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This is going to be a boring post, but what can i say, I’m boring.  I need a place to rant, and have no other outlet.

I have been subjected to CMW (Canadian Music Week), and I have to say that after this ‘experience’ I will never be the same again.  I have to reconsider my career and this so called industry altogether.  If I could relate this ‘experience’ I have had before i would have to say that it ranks close to the worst trip i have ever taken, included in this comparision would be the worst drunk and assinine ass i have ever made out of myself and along with the multiple consequences of these tirade of ‘experiences’ of brought on. 

I think my industry sucks.  To be polite and pg.  (Since Sarah’s mom reads this occasionally).  I hate all the suits, I hate all the radicals, i hate everyone right now, including the artists. 

What is this nonsense ‘they’ (the record labels) call ‘publishing’.  Exactly how does this relate to todays market? Seriously?!  All i have heard is ‘boo-fucking-hoo, poor me,  i’ve been living off the backs of many artists and now people are publisheing and replicating my ‘rights’ without my consent and i am not getting paid’.  Like fuck-fucking off!  Loser!  I actually met people today that own publishing rights for 100,000 lyrics.  So everytime you want to find even the lyrics online losers are crying about the fact they are there available!  Seriously! WTF!!!!! They aren’t getting paid for posting the lyrics they didn’t even write. Please someone explain this to me?!  Did you know that for 40 fucking years the record industry was fighting the radio?! 40 years!!!! What is wrong with these suits getting their head around the fact that their landscape changes? Like - if i were to leave a $100 bill in the middle of the road, because I thought it belonged there, and someone took, would a resonable person replace it? And put another $100 bill iin the same place? And do so repeatedly?  That would be moronic. No?  Why in the right mind would companies continue to support this bad habit? Be a pusher of this habit? Support this habit?  I say ‘god you are a fuck wad, and i shead no tears over you no longer having a chaffeur and a fat bank account?!  What exactly have you done?’ All I have heard all week is this crying.  And i want to slap them.  They have different options presented to them, and they say ‘no, this isn’t how it is done’. Well, duh! I am not getting the cut i used to! Well, no shit! You should never have been getting this ‘cut’.  Why do these companies continue to supply these ’supposed theifs’ cds.  CDs are the source of the mass replication of their ‘rights’ (within legal terms that are archaic). Why would you continue to supply the theifs? Why? Why not shift to a new model?  Oh yeah - their answer to everything - that isn’t how it’s been done.  My cheque isn’t as big so i will not agree to it.

I am not against music, or artists, or respecting artists, or respecting the fact that artist want to get paid for what they do best.  Who doesn’t? Who isn’t? But labels have been signing and supporting and crying over artists that aren’t worthy of even paying $0.99 for the one hit wonders they mass produce now! Even U2 has slide to medicore at best.  We have no Beatles or Zepplin on the roster, not even close, not even in the distant future.  Why would anyone want to pay for the shit that these majors are signing and promoting?!

I don’t know where i am going with this rant other than - 1. the content sucks and isn’t worthy of consumer dollars. 2. the label wholesale (i.e. whore there legal property) out to retailers in the form of cds.  3. cry about the fact that only 1 person needs to buy a cd to supply to the entire world. 3. cry, piss, and moan about the fact they aren’t making the money they used to (when really they are enables - and what are enablers? yes, right, helpers that help to destroy themselves). 4. these suits work off arcachic notions of ‘copyright’ (take aids and the pharamsuticals that won’t mass produce cheap drugs to those dying in africa because they don’t have to and would hurt their profits argument - not that i am equating the power of music to drugs that save lives but…I hope you see what i am getting at). 5. too many useless hands are in the pot and need to get the fuck out. (i.e. publishers and ’owners’ of lyrics that they didn’t even write!) 6. they are suits (they should say enough). 7. that i hate them!!!!! ALL!!!!! 8. because i want to keep ranting. 9. because after this week, after this shit, i want to download as much music as i can for free to fuck these assholes over.  Because now I truely understand why everyone says ‘fuck drms’, ‘fuck the labels’ and ‘fuck ___ (you fill in the blank)’.  That maybe if you put all these ’suits’ out of business, maybe then finally the artists - which everyone respects and loves and consumers want to consume - will finally figure it out for themselves insead of losers in suits pissing and moaing away and holding the entire process back.  Because i still believe in the artists and the creative mind that a solution is possible, but you have to get over yourself, what the paycheque used to be, your ego must fit in the door, and must have the actual consumer and fan in mind to reach an agreeable conclusion.

