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I Hate Myself For Loving You: Ryan Adams

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Ryan Adams is an incredibly talented artist who has made at least three CDs worth every penny we paid for them. Unfortunately, despite this immense talent, he has very little concept of what makes a cohesive, flowing, tightly-packed album. Even those three great records (Gold, Cold Roses discs one and two, and even Heartbreaker) have so much filler that they are 45 minute masterpieces turned 75-minute wobbling opuses.

This inability to see his own limitations has carried over into Adams' personal life, giving Gawker and gossip rags a million stories to goof on him with. Someone this good looking, grungy, and totally "rock star" (often in the worst sense of the term) would attract this unwanted attention even if he wasn't accused of:

Ryan Adams... who has an aversion to bathing, is a jerk. "He was really nasty to (ex-girlfriend) Mandy Moore. He would always pick on her and say the meanest things. Like he had to tear her down to make himself feel better. And he's so narcissistic it's unreal. He constantly Googles himself and is obsessed with what people say about him online." A rep for Adams said, "I don't think any of that stuff is true. He was really super-good to [Moore], and he just felt it didn't work out. That's a bunch of nonsense." [Page Six]

Courtney Love isn't helping things either. From a blog post, apparently accusing Adams of abuse of her credit card:

Ryan Adams you fucking weasel. deal with it.858,00$
Current mood: determined

Adams then made his breakup with Mandy Moore more public than anyone ever wanted it to be with this post, which everyone (i.e. Gawker) believes is about her:

Ryan, if you're reading this: fuck what anybody says about you, including us. But please try to keep things in perspective (stopping a show to throw out a fan who called for "Summer of '69," the Bryan Adams song, is not helping our enjoyment of said show), don't get high and drunk dial reporters, and if someone says, "Hey, there are 24 songs here and 12 of them are worth putting out," maybe you should put out a record with those 12 songs on them and leave the rest for Ryan Adams - The Bootleg Series.

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Sloppy Seconds: The Truth About The "Abusive" Paul McCartney

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:00 GMT

An earthquake this morning registered 5.4 on the Andy Richter scale and was felt from LA to Vegas and down to Mexico. There were no reported injuries as of post time.

Although he's charged with a DUI, Shia LaBeouf was not at fault for the car crash that flipped his truck. The other driver has been ticketed for running a red light...

PageSix claims Marc Jacobs has wed in Paris... and if you didn't know, he married...

his Brazilian boyfriend in a civil ceremony... which is not legally binding.

Other sources speculate that this is just a decoy move while Jacobs gets married elsewhere, away from the prying press...

Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron are to appear on a breast cancer telethon the night of September 5th.

We couldn't imagine Paul McCartney ever hitting anyone-- shit, could you imagine the guy who wrote "Yesterday" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" getting medieval on anyone? Now, Heather Mills' ex-publicist is speaking out and basically confirming what we suspected all along: the evidence of McCartney abusing his ex-wife was completely fabricated to help the wife's case.

We're pretty sure it's a fake of... something... but WTF is this photo Gawker posted?

You can download the Walkmen's excellent new album for $5, with all of the proceeds going to the cause of one hospitalized baby. The music revolution, indeed.

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Raffi: Godfather of Indie Hipster Fashion?

Steve McKay — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:36:00 GMT

The punkers had Iggy Pop, the grungers had Neil Young and the…um…soulsters had James Brown, but people, how many times have walked through Williamsburg or Wicker Park or Kensington Market or any other hipster neighborhood in any other city and said to yourself “Where the fuck did these people come from?” Or, if we may expatiate from there “Who is the Godfather of Indie Hipster Fashion?” Well kids, we think we've found the answer here with this picture of popular children’s entertainer Raffi. Note the wildly patterned shirt, colorful wide-brimmed cap and unruly beard. Devendra Banhart eat your heart out!