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October 10, 2006, 11:20 AM ET

I was just wondering if what the little kids are saying is true about Fall Fest..
RUMOR has it that you guys stormed off stage because of "technical difficulties" and instead of trying to fix it you guys just left?? It has also been said that someone threw a guitar at the wall...


Now I myself believe that this was blown way out of proportion..
but rather then keep reading the RUMORS...
I thought I would go straight to the source...and get it from who would know best..yall got it right fo sho....TOO MUCH GARBAGE!!!!!

thanks, yo
<3 Manda


I will try and attempt to explain what happened at FallFest, even though a lot of these kids that know it all have jumped to their own conclusions. (If your not in a band that has played a radio festival before you probably have zero credibility to be talking like you know what happened or how we should have acted)
There are two sets of crews for radio shows. The local crew that sets up the stage, patches mic cables, brings in the P.A. and makes sure the show runs smoothly, and our crew which is our sound guy, guitar techs, drum tech and others. Basically, we were playing early in the day for some reason unknown to me after two bands that had probably 1/10th the gear and equipment Avenged Sevenfold has to put on a show.
The local crew couldn't get anything right. Everything was patched wrong so if you turned up Zackys guitar, my mic would feed back. If Syn wanted his mic up, The Revs kick drum would go up in every ones in-ears. This went on for 45 min (we were 15 min. late to hit the stage) as they tried to fix the problem with our crew trying to help them the whole time. Since it's a radio show they told us we had to go on stage. So we went out only to find that not only were the in-ears mis patched but the whole front of house was as well. How can you take 32 tracks and mix them when you have no clue what track is what? You can't. I was furious about the fact that we couldn't hear a Goddamn thing in the in-ears, but when I took them out, I heard that front of house was even worse off then us. We played for about 45 seconds through nothing but feedback and no tonality whatsoever. It was embarrassing, and it was embarrassing for Avenged fans having to hear that shit. So I flipped out and was not going to stand there through that for 40 min. There was no fixing the problem unless everything was re patched, which is about a 35 min job.
Again, its a radio show, they would not let us re patch for 35 min. and then start again. So we left. The reason that all the other bands sounded fine was because after we played they obviously had to go fix the problem. Even though Stone Sour and Breaking Benjamin still had patching problems, it wasn't every channel.
And to the kids that keep saying we are trying to be like GnR... get over yourselves, quit trying to take a band that influences us and comparing everything we do with them. If we told you the Sex Pistols were an influences half of you would say Johnny Christ is trying to be like Sid vicious and we stormed off stage because we want to have and attitude like Johnny Rotten. Try not to be a guinea pig and think for yourself. The fact of the matter is everyone has bad days, and this was a bad day for Avenged Sevenfold. We are sorry to the kids that didn't get to see us play, but I don't regret our actions. I was not going to put us, or our fans through 40 min. of the worst Avenged show in the history of shows. We did not go out and explain ourselves or apologize that day because the venue wanted us escorted off the property right after the show. So that's basically what happened in a nutshell, and as I'm writing this I'm still upset about Saturday. But whatever, time to write a new record and put this behind us.

P.S. To people talking about sound problems on Ozzfest. I think we found a solution. I always knew it sounded great if you listened from the sound board. Ted is an amazing sound guy and has been the subject of some of the biggest mixing magazines. That and we also have him tape every show on video from his position and it sounds great. One night he was mixing The Confession for me and I was listening from and angle. Not straight on but to the left a little and all I could hear was drums and bass, kinda like some of the complaints we've gotten. So I talked to him about it yesterday and I found out he's been mixing in Stereo. Which means Zackys guitar is in one speaker on his side of the stage and Syns is in the other. It's basically how the CD is mixed and it sounds great if you are standing in the middle of the arena. But if you are on the side, you are getting full power from all the other instruments, but only 1 guitar, which means the guitar is getting buried. So from now on I asked him to mix the bigger venues in MONO so that people off to the side get both guitars and not one or the other. Should fix the problem.


from avengedsevenfold.com/forums

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

"I have had it with these motherf*ckin' snakes on this motherf*ckin' plane!" may be the most memorable movie quote of the summer.

In fact, "Snakes on a Plane" has already reached cult status, and it hasn't even been released yet. And the band Cobra Starship is adding to the hype with the theme song, "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)," which last week debuted at No. 38 on the Alternative/Modern Rock chart.