I get that artists want to be ‘discovered’ by a label and supported and paid to sit in a reording studio to produce an album.  Paid to make a video, have marketing dollars behind them for posters, flyering, tv, and radio spots.  I get that.  I get that artists want this.  Who doesn’t? But with where we sit today with technology, artists no longer need a studio - they have a laptop and some mics and an amp, the instruments and proper software - they can make any recording sound professional and studio quality.  Same with video.  How many wannabe directors and ‘film students’ do I know alone? let alone the readers of this blog? Look at Kevin Smith!?  Now advertising dollars are diffenent - but here are companies out there willing to invest and wrap mp3 in their advertising and pay the artist. They get demographic info and the artist makes money.  You no longer need a distributor to put a physical cd in stores, because the kids who know where its at aren’t in the fucking in stores. Why are companies with an item to sel making it so difficult for the consumer to consume?  When they can get it for free?  There is a gucci purse in a store i want, but on ebay it is half the price, or sitting beside ebay is a free one? which would a logical person chose?  Yup. Me too.  Unless of course i belived in gucci, but i don’t - especially since they got rid of tom ford. 

thank-you for listening. You may discuss amongst yourselves, i was drunk posting this, but hey - wouldn’t you drink if your work consisted of listening these morons cry?

anna nicole smith had a secret son???

i don’t know if this story is true or not but jesus, that whole situation is very fucked up.  here’s a clip from and a link to the article:

Smith’s eldest child, Daniel, overdosed last fall at age 20 from a lethal mixture of antidepressant meds and methadone. Hypothetically, this would leave his sister, born just days before Daniel OD’d, sole heir to the Smith-Marshall millions. But now Johnny Soto and his son are poised to throw yet another monkey wrench into the surreal soap opera of Anna Nicole Smith’s life and post mortem. According to Soto, his son is the result of a torrid love affair between himself and the 42DD femme fatale in early 2001, while Smith was vacationing at Paradise Valley’s Sanctuary Resort and Spa. He has the birth certificate and other documents to prove it. If they hold up in court, and he’s able to establish little Marshall’s lineage through DNA, Soto, his son, and the entire Tohono O’odham tribe stand to cash in big time.

if you’re interested, you can read the rest here.

Holy Crap it’s Friday!

Celebrate and inspire your weekend activites by seeing how drunk your celebrity friends can get here. Yes, the Befuddle site is dedicated only to drunken celebs. Call it their specialty. I hope you don’t mind the porn at the side of the screen, but everyone needs sponsors right? Anyway, here’s a sample (not of the porn, the drunken celebs you perverts):

Harvey should be so proud. Hey look girls! It is your favorite, Avril! Blohan is the one in the last pic in the grey.

Lohan gives her a run for her money, but I think Britney still wins the category of worst drunken photo. What a hot (or not so hot) mess.

My Chemical Romance

I’ve found a new band to worship after listening to their album a million times and still not getting enough of it. Didn’t like them at first, but their new music is so damn good. Gerard Way is also coming into his own as a performer and I love watching him get better. He loves Freddie Mercury as much as I do too so that kind of sealed the deal, plus he’s pretty.

“It takes a while to tell stories, I think it’s because I was drunk for three years.”

“It’s like the drag fairy coming and saying ‘What
would you like to do?’ Um, yeah karate.”

