MC Lars Spreads Positivity; Exclaims: ‘Like Less Shallow Women’
Cutting, cheating, bipolar disorder — Unfortunately, no one is perfect and everyone has problems. Luckily, MC Lars, post-punk laptop-rapper and nerdcore extraordinaire, is here to lend a hand (but sadly, not spit rhymes) in this edition of “Rock N Roll Therapy.”
Isayweriott: So my best friend told me recently that this guy at school gives me these looks, like he wants to really, really get to know me. I’ve avoided having eye contact with him because I’m afraid of what might happen. Today at a fire drill my friend told me that he looked me up and down and then smiled. If he wants to get to know me so much then why doesn’t he talk to me? He has a girlfriend but that doesn’t mean he’s not allowed to talk to girls. Also, I just helped my friend get her first boyfriend and I don’t expect a thank you from him, but she’s never said thank you. I feel like he is replacing me. Finally, I started cutting again because I’m worried about basically everything. I am seriously considering suicide.
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Solongandgoodnight66: I think I may be a bit bipolar or depressed. My friends all feel like I’m leaving them out, when really all I’m doing is trying not to change their perspective of me. I look too fat and when I say what I think people constantly disagree. Nothing I do can come out right, and things that I thought I enjoyed, I now dread. My friends are a task, something I’ve got to struggle to impress or please. Things are just … not enjoyable.
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Bulldozerkid: I liked this one girl, so I asked her out and she said, “Hell no! You’re too ugly.” What should I do now?
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Muse ‘Getting the Ball Rolling Again’ With New Tunes
Muse have been very busy this past week in Italy. And they’re not making pasta — they’re making a new record.
“About a week ago we just started on some new stuff and actually started playing some new tracks and writing some new songs. So we are just getting the ball rolling again. We’ve been off the kind of creative period for so long, being on tour, so once you get back together — you have to start thinking that kind of way. You have to kind of push that ball and get it rolling. “And we did it and it sounded great so we got a few tracks together and it’s coming along so that’s what we’re doing right now,” singer Dominic Howard revealed to BBC 6Music.
The U.K. rock band – which released its latest studio full-length, Black Holes and Revelations, back in 2006 – isn’t sure whether the new record will share a similar sound to the past four. Howard said: “You get a whole bunch of ideas in the can and it’s not until later on that you actually decide what they should sound like and where they should go really,” before adding that, “it’s really exciting times.”
Muse have four tour dates scheduled for the summer:
6.6: Lisbon, Lisboa @ Rock in Rio
8.13: Dublin, Ireland @ Marlay Park
8.16: Chelmsford, East @ V Festival
8.17: Staffordshire, Northwest @ V Festival
The band recently put out a downloadable three-song “track pack” for Guitar Hero III and a new live DVD/CD, HAARP, capturing their two shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in June 2007.
Foxboro Hot Tubs Pull Out All the Stops as Trek Ends
LONG BEACH, California — Surfboards, a “mystery” bartender and stage-diving security guards: Foxboro Hot Tubs pulled out the shenanigans for the final stop of their brief tour on Wednesday night.
Alex’s Bar, a tiny venue that only holds 178 people, was filled to capacity by 6:01. It was easily the smallest venue of the three Foxboro shows I attended this week.
The first surprise of the night came during opening band Mystic Knights of the Cobra’s set. While standing toward the back of the bar, I noticed one bartender in particular who wasn’t there before — Tre Cool! The Green Day drummer was handing out free drinks to whomever he saw, yelling, “Tips! Tips!” It was hilarious, although the whole scene only lasted for a couple of minutes.
After finding my spot in the very front of the stage, Foxboro hit the stage at 11 p.m. … but where was Billie Joe Armstrong? The past two nights he had ran onstage with them. I felt something hit the back of my head — it was a giant surfboard with Billie Joe on top of it! The security guards had carried him from the back of the venue, all the way to the stage.
The band launched into Stop, Drop and Roll!!! and played the exact same set as the two previous nights — and it still sounded incredible. The songs never get old, and watching Billie Joe stage-dive, create giant chants and run around the stage (without playing a guitar!) is something I could never get sick of watching.
I did have a couple of complaints, though. My first was the crowd — half of it was made up of buff dudes who shouted and yelled with beers in their hands, while knocking people over for absolutely no reason, the entire time. The majority of the crowd did not know the words to any of the songs, including the one Green Day track they played (“Blood, Sex and Booze”). Many just came to stand and watch the performance … but I wish I had people to sing along with.
My other complaint was that the giant security guards decided to stand onstage the entire time, blocking my view of the band. However, as soon as the bandmembers began jumping into the crowd, the guards did too.
The show ended at 12:30 a.m., and the crowd cleared out pretty quickly. I was able to meet both Tre and Mike Dirnt, although Billie Joe was nowhere to be found. These shows (much like the Pinhead Gunpowder gigs I attended in February) were another once-in-a-lifetime chance for me to see my favorite band of 14 years, performing in very intimate settings. I can’t wait to see Green Day perform again but could do without the 20,000-seat arenas next time around!
CONFIRMED News from Pete and Ashlee: Baby Wentz on Board!
The Wentz’s got hitched last weekend in Los Angeles.
Quick! Get thee to all past Pete blogs to decipher possible cryptic baby messages! And raise your hand if you think Papa Joe is having a heart attack. Also, we should guess names. For fun.