A MOMENT OF SILENCE…


This is crazy… Matthew Jay died last night.

THE RETURN OF TRAVIS

We were listening to Radio 1 the other day when a song caught our… ear. We thought maybe it was from the new Starsailor album, and we said, “Woah, is James exploring his dark side?” But with minimal searching we found out we were really listening to the new Travis single, “Re-Offender“! We know it’s tragically un-hip to love Travis, but we do! We can’t help it! Another new track off the album, “Beautiful Occupation” sounds like Interpol meets The Strokes meets Beatles Sergent Pepper’s-era. Yay Travis!

Girls rule European jean culture.

Cutest caption of the day: “Please excuse Peter from class today. He was sick with The Fever.”

Madonna does book signing. No one seems to have read the book.

JUST A RANDOM THOUGHT…

Eddie Izzard has this bit in one of his shows where he discusses the fine line between being “cool, hip, and groovy” and “looking like a complete d*ckhead.” According to Izzard, “cool, hip, and groovy” is right up against “looking like a complete d*ckhead” and once you go over that line into the “d*ckhead” territory, it’s really hard to go back. So the random thought of the day is: “Vice: Cool, hip, and groovy, or looking like a complete d*ckhead?”

OH NO YOU DIDN’T!

Read the most painful… er… self-gratification stories ever. Ouch.

AHH, YOU SMELL THAT? IT’S THE PUBLIC AIRING OUT OF PRETENTION!

Blogging is not the new journalism. It’s the new zine. They will disappear when some of the more high-profile bloggers—those who came up from nothing with a will to write, not those high-vis journos who slummed in the freeform—find jobs in the mainstream press, where they clearly thirst to be. Their sites will atrophy, and the left-behinders will become bitter, scream “sellout” and lose interest.



The blog is a dead form within two years. On the outside.

New York Press takes some swings at other vomit-inspiring phenoms like David Amsden, JT Leroy, and more… like this item on the “new” GQ:

Ridiculously, Nelson let Guy write a feature-length piece about how controlling and disloyal Zinner was. More ridiculously, Guy offered up teenage gossipy bullshit about how Zinner used to fuck Karen O., as if the idea of a hot guy and a hot girl in a band hooking up would be shocking to anybody but a person like Guy, who probably never gets laid.


No doubt, Nelson and Guy thought this piece would be fodder for Page Six, but not even the gossipy NY rock weblogs cared. Do a Google search for “Mike Guy and Yeah Yeahs Yeahs” or “GQ and Yeah Yeah Yeahs” and see if you find any proof that this article ever existed.


Maybe soon, Nelson will discover that the Strokes made out with one of the band members. He can write about bisexuality among the 40-year-old set. All we know now is that Diego from Elefant better expect GQ’s call soon; we can only imagine how he’s making Nelson cream his khakis.

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Jack White’s got a new message:

09/25/03


Males are such despicable creatures.


Jack White

III

HI, YOU MAY REMEMBER US AS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD — WELL, WE’RE BACK! AND OUR NEW ALBUM IS GREAT!

Movies we watched this weekend: Jerry Maguire, Something About Mary, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Jackass: The Movie

TV we watched this weekend: Season premiere of “Alias,” Gravity Games (BMX), “Miss Match,” “Boomtown”

Music we listened to this weekend: Room on Fire, The Strokes; In Utero, Nirvana

PARIS HILTON TELLS SISTER NICKY TO KEEP HER LEGS SHUT

Too bad she didn’t follow her own advice when she went comando last month… Says Paris in Seventeen magazine: “I tell Nicky, with guys, they’re only gonna want what they can’t have… Nobody wants the beaten-up Prada purse on Canal Street. Everyone wants the brand-new colorful Louis Vuitton one that no one can get. Guys don’t want the girl who’s been around the block.” That’s right — they want the girl who owns the block.

AFFLECK’S SHAMPOO ADS, NOT CAREER, DECLARED “DEEPLY EMBARRASSING.”

Ben Affleck’s British L’Oreal ads banned in US.

BLACK(OUT) IS STILL IN STYLE FOR FALL!

Italy struck by wide-scale blackout, leaving 57 million people without power. On the bright side, brilliant quotes taken from the AP news wire release:

“Italy blamed France; France denied responsibility.”


“All the ice creams are melting. It’s a disaster.”


“Fabrizio Volpi, a 21-year-old student, was briefly stuck in a nightclub when the lights went out. ‘There was panic, especially from the women,’ he said.”

FOREVER YOUNG

Van Toffler, President of MTV and MTV2.