 SOULJA BOY THREATENS TO QUIT MUSICSoulja Boy took to his Twitter Wednesday night to rail against the rap industry and his career with a diatribe that went on for more than 10 posts. The 18-year-old calls a lot of people "crackers" and claims that his rap dream died when "Crank That" went number one. Apparently Soulja Boy deleted all of the posts — maybe when he realized that being an angry teen and posting to a public forum don't really mix — but not before Celebtwitter got the whole thing. > more  FOO FIGHTERS, QOTSA, LED ZEAP MEMBERS FORM NEW SUPERGROUP?Um. This is definitely someone's wet dream. I know that I'm full of math this week, but Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters + Queen of the Stone Age's Josh Homme + Led Zep's John Paul Jones = magic, for reals. The three are reportedly working on an album together, with Grohl on drums for the first time since appearing on studio albums by Prodigy and Juliette and the Licks. Anytime Grohl is on drums is a pretty awesome event, so we can only imagine what this mash up of titans of rock could be like. Josh Homme's wife Brody Dalle, frontwoman of Spinnerette,... > more  THE POWER OF PABLOVESince May of last year, I have been inspired by a great many things: live shows that are unlike ANY I’ve ever seen before (NIN at the Forum 7/19/08), Synecdoche, NY, Sir Ken Robinson’s book “The Element,” the support of my friends and colleagues when I was laid off in November, and my grandfather’s process as he learned to live without his wife of 55 years. But through all those things, nothing even remotely stacks up to the way I felt reading Pablog, the blog written by the family of Pablo Castelaz documenting their feelings, stories, triumphs, let-downs and spirit for all to see and share. You see on May 17th of 2008, Pablo was diagnosed with Wilms’ Tumor a rare childhood cancer and for their family nothing has been the same since.... > more |
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