The band is the brainchild of former Midtown singer Gabe Saporta, and the single features William Beckett of the Academy Is..., Maja Ivarsson of the Sounds and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes.

Saporta tells Billboard.com that "this recording is -- I hate the term 'solo project,' which is why I came up with the name Cobra Starship -- but this is definitely a representation of my influences and the kind of songs that I wanted to make. I have a band that I'm going to be playing with live, though."

Cobra Starship's full-length Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen album, "While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets," is scheduled for release Oct. 10.

The band came together under unusual circumstances. "Last year, I did a spoof of [Gwen Stefani's] 'Hollaback Girl,' and I was already using that name [Cobra Starship]. Then the 'Snakes on the Plane' movie came around, and it was like, 'Wow, this is fate,'" Saporta says. "The weirder thing is I had the song already -- including lyrics like 'Cheap champagne / we're going down in flames' -- before I even knew about the movie. So I just changed the vibe of the song and used 'Snakes on a Plane' as a metaphor for what the song was already about. It was meant to be."

The infectious track may surprise some Midtown fans, though, because it leans heavily towards pop. "When I first started, I was very elitist about who I wanted to listen to my music. But then I realized that's bullsh*t. I just want to make music for everybody," he says. "The attitude of Cobra Starship is to have fun. I'm not concerned with punk rock credibility. Right now I just want to have fun and make party music, but the album will also have real songs that aren't campy."

That said, Saporta promises one song on the album features 1980s freestyle group the Cover Girls. "It almost sounds like Miami Sound Machine," he says. "Their voices -- they are all Spanish girls from the Bronx -- just add exactly the right dynamic."

But despite that fun-loving spirit, Saporta isn't just riding the coattails of a possible summer blockbuster with Cobra Starship. There's definitely more to come, and soon. The band is hitting the road next month, and Saporta expects to "put out another record in like nine months."

After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand
and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts and
presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a woman
not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn
that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye you learn.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

Hawthorne Heights has filed a lawsuit against its record label, Victory Records, and label head Tony Brummel today (Aug. 7). The band claims that Brummel's "overly-aggressive, unethical and illegal schemes and tactics," including physically threatening music industry figures and scheming against other artists, have severely damaged the band's reputation and its relationship with fans.

In February, Hawthorne Heights and Ne-Yo were vying for the top of The Billboard 200. On Feb. 28, an email from someone at Victory appeared to urge its street promotions team to tamper with Ne-Yo's sales potential. "If you were to pick up [a] handful of Ne-Yo CDs, as if you were about to buy them, but then changed your mind and didn't bother to put them back in the same place," the message read, "That would work ... just relocating a handful creates issues."

Within hours of the email's appearance on an industry message board on March 1, a second email appeared calling the first message "a joke." The Hawthorne Heights record, "If Only You Were Lonely," wound up debuting at No. 3 on sales of 114,000 units in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, while Ne-Yo's "In My Own Words" bowed at No. 1 on sales of 301,000 units.

Band members Eron Bucciarelli-Tieger, Casey Calvert, Micah Carli, Matt Ridenour and JT Woodruff claim that Brummel then signed the band's name without their knowledge or approval to a so-called manifesto, which falsely stated that the band believed it was in some type of war with artists in the hip-hop and R&B music genres, leading many to brand the band as racist.

In the suit, the band also charges Victory and Brummel with "egregiously fraudulent accounting practices." Despite sales of nearly 1.5 million units of the band's recordings and videos, Victory and Brummel claim that the band owes the label in excess of $1 million, the suit says, even though Victory has received in excess of $10 million in revenues from their sale of Hawthorne Heights' CDs, DVDs and merchandise.

he suit, filed in the federal District Court in Chicago, follows the band's posting of its own "manifesto" on its Web site, in which it describes the way it claims Brummel has treated them.

Hawthorne Heights wants the court to stop Victory from distributing its recordings, to order that the recording agreement be rescinded and to order the company and Brummel to pay unspecified monetary damages.

The complaint alleges a slew of claims, including copyright and trademark infringement, invasion of privacy for placing the band in a "false light," fraud and interference with business relations.

In a statement, Victory Records said, "The lawsuit filed by Hawthorne Heights has no merit whatsoever. Victory Records fully expects Hawthorne Heights to honor their commitment to deliver two additional studio albums to Victory pursuant to their recording artist agreement with Victory."