“It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?”

“Well, I’m half Italian, so last year on warped tour i got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.”

“I’m not psycho…I just like psychotic things.”

“Actually, I might party a bit. I haven’t partied in a long time, but we party a little differently than, like, Trick Daddy . We like high-speed Internet and strong coffee.”

“Welcome to the new church. Can I get an Amen?”

take that andrea!

At No. 5, Avril Lavigne has the chart’s top debut with “Girlfriend,” also her best career debut on the Hot 100. The cut sold 122,000 downloads, an impressive tally considering it is just now starting to garner radio play.

(source: oh no the didn’t)

Blake Lewis, the next American Idol?

He’s got good things going for him, plus his dad is the cutest thing I have ever seen.  Bit too much of a pretty boy for my liking but he picks the best songs I have ever seen on that show.  If only other contestants from Americal Idol would stop singing lite FM classics like Stevie Wonder (love him, but give it a rest) and Celine Dion (gag me).  If you missed it, here is his most recent performance:

Yes, the breathy “ah”s in the beginning kind of make me cringe, but I think it makes Simon wants to get crazy with the Cheez Whiz.  Aw yeah.

viva la lohan!

rehab does a girl good.  or in this case, doesn’t, i guess:

The “Mean Girls” star has cut back on her partying since leaving rehab last month, but an insider on the set of her new flick says Lohan is still displaying some of the unpredictability that upset her co-workers on the recently completed “Georgia Rule.”

Lohan kept crew members waiting for hours on the set of “I Know Who Killed Me” on Feb. 21, a source told In Touch Weekly.

“When she finally arrived, she said that she needed to take a nap,” the source told the mag.

But Lohan didn’t emerge from her trailer for five hours, and then threw up and immediately went home, says the insider, leaving those left behind to speculate as to what ailed her.

(source: oh no they didn’t)

is there going to be a sequel to the craft?

cause if there is then whichever olsen this is should totally get the lead.  she totally looks like a witch.  i bet she can freeze you just by looking in your eyes.  jesus, she’s scary.

photos of britney in rehab

seriously britney, why the wig?  you’re not fooling anyone.

tom cruise scares me

tom  cruise scares me for many, many reasons.  this is just the newest one:

TOM Cruise can’t stand to be away from Katie Holmes even for a week.  Holmes is due to start shooting “Mad Money” - a comedy about three women who plan to steal millions from the Federal Reserve and also starring Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah - in Shreveport, La., in the next month or so. One insider said, “Tom has called producers and told them he will be on set every day.

“He wants to observe what’s going on and will probably help Katie out.” The couple will likely bring their infant daughter, Suri, along as well.

Jim Acheson, one of the movie’s producers, told Page Six, “I don’t know if that’s the case, so I can’t confirm. We are happy to have both Katie and Tom on set.” A rep for Cruise and Holmes wasn’t available for comment.

The insider added, “Katie’s agent, Hylda Queally [at CAA], chose this role for her because it is a female buddy movie. There is no love interest and she wouldn’t be kissing anyone or have a sex scene.”

Acheson declined comment on the script - which our source, who has seen it, said was “atrocious.”

Holmes gave up her role in the upcoming “Batman” sequel, and some in Hollywood said it was because of the romantic scenes she would have had with Christian Bale.

Cruise was said to be upset over her sex scene in last year’s “Thank You for Smoking” - which was mysteriously missing during several festival screenings.

Meanwhile, reports have surfaced on the Internet that Cruise and Holmes will move into a compound in Beverly Hills. They had been renting a home but were informed last year that the owner intended to sell it.

The new compound has several buildings and enough room to house Cruise, Holmes, Suri, Cruise’s adopted children with Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella, plus his mother and one of his sisters. Cruise’s sister home-schools the kids, and the compound has room for a classroom.

sorry about all the random bolding, that’s the fault of oh no they didn’t