Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy.  The hits just keep on a-comin’.  *rimshot* 

Amy Winehouse had an exciting weekend.  Not only did she call singer Kanye West a nasty name for which her momma should wash her mouth out with soap for:

Towards the end of the set, the singer’s comments between songs became increasingly bizarre. Firstly she asked: “Are there any black people in the crowd? Where’s Don Letts?” before ‘Love Is A Losing Game’, then launched into a tirade about Jay-Z and Kanye West.

She said: “Let’s hear it for Jay-Z. The man has got bollocks to come here, and play the tunes you don’t even know you remember. Imagine if it was a c**t like Kanye West. ‘C**ts Like Kanye’ – that should be his next album title.”

But she also made an unwise decision to go into the crowd to sing her hit Rehab, and practically incited a riot:

The troubled 24-year-old singer, who has a long history of drug abuse, seemed to rain blows on the man as those surrounding him reeled back in astonishment.

Television cameras captured the incident, which happened after she had descended from the stage to sing her most famous hit, Rehab.

Crowd members claimed the singer lashed out in response to a derogatory comment about her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, after she spent much of the show making slurring references to ‘my Blakey’. […]

Her publicist said she had reacted instinctively when someone tried to pull her trademark beehive hairdo.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis’s version of events was that the man had made a grab at Miss Winehouse’s breasts.

However, the alleged man in question has a different version of what happened:

James Gostelow, 25, from London, came forward today claiming he was was the fan struck in the head by the singer.

Mr Gostelow claimed she turned on him after someone in the crowd behind him threw a hat at her.

He came forward to clear his name after some reports said she was groped.

Mr Gostelow told the BBC he was that reveller – but he did not think Winehouse was aiming at him. […]

Mr Gostelow said it was not too sore but ‘more shock than anything else having got up early to see her then being hit by her’.

He said: ‘The crowd was going absolutely crazy, everyone was pushing and shoving but that’s part of it.’

Asked if he would consider contacting the police, Mr Gostelow said: ‘No, I would never want to take anything so far, and at the end of the day it’s all part of being at the front to be honest with you, and being crushed by thousands of people here at Glastonbury.

‘It’s part of the experience I suppose.’

Okay. First, I’m not even a famous person, but I’ve been to enough things involving famous people to know that for someone on Amy’s level of fame to descend into a crowd of people is sheer madness, bordering on lunacy.  In short, a very stupid decision.  She was practically at the end of her set, she knew the crowd was in a frenzy, yet she chose to climb down amongst them.  What did she expect?

Oh wait, I forgot…I’m thinking with a non-drug-addled brain.  My bad.

And for her to call Kanye West anything is just silly.  Kanye is definitely not one of my favorite people.  He’s arrogant, smug, and full of himself.  But the word Amy used was highly derogatory and she was out of line.  I mean, she shouldn’t be up there insulting her fellow musicians…it will come back to haunt her.

But what was with the comment to start with?  She’s basically calling Jay-Z a has-been and making fun of Kanye because he wasn’t there, as well as giving off a decided unfavorable vibe towards black people.  It seems that Kanye isn’t the only person arrogant and full of themselves.  I think perhaps Amy has let her fame go to her head, and she isn’t quite the common girl from Camden Town that she wants us to believe she is, for all her willingness to brawl in the dirt.

Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, huh?  Maybe she just got tired of shooting up through her foot and decided to try something different.

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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is finally admitting the real reason why he went to rehab…after saying he needed a “safe environment” to recover from foot surgery, it turns out that wasn’t all he needed:

“To have your feet done, to have your leg done, you have to be on narcotics,” Tyler told The Associated Press on Friday. “You have to be on sleep aids at night. I don’t know about Joe (Perry) but I was off and running and I didn’t like the me that was me.”

Tyler released a statement in late May saying he checked into a rehab facility in search of a “safe environment” to recover from several foot surgeries and physical therapy. Tyler said the procedures were to correct longtime foot injuries resulting from his physical performances as the singer for the blues-rock band.

“This was a month ago, so I just put the brakes on and checked into detox and just pulled the plug on all of it,” he told the AP on Friday night at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, where he and bandmates were promoting “Guitar Hero 3: Aerosmith.”

Steven completed rehab in 1986, shortly before the band got their second wind which still continues today.

I don’t get it.  This is a very successful singer who enjoys fame all across the globe.  He knows that he has many fans, young and old, who look up to him and enjoy his music.  So why not just be honest and tell the truth from the get-go?  Not like some of us didn’t figure it out for ourselves…but that makes it worse, to be shown up in your half-truth after the fact.

It takes a lot of guts to go to rehab, and he should know that the eyes of his fans would be on him.  He could have not said anything, gone quietly away, and then come back and said, “Hey, I’m sorry I disappeared for a while, but I had a problem with painkillers I had to take care of, and I did…and if I can do it, so can you.”  He could have been an inspiration to others struggling with dependency.  Maybe he should start performing in flip-flops.

I can’t lay all the blame on Steven, though…he undoubtedly got horrible advice from his publicist.

Regardless, I wish him all the best in his continued recovery.

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OMG. You’re sayin there’s ANOTHER Hohan out there somewhere? Lindsay Lohan is reportedly very pissed at the news that a woman is claiming her father Michael fathered a luv child and has kept it from the family for 3 years.

