust me. He was at the helm and next thing we knew, we were in the middle of the Ocean
Or 2: ahahahahahaahahahahaha
MC: I was like "Oh no". "Not again"
Or 2: hahahahaha. "at least it wasn't me this time". ?. What is this dragon boat training for, exactly?
MC: The dragon boat racing competition in June. Where we race against other teams. Its an annual event. We're the Sea Spartans. We plan to have red capes and speedos.
... ah, goo'd times.
And now for a final word from Pandy for today -
Pandy: ...well, all you missed was when Horace took one for the team after MC started to rock the boat from left to right. There's actually some video footage which Horace will try to upload. Don't want to sell anyone out but if u slow it down to 1/8 speed see if u see anyone paddling air :P
And so we await the video footage. The Dragon Boat Incident: Chapter IV is pending.
Quote of today from H1: If I were in Trinidad still, I would join the Dragon Boat team. I wouldn't join Pandy's Dragon Boat, I'd join another team. There wouldn't be as many laughs but at least I'd be dry. And winning.
VP = creepy, scary man who loves him some blondes, including Karen Hayes?
Nadia = bitch we'd like to see get her ass handed to her in the very near future...like in two minutes
Horlicks = a drink with a conscience? But oh, not listening to Jack Bauer. Jack will pay you back for that. So watch your milky ass!
Audrey = dazed and confused because her NBC show got cancelled only to be dropped in a show that's losing its fans fast.
Chloe crying in the corner = a broken-hearted Or 2.
Ok, the line for tonight from The Sec. of Defense: Jack, you are a curse.
And my line for tonight's episode: That Audrey/Jack Sleeping Beauty scene was vomit worthy. He should have just sired her and be done with the whole thing.
• Billions of bees have mysteriously vanished since late last year in the U.S. • Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil • One-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination, mostly by honeybees • Some beekeepers are losing 50 percent of their bees to the disorder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Go to work, come home.
Go to work, come home.
Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.
Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.
The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil.
Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
If the bees were dying of pesticide poisoning or freezing, their bodies would be expected to lie around the hive. And if they were absconding because of some threat -- which they have been known to do -- they wouldn't leave without the queen. Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.
H1 and I figure they've gone here, most likely:
Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet POSTED: 11:58 a.m. EDT, April 26, 2007
Story Highlights • NEW: Planet could conceivably house life outside our solar system • NEW: Discovery a "significant step" on way to finding possible life in universe • NEW: Planet, dubbed 581 c, orbits red dwarf star Gliese 581 • NEW: Newly found planet full of liquid water, scientist believes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- European astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our solar system, and here's what it might be like to live there:
The "sun" wouldn't burn brightly. It would hang close, large and red in the sky, glowing faintly like a charcoal ember. And it probably would never set if you lived on the sunny side of the planet.
You could have a birthday party every 13 days because that's how fast this new planet circles its sun-like star. But watch the cake -- you'd weigh a whole lot more than you do on Earth. (Learn more about exoplanets)
You might be able to keep your current wardrobe. The temperature in this alien setting will likely be a lot like Earth's -- not too hot, not too cold.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Notes on this:
1. This new planet probably has bloggers and scientists talking smack about us right now.
2. The bees are probably absconding from a threat - yeah, it's called the Queen! That's why she's there without her slaves!
PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Workers digging at the site of a future Wal-Mart store in suburban Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that's estimated to be about 10,000 years old.
Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer hurried out to the site Friday when he got the news that the owner of a nursery was carefully excavating bones found at the bottom of a hole being dug for a new ornamental citrus tree.
"There's no question that this is a camel; these creatures walked the land here until about 8,000 years ago, when the same event that wiped out a great deal of mammal life took place," Archer told The Arizona Republic.
Wal-Mart officials and Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz have already agreed that the bones will go directly on display at ASU.
Archer said some of them may be placed on display very soon, but most will take several months "to get sorted out and stabilized."
"In my 15 years at ASU doing this work I can think of six or seven times when finds this important have been made," Archer said. "This is the first camel. Others have been horses, once a mammoth on Happy Valley Road. This sort of thing is extremely rare."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Apparently, I have a guilty-pleasure album. I don't think I've any business liking Klaxons but I kind of do. I admit it! And it's shameful. That's my early review.
As for The Fratellis...they're fun but I can't really focus on them too much. I'll have to give them a better spin a few more times. So far, my impression is that they can get annoying. Fun but annoying. You know how I feel about too many 'la la la -s' and other type noises in a song and they're that kind of band. It brings back memories of those stupid Kaiser Chiefs...
Okay.
I'm well aware that it's no secret once it goes on the blog but you other baka shouldn't judge me.
There's not much to say this week as Beetchie and I agree that the episode was very much all over the place this week.
So in choosing a topic, I'm going with the hotties this week in the Bleach Universe - The "Super" Hiyori Machine!
And Ichigo "training" on the machine.
Shinji's tongue ring!
And Shinji. Still the new love of my life and the kind of boy you just don't mess with when things get serious.
Ichigo's Hollow!
I know, Beetchie, you don't really care for him in this form but I still like his crazy white ass.
Here's some food for thought that Beetchie and I have been wondering about:
1. Now, when people go to train, is it the same desert space? Is it one huge desert that Urahara, Yourichi, and the Vizards all share? And is it in Soul Society because SS looks lik ea total wasteland for the most part...
And finally, that frickin' Omake chapter cracked me the hell up. When the soul mod capsule and Kon's 'perfecto' plushie body hit Yachiru's head...I couldn't stop laughing and I'm still laughing right now just thinking about it.
You are like Seishirou Sakurazuka from Tokyo Babylon and X. Um... that's scary. People who do not know you very well may very well think that you are a kind and gentle soul - someone who loves animals and cares about the environment. But really, you probably couldn't care less. Your true nature is that you are a bit obsessive and antisocial. And maybe a bit of a stalker. And all of this would be a bad thing... if you weren't so damn cool.
source: www.quizfarm.com :: Who Is Your Inner CLAMP Character?
But notice, I AM a cool kid. Ignore the blood.
And it turns out that H1 is also like Seishirou, minus the stalking bit.