------------------------and the letter from the band--------------------------------------

Due to recent events we have decided to leave Victory Records. Our departure is anything but amicable. We have decided to leave Victory, in part due to the actions of the man who sits at the head of the label, Tony Brummel. Tony Brummel is a man that cares more about his ego and bank account than the bands themselves.


Many of you are familiar with the greed driven letters sent out by Mr. Brummel: his manifesto calling rock supporters to arms and virtual declaration of war on hip-hop and Ne-Yo done under the guise of a band message; as well as the street-team letter which instructed people to re-arrange our CDs, putting them in higher visibility areas in stores. Unfortunately, the head of street-team, Abby Valentine, who understandably resigned following the incident, took the fall for this. At the time of the letters we were branded as racists by some, all over a letter we did NOT write, targeting a genre which we have NOTHING against whatsoever. Because of these letters, our second album debuted at ..3 on the charts, an incredible feat, which would normally be cause for joy, but now is tainted much like Barry Bonds statistics.

When questioned about the letters Tony was more upset that we had told the press that he actually wrote the letters (not us) because he was more worried about rumors surrounding Taking Back Sunday and Thursdays exoduses being justified than the credibility and reputation of his current biggest band.

Couple these letters with him threatening the head program director at Q101 in Chicago for putting the new Taking Back Sunday song into rotation to the point in which the program director pulls Saying Sorry from rotation and you can see why we would more than question whether or not the head of our label cares about us or his own ego more.

Tony is a man whose greed knows no bounds. After selling more than 1.2 million copies of The Silence In Black and White and If Only You Were Lonely, we have never seen a single dollar in artist royalties from Victory Records. Tony will claim that we have not recouped, a term used by those in the music business which means the label has spent more money in advertising than has been made by CD sales. In fact questionable accounting practices are the culprit and we are in fact owed substantial amounts of money much like audits from Taking Back Sunday, Thursday and Atreyu have uncovered.

You may be wondering, why now? Why did they wait three years before saying something? Why did they sound happy in that interview??? Like being in an abusive relationship, we let certain things slide as we were afraid, as many of the bands on Victory are, to stick our neck out for fear of being beaten, in this case represented by the threat of not being promoted as has been the case with certain bands on the roster. Were done being abused. The reasons stated above represent the final straw in a huge pile of hay that broke our backs.

Undoubtedly Tony will proclaim that we are ungrateful and our success was due solely to his promotional efforts. In reality, promotion is only a portion of the equation in a bands success. Even then, in our case especially, promotional efforts can be attributed to the hard work of the band and staff at Victory, many of whom recently resigned or were fired due to differences with Tony. Non-stop touring, dedicated fans and songs (we challenge Tony to sell over 1 million blank CDs) account for the rest of the equation.

Weve accomplished more in three years than most bands do in a lifetime and for that we are extremely grateful and consider ourselves very fortunate. Our situation with Tony Brummel is indicative of issues that all bands on Victory Records encounter on some level or another.

We have decided to remove ourselves from the negative situation so that we can continue to do what we love best and focus on writing and playing music to people that care about what we have created.

Hawthorne Heights

--------------------------

I'm not a fan, but GO HH!

From gigwise.com, if any of you were wondering why they had to cancel the show in San Diego this past weekend....

My Chemical Romance were forced to cancel their appearance at this weekend’s Street Scene festival after being involved in a car crash.

According to AOL music the band travelled to San Diego to play the show but pulled out at the last minute because their injuries were too painful.

The crash apparently took place last Thursday and drummer Bob Bryar is said to be the most seriously injured having possibly received third degree burns.

Front man Gerard Way also suffered a broken ankle in the crash.

It is not known as of yet if the injuries will affect MCR's future gig commitments

AND FROM ROLLING STONE:

As reported on RollingStone.com's Rock Daily blog yesterday, MY
CHEMICAL ROMANCE apparently cancelled their appearance at the San
Diego Street Scene Festival this past weekend due to a video shoot
gone haywire. Another band that performed at Street Scene told us that
drummer BOB BRYAR suffered burns from wayward pyrotechnics and singer
GERARD WAY broke his ankle. A spokesman for the band confirmed the
injuries but insisted, "I don't think it's as serious as people have
been saying." 


who knows... someone ask G

Rock act My Chemical Romance is finishing up work on its next, as-yet-untitled album, due Oct. 24 via Reprise. The set is being recorded at Eldorado Studio in Los Angeles with veteran producer Rob Cavallo. Tracks were conceptualized in a portable studio on the band's tour bus over the past year.

"We all have records that shaped our childhood and teen years," says bassist Mikey Way. "When you hear a song, it shoots you back to a moment in time. We want this album to do that for people. We want the entire world to be moved."

The upcoming album is the follow-up to My Chemical Romance's 2004 breakthrough, "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge," which has sold more than 1.4 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The group is expected to roadtest some new material at a handful of shows in the coming weeks, beginning Saturday (Aug. 5) at San Diego's Street Scene festival.  My Chemical Romance will also play Japan's Summer Sonic festival, the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds festivals and two dates in Pennsylvania and New York in early September with Taking Back Sunday.


And another little tidbit....

My Chemical Romance has recently been working on their third album, which was thought to be titled The Rise and Fall of My Chemical Romance but in a recent interview with Kerrang! magazine Gerard Way denied this was the title of the next album, stating "It was never the title of the album, more a spoof, or joke." The album, whose title has yet to be announced, is scheduled for release on October 24th, 2006. The band started recording the album on April 10, 2006 with Rob Cavallo, who has produced every Green Day album since Dookie except Warning:.

The new single for the upcoming CD has been said to be called "The Black Parade" and is to be directed by Sam Bayer, the same director who did Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit" and all of Green Day's American Idiot videos.

I guess the Stonehedge scene was based on a true event:

DRUIDIC DISASTER

I don't hate Lindsay at all, but I'm so happy that she is getting called on her bullshit.  Here it is:

Lindsay Lohan's hard-partying antics and recent bout of "heat exhaustion" has left one Hollywood big shot steamed, The Smoking Gun has learned. In a blistering July 26 letter to the 20-year-old actress, James G. Robinson, who heads the L.A. firm producing Lohan's current movie, calls her recent erratic behavior "discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional." Robinson, the 70-year-old chief executive of Morgan Creek Productions, writes that Lohan has "acted like a spoiled child and in doing so have alienated many of your co-workers and endangered the quality" of "Georgia Rule," a movie now being filmed and which stars Lohan, Jane Fonda, and Felicity Huffman. 

A copy of Robinson's letter--which was delivered to Lohan at the Chateau Marmont hotel--can be found below. A Morgan Creek official confirmed to TSG that the missive was sent to Lohan and her various representatives earlier this week. Robinson notes that while Lohan's aides have chalked up her lateness and absences to illness, he is "well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so called 'exhaustion.'" Noting that Morgan Creek refuses to "accept bogus excuses for your behavior," Robinson warns Lohan that she will be held "personally accountable" for losses caused by her actions. Claiming that Lohan's behavior has already "resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage," Robinson hints at possible legal action against the actress unless she begins honoring her production commitments. He concludes, "I urge you to take this letter seriously and conduct yourself professionally."



I have no words...

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Gets Graphic, Pens Comic Book Series



Perhaps we should just hold a tournament to determine the geekiest rock band in the world.

One day after Fall Out Boy announced a line of vinyl action figures made in their likenesses, My Chemical Romance frontman, artist and longtime comic aficionado Gerard Way took steps to reclaim his uncool crown, announcing plans to pen his very own comic book series.

"The Umbrella Academy," a six-issue series from Dark Horse Comics, tells the story of Sir Reginald Hargreeves — a "world-renowned scientist and inventor, intrepid adventurer, successful entrepreneur, champion cricketer and closet space alien," according to a statement from Dark Horse — and his family of superpowered, super-abnormal superheroes.

" 'Umbrella Academy' is the story of seven extraordinary, maladjusted individuals, their triumphs, tragedies, failures and disappointments," the statement reads in part. "Most importantly, it's about a family of superhumans who need to learn to get past their spectacularly dysfunctional childhoods to defeat the Conductor and his evil Black Orchestra and do what they were born to: save the world."

Hey, just like the Way clan! (Mikey's superpower would probably be Lasik-related.) According to Dark Horse, there is no firm release date for "Umbrella Academy" at the moment, though there's a strong possibility the first issue won't surface until mid-2007.