Michael Lohan has admitted to romancing the child’s mother, Kristi Horn, during a period in 1995 when he and now ex-wife Dina Loan had separated, and has ordered his lawyers to get him outta this mess. Because, you know, there’s Lindsay’s money involved.

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It’s been reported that the private school being founded by Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett have ties to Scientology. The couple are said to be dissatisfied with education option for their kids, so they started the exclusive re-education camp New Village Academy.

The trouble is, the school will use instructional methods similar to those developed by former sci-fi pulp writer and scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard. And “a few” teachers just happen to be members of the cult.

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Spencer Pratt is out peddling his lil barely there career by calling out Mary-Kate Olsen who dissed him on the David Letterman Show while promoting her film ‘The Wackness’. Pratt hissed back by telling Us magazine: “I don’t really get why she’d use my name to get press for her little indie film that no one’s going to see.”

“She should probably focus more on not getting dressed in the dark than on me,” the Hills guy said. “I know I’ve made it in Hollywood when a famous troll is talking about me on Letterman.”

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Actor Ben Affleck is claiming that many of Hollywood’s big names are simply seeking publicity when doing charity work. The star – who has made three trips to Africa in the last eight months – returned from his own humanitarian mission in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo in May.

He says, “Here I am, this actor. There’s the potential for one of these cliche actors showing up out of the middle of nowhere in Africa. It’s really critical for me to learn and to understand and not to be some outsider who shows up and says, ‘I know what’s happening and I know what should be done.’

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On Saturday morning, yet another town in northeastern Missouri was inundated by the ever-advancing floodwaters from the Mississippi River.  The small town of Winfield, Missouri, was the latest casualty in the fight against the flood, with its makeshift sandbag levee failing in the early morning hours.

To date, countless small towns, hamlets, roads, and homes have been overtaken or somehow damaged by the Flood of ‘o8, with damages reported in the billions of dollars, while recovery estimates are calculated from months to years.  The states of Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana have all been hit in some way with floodwaters and residual effects of too much snow, too much rain, and not enough riverbed to hold it all.

So far, there are twenty-four people reported dead and 150 injured.  Tens of thousands of Midwestern folks have been displaced, living anywhere from the houses of friends and relatives to motels to Red Cross shelters to their own rooftops.  Millions of sandbags have been filled by town residents and volunteers from several states away to shore up existing levees and create new, temporary ones.  I can’t possibly link to all the sites with stories about the floodwaters and the people trying to survive.

However, there is a question I would like to ask:

Where are the celebrities?

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In an interview about his appearance in the new movie The Love Guru, Justin Timberlake says he has OCD and ADD.  Yeah, and?

Question: Do you have the OCD where you have to fix everything? (he’s adjusting all the recorders that got put down in front of him)

Justin Timberlake: I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that.

I do, Justin.  Why do you think I try to center my photos and have an equal ratio of left and right ones…or at least alternate them with no left-left right or right-right-left?  It’s always left-right-left, or right-left-right, but usually starting with the left.  If it’s just one, it’s always on the left.  I totally had to go into HTML on this post and clean up all the extemporaneous formatting that was making it wonky.

And why do you think my articles can get so long?  It’s because I start writing and not only do I feel like I’ve got to explain every thought in my head in excruciating detail, but I often get lost and forget what I’m writi

Wanna ride bikes?

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Wow, the slimy tentacle-like reach of Scientology managed to ensnare yet another creative type, bassist Justin Meldal Johnsen. Here’s his Scientology course records.

I was checking over at Enturbulation.org when I discovered this thread.

Now, as anyone who knows me well (all three of you) I am a HUGE NIN’s fan, and have been a fan since Pretty Hate Machine was released back in ‘89. Trent Reznor is one of my idols, and here’s a link to the bio Eric and I did on him for our Encyclopedia of Record Producers book. I am also keenly aware of the fact the Church of Scientology is run by sinister individuals who maintain a cult-like control over the organization and mistreat members and critics alike.

I am hereby swearing to the world at large, if Trent Reznor gets sucked into Scientology by this Justin fellow, who is probably a swell, but mislead, guy — the gloves will be off.

Trent is one of my heroes, and if it’s not bad enough I’ve had to write of Beck, Will Smith and even Tom Cruise due to their affiliations with Scientology, I just don’t know what I will do. By the way, not so coincidentally, Justin used to be in Beck’s band as well.

Here’s a strange fact for you. Trent Reznor was living in the Sharon Tate/Roman Polanski house while writing his fabulous album Downward Spiral. This is the same house Sharon Tate, her unborn child and her friends were murdered in by the Manson family. Charles Manson became a Scientologist while in prison. While he was rejected by the group for being “psychotic” he was deeply fascinated and influenced by their mind-control techniques, which he then applied to his “Manson Family” who as you know, became murderers under his control.

Weird, but true. STAY THE F AWAY FROM THE KOOL-AID TRENT.

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Fans are still guessing about the romance between Rihanna and Chris Brown. When asked it at the Bet Awards on Tuesday, Rihanna would only lie as usual say: “We aren’t dating; we’re very good friends.”

Nu-uh! Can’t give the “we’re just friends” line the day after Brown’s moms cooed about the Umbrella singer at a pre-awards event calling Rihanna “the sexiest and sweetest girl Chris has ever dated.”

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