++There was a great interview with Emergency author Neil
Strauss on the Carson Daly Dark and Intimate Chatshow the other night. Strauss talked about how
he will be releasing an anthology of the work he did for Rolling Stone magazine,
and the time he spent with Snoop Dogg many years ago. It was shortly after Snoop had left Death Row records. Strauss said that Snoop tried to
get Strauss to record some angry raps directed towards Sug Knight that Strauss
smartly declined to record and were never released. Strauss remembered
driving through South Central L.A.with Snoop and fearing for his life as the two of them tried to buy Pampers for
Snoop’s kid. I mean, he just said Pampers, I assume they were meant for Snoop's kid.
++One of my fave Twitterers Robert Hilburn notes that the Metacritic
reviewsfor Nirvana Live At Reading
have been more than good and that Eminem will be starring in a 3D Horror movie, (that is
not his actual real-life).
++Ooh, the Broad Stage will be showing Jane Austen, Unscripted next month. Sounds saucy.
++Apropos of nothing, I met not one but two people yesterday
who have had encounters with Ryan Seacrest and volunteered the information,
unasked. One said that Seacrest is a “sweetheart; real nice” and the other said
that he saw him stand on a box behind a podium while giving a speech. What are
the odds. Has everyone had a Ryan Seacrest encounter? Is Ryan Seacrest
omnipresent and lurking everywhere, like under freeway underpasses, just like
Dennis Haysbert?
++Melissa Etheridge recently played an exclusive show at the
Hard Rock Café in New York in support of breast cancer, as Etheridge herself once
battled the disease. She played her classic Come To My Window, one of her many
breaking and entering/violating property rights themed songs.