But whenever it does hit shelves, the initial six-issue series — written entirely by Way — will serve as a launching point for an ongoing "Umbrella" miniseries (sort of like what the company does with its "Hellboy" title). The first series features interior artwork from Gabriel Bá and covers by Eisner Award-winning artist James Jean.

In addition to writing comic books, Way and the rest of MCR are continuing work on the follow-up to their breakthrough Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, recording in California with Green Day producer Rob Cavallo (see "My Chemical Romance Enlist Green Day Producer For 'Dark,' 'Wicked' New LP").

— James Montgomery

Every time I have a conversation about movies with someone, I'm reminded of the fact that I  haven't seen many of the movies that "you are supposed to see".  So, I'm taking the list of Film4’s 50 Films to See Before You Die and highlighting which ones I've seen... just so I know what I HAVE to do before I die I guess...

Film4’s 50 Films to See Before You Die:

As well as having a compelling story to tell, every film in this eclectic mix demonstrates a unique and creative approach to filmmaking. Whether it’s a strength in storytelling, a unique visual style or an ability to simply shock, entertain or enthral an audience, each film has been chosen as a paragon of a particular genre or style.

1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz n the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands

 

Ok, so 7 out of 50.  Is that bad?  Is it worse that I've never even heard of some of these movies?  Actually, who is Film4 and who are they to say that 50 movies I should see before I die?  Hmmmm?  I will make the prediction that I will probably see 10 more of those, at most!

And I found the coolest thing on tmz.com, after every episode they do an "Entourage Decoded"!  Its so cool.  Here's the one from this past episode:

Entourage Decoder

Posted Jul 17th 2006 12:57PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV, Entourage

Last night's episode of "Entourage" was undoubtedly the hottest yet -- and not just because of Eric's unlikely threesome with the smoldering Sloane and the tantalizing Tori. Ari's rage -- which has been pretty well contained all season -- finally exploded in some of the most vintage Gold tantrums yet, and it seems that Johnny's career might just start catching fire (thanks to Lloyd) as Vince's is in danger of flaming out.

Nevertheless, there were, as ever, plenty of blink-and-you'll-miss tidbits that made us go "hmmm," like Drama's potential pilot, Vinny's replacement as Aquaman, and that sexy dinner spot that was the prelude to E's ecstasy.

ART: Lloyd (you go, Lloyd!) gets Drama an audition for the role of "the older brother" in a TV pilot "by Ed Burns" about "four Irish boys." Maybe it's just us, but that description sounds oddly familiar. Why?

LIFE: Maybe it's because Irish brothers are as common in actor-writer-director Edward Burns' oeuvre as Italian mobsters are in Martin Scorsese's or unexplained supernatural phenomena are in M. Night Shyamalan's. Consider: Burns' first film, "The Brothers MacMullen," was about three Irish brothers; his next film, "She's The One," centered around two Irish brothers; his latest effort, "The Groomsmen," also centered around two brothers from an Irish 'hood. Oh, and the one TV pilot he produced? "The Fighting Fitzgeralds," about, yes, three Irish brothers and their recently widowed (Irish) dad.

ART: E realizes just how, shall we say, screwed they are when Ari tells him that Jake Gyllenhaal has been signed on to replace Vince as Aquaman. Has the star of a superhero movie franchise ever been replaced mid-production?

LIFE: Well, this is just exactly why we love "Entourage": In fact, before the release of "Spider-Man 2," it was revealed that Tobey Maguire had such severe back problems that director Sam Raimi was worried that Maguire might suffer paralysis from doing some of the stunts, and as a result the studio had Gyllenhaal prepared to take the role of Peter Parker. The situation was made even more awkward by the fact that Gyllenhaal was dating "Spidey" co-star Kirsten Dunst at the time. So could Ari's epithet for Jake -- "Brokeback" -- have been just a coincidence? We think not. (Val Kilmer and George Clooney replaced Michael Keaton, of course, in the original "Batman" franchise, but we're going to pretend like that whole thing didn't happen.)

ART: Eric, Sloane, and Tori get warmed up for their big night over dinner together at "the Dakota," a choice that elicits approval from the boys. How appropriate would it be to help put our boy -- and his ladies -- in the mood for love?

LIFE: As a place for their cutely awkward pas de deux (or, rather, trois), the sensuously leather- and suede-clad Dakota would be hard to beat. For one thing, just the prices alone might impress the pants off your date: a bone-in 18 oz. filet rings in at $54, and the large seafood platter -- enough for three -- is a cool $90. But add to that the fact that the restaurant is attached to Hollywood' super-trendy Roosevelt Hotel, and the journey from table to boudoir couldn't be easier.

