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Lots more coverage on Michael not being ill - which is good
But this one caught my attention...
Michael Jackson death hoax upsets fans
Michael Jackson
An Albuquerque radio station jokingly reported that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson died from an overdose. Now, some people are speaking out against the radio station, saying the hoax was in bad taste.
"Its not really funny to play around with things like that, someone's life or if they are deceased or not," said a Michael Jackson fan that heard the hoax on the radio.
A disc jockey at 97.7 The Wild, an R&B station, went on the air Tuesday saying Jackson had died.
The joke didn't sit well with some.
“I think it’s pretty cold if its not true if they are just spreading that as a rumor,” said a frequent listener of the station.
The Eyewitness News 4 newsroom even received calls from listeners to confirm the pop star’s death. The disc jockey with the station has reportedly been reprimanded for the stunt.
http://kob.com/article/stories/S719592.shtml?cat=519
What a butthole - ugh :mello:
Amy Winehouse tops ‘Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008’ list
Washington Amy Winehouse has topped 'Hollyscoop.com’s' new list of ‘Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008’.
Winehouse's long list of problems – drug use, run-ins with the law and a dramatic marriage – seemingly multiplied this year after she won five Grammys for her 2006 album ‘Back to Black.’
Concerns about her health grew as the 25-year-old Brit checked in and out of a London hospital, most recently for an allergic reaction to prescribed medication.
Second on the list is Lindsay Lohan. Her only career move in 2008 was a few episodes of "Ugly Betty" and the rest of her year consisted of making headlines for her relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson.
Tara Reid came third while Britney Spears landed the fourth spot.
King of Pop Michael Jackson did absolutely nothing in 2008 except for stepping out in pajamas and facemasks. He also faced lawsuits. Apparently, that was enough to earn him a spot in the Top 5.
The Top Ten Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008 are:
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Tara Reid
4. Britney Spears
5. Michael Jackson
6. Gary Busey
7. Janet Jackson
8. Pamela Anderson
9. Heather Locklear
10. Lily Allen.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-...--Celebrity-Trainwrecks-of-2008--list/402814/
Another butthead - you'd think they'd have something better to do for Christmas.
A swan song for hip-hop artist Cola Zone?
Emma Downs
The Journal Gazette
Cola Zone’s forthcoming album – the 13-track “Immortality Skeems” – is bound to be a local hip-hop classic, further proof of the rapper’s masterful flow and grasp of street aesthetics. But, unfortunately for hip-hop fans, it may also be his last.
“I’ve been doing this for nine years,” he says. “Something needs to happen soon. I want to be part of a movement.”
Cola Zone, also known as Antonio Johnson, is currently recording the final vocals for the album, a selection of fluid street poetry that acts as a base for the intricate loops, imaginative sampling and tough beats found both on his solo efforts and on his collaborations with Konkret Kanvas. But this time, he’s putting everything he has into it, he says.
“I have to go full-fledged with this album,” Johnson says. “I always write for myself. I’m not trying to get everyone to like me. You’d go insane trying to do that. You just have to do you. But I also want to expose people to the diversity of hip-hop. It’s more than what you hear on the radio. And this may be my last album, so I want it to be immortal. I might die, but the music won’t.”
Johnson describes his music as “cinematic hip-hop,” and he regularly drives the point home by peppering his tracks with music from B-horror movies. The effect is intense – nearly foreboding – and when it’s paired with his realist rhymes, the result is rich and thematically dark.
“I’m a very lyrical artist,” he says. “I want to paint a picture. And, just like when you’re watching a movie, you might not catch it all the first time you listen to it. You can find something different every time.”
Johnson further separates himself from current hip-hop trends by adding unusual touches such as live bass lines, obscure samples or discordant piano on his tracks. While everyone else is sampling Michael Jackson or The O’Jays, Johnson is pulling from his vinyl opera collection, he says.
“I want to stick out,” he says. “I want to go left. In five or 10 years, I want to listen to this album and not think it’s trendy. Trends don’t last. Trends die off. The people who have longevity in music are the ones who don’t sound like everyone else. They start the trend.”
edowns@jg.net
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081225/ENT0201/812250350
Koons wins Versailles court case
Published: Thursday 25 December 2008 06:54 UTC
Last updated: Thursday 25 December 2008 13:53 UTC
US artist Jeff Koons has won a court case brought against a controversial exhibition of his work in the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The works on display include a giant dog with balloons and a porcelain figurine of Michael Jackson.
A direct descendent of King Louis the Fourteenth of France, Prince Charles-Emmanuel de Bourbon-Parme, took the artist to court, arguing that the exhibition at the former royal residence was an insult to his forefathers. But the judge threw the case out.
The Jeff Koons exhibition at Versailles has met with considerable criticism but has attracted so many visitors that it has been extended over the holiday period.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6109915/Koons-wins-Versailles-court-case
· FEB. 14- MAY 17 Warhol Live. 9:30 a.m.Ð5:15 p.m. Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun, 9:30 a.m.Ð8:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14-May 17 at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco. This exhibition brings together a wide variety of works depicting pop music royalty, including Elvis Presley, the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Deborah Harry of Blondie, and Michael Jackson. Major Warhol silkscreen paintings, films and sound recordings, album covers, illustrations, and photographs inspired by music and the performing arts will provide a visual and aural score to Warhol's extraordinary work and life. In addition, Warhol Live recreates some of the high points of the relationship between art and music, such as the world of Warhol's legendary Silver Factory, the multimedia performance spectacle Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the Silver Clouds and more. $16-$20. 415-750-3600, www.deyoungmuseum.org.
http://www.montereyherald.com/entertainment/ci_11308774
NYE Celebration of Power and Truth
featuring Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Callupsie and The Doldrums After a mid-summer parking lot run-in, it was decided: A months-old joke about putting together a New Year’s Eve show with the two critically lauded Tulsa music powerhouses (one jazz fusion, one indie rock), featuring cover tunes of Michael Jackson, Prince and Lionel Richie was on. Oh, it was so on.
Indeed, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey joins Callupsie, along with up-and-coming experimental indie act The Doldrums, for what’s likely to be the coolest New Year’s Eve gala in all of northeastern Oklahoma.
Each band will perform a set of original music before all three join onstage for one enthusiastic set of countdown-worthy party classics. Songs for that supercharged last set include Prince’s “Raspberry Beret,” “Kiss” and “1999”; Lionel Richie’s “You Are” and “Dancing on the Ceiling”; and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Billie Jean.”
8 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 day of show, available at Dwelling Spaces, Under the Mooch, The CoEee House on Cherry Street and Shades of Brown CoEee & Art. 18 to enter. Nonsmoking. Casual to formal. The Blank Slate, 222 E. First St. tulsaworld.com/FirstStreetMusicHall, tulsaworld.com/JFJO, tulsaworld.com/Callupsie, tulsaworld.com/DoldrumsMusic
1993 - Michael Jackson's single "Gone Too Soon" hit #23 in the U.K.
Lots more coverage on Michael not being ill - which is good
But this one caught my attention...
Michael Jackson death hoