Stranger Than Fiction Week 33
Yes, there’s still no frontman piece like I said. Between the new job and House DVDs I’ve little to no time for anything. Today we’re jumping back to a classic STF format, so sit back and enjoy.
PLEASE TAKE HER! TAKE HER FAR, FAR AWAY
From Music News:
A clergy of Austrian monks have invited Amy Winehouse to spend some time with them at their monastery. The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, who have released their own album of Gregorian chants, are sort-of fans of Amy. They like the music but don’t agree with the lyrics.
“For 10 minutes I liked [Back to Black, Winehouse's 2006 album],” Brother Johannes Paul Chavanne explained. “But when I read the lyrics I thought it was sad. I would like to invite her here - I feel sympathetic to people like her. She could stay a week or two and discuss the big questions of life - faith might be an answer for her.”
The monks feel that with their proper guidance, Amy can be rehabilitated.
Are these the monks that don’t speak? Because they took Amy, that would be awesome.
So, Jared Leto’s steaming pile of shit he calls a band 30 Seconds To Mars got sued by Virgin for thirty million dollars, apparently over some contract problems. I thought I’d bring it up.
BLACK SHIT
I can’t remember the credit, but someone reported this. Probably not who I linked, but click on it anyway; good times.
Columbia Records has announced the October 20th release of AC/DC’s Black Ice, the band’s first studio album in eight years. Black Ice features 15 new tracks and was produced by Brendan O’Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver , BC .
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Train,” the album’s first single, will debut on August 28th. The video will premiere in September. And the band is set to kick off its first world tour since 2001 in late October.
Black Ice will be sold in the U.S. exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club retail locations at the special price of $11.88. Online, the CD will be available with free shipping and handling via the band’s website, where it is currently available for pre-order. It will also be sold at Walmart.com and Samsclub.com.
“Rock ‘N’ Train“?
FATTY FATTY U2 BY 4
From Music News:
Bono has reportedly been ordered to lose weight before U2 release their new album and start a proposed world tour next year. He’s has been told he needs to lose his excess pounds before the band start their promotional duties again.
A source said: ‘U2 have an album coming out around January. And then the band is going on another world tour in March and April - so the boys have been told to start exercising all the summer weight off.”
U2 are rumored to be calling the new record, their first in four years, No Line On The Horizon.
Four leaked songs are believed to be called ‘Moment of Surrender’, ‘For Your Love’, ‘Sexy Boots’ and ‘No Line On The Horizon’.
Is it wrong that I laughed at this? Of all the people, you’d think it would Britney Spears [or someone of that nature] that would get told to lose some weight. Caught me off guard I suppose.
Oh yes, happy birthday to the Compact Disc, which turns 26 this year!
WHOLE LOTTA L***
From Blabbermouth:
Led Zeppelin’s rock classic “Whole Lotta Love” has been deemed too racy by Olympics organizers. After choosing the song for the closing ceremony on Sunday, they decided that some of the lyrics would have to be omitted or re-written amid concerns that they could cause offense.
The song was chosen as the centrepiece of an eight-minute $5million British segment at the event in Beijing at which the Olympic flag will be officially passed to the London Mayor Boris Johnson. Organizers of the London 2012 Games commissioned the band’s guitarist Jimmy Page to record a new version of the song to be performed on top of a special red double-decker bus accompanied by Leona Lewis, winner of the ITV reality television show “The X Factor”, with David Beckham looking on.
Really? Led Zeppelin “too racy”? Who’s serving on the IOC that they think “Whole Lotta Love” is too racy? I didn’t know my grandma was in Beijing. The Olympics where 15 year old Chinese girls illegally competing, people laying down medals, rampant sex in the Olympic Village and Led Zeppelin is your concern? Bah!
I’m out. Take care and go outside sometime kiddies.