 

Can't wait til next Sunday!

I thought everyone knew about it by now, and I'm pretty sure a lot do as I'm watching the vid views/song play numbers skyrocket today (seriously over 25,000 plays in the last three and a half days!), but just in case you are hiding under a rock, here's my newest obsession:

Cobra Starship via myspace

Read Gabe's stuff, the boy is hysterical!

You HAVE to watch the vid</b>, here's the link:
Cobra Starship- Snakes on a Plane music vid.  Its also up on their myspace page... and will be on my page in a min!

And if you can't live without this song, much like my life lately:
Snakes on a Plane for download

Quick background- Gabe, lead singer of Midtown, is friends with FOB and The Academy is... William from Academy Is... introduced Gabe to phenomenon known as Snakes on a Plane, Gabe was very interested, had been working on some solo material, decided to rework one of the songs b/c he just had to find a way to become involved in the movie.  Pete Wentz felt the same way and is releasing the soundtrack on his label, as well as Gabe's new venture, Cobra Starship, the band under which him and William wrote Snakes on a Plane.  Interesting fact, Gabe came up with the band name b/c of his two favorite jackets, one says cobra, the other says something about a starship.

Go read Gabe's ramblings on his friends or enemies page.  I love the latest where he says he's staying with William b/c he wants to cuddle!  Score one for boytouching!

Gabe b/c he's funny:

Funny article about how Gabe snuck into Gwen's fashion week show via Elle Girl and asked her what she thought about his cover "Hollaback Boy"

I'm going to try and go to Cobra Starships very first show which is at the Key Club in a few weeks, and I already put in a request for tix to when they are playing Jimmy Kimmel the next night, thankfully I have a friend who works over there!

Ok, I think thats the end of my spamming my obsession... for now!  Go watch the damn vid!!!!! 

Semi-related note- I can't wait til FOB is finished recording their new cd out here.  My head is going to explode with too much Wentzness!  He's everywhere!!  And now I have to see him on billboards this fall modeling for Gap?  no no no no no!

These were some thoughts from my first week in LA (last year):

 

So, I moved to LA about a month ago. LA should come with a warning: LA- where common sense comes to die. I could keep that broad, but for now, I'll be nice and limit it to the drivers/driving ability of those in LA. #1- people dont know how to stay in their lanes, theres been too many times where I have to slow down b/c the person a little ahead of me in the opposite lane decided to make like Kramer and decide to ignore the lines so they can have luxury sized lanes. Just no, stay in your lane, we'll get along better.

#2- they like to randomly switch lanes. When someone cuts me off, I don't get mad b/c I figure either someone stopped in their lane and they would like to keep driving, or they realized they have to turn soon, not from the lane they were originally in. If that were the case, I can live with that, hell, I lived and drove in Chicago for how long? Cutting people off is more than ok to me! But, the people in LA seem to have no reason for their moves other than maybe that lane didnt look good on their car anymore and my lane seemed like such a better place to be. And the oddest part is that when I get cut off, I look over to see the other lane empty! So fine, I move over and get ahead of them, whatever people.

#3- they drive under the speed limit. When I first got here and wanted to look at everything I passed, I loved this b/c everyone goes so slow anyway! But, now that I know where I'm going and where everything is, for the love of god people, the speed limit is only 35, can we atleast go that ridiculously low speed? When theres 3 lanes and everyone is doing 30, it tends to frustrate me a bit.

#4- I realize that I am a person, and you are driving a car, so when I want to cross the street, I will wait for you to drive by before I cross, you don't have to stop in the middle of the street so I can cross. Really, I appreciate it, its nice and all, but its so unnecessary, you slow everyone down behind you. In Chicago, if you try to cross while someone is driving, they will run you down, and thats ok by me, b/c I have common sense and I realize not to cross in front of cars. On the flip side of this, LA expects you to let them cross! I have now been yelled at and flicked off twice b/c I didnt stop for someone who was trying to cross in the middle of the street when cars were coming. WTF? You wait til there are no cars, or until oncoming traffic has a red, and then you cross, why is that such a hard concept to grasp?!?! OMG, ok, I'm done with LA and the driving situation, b/c really, I could go on all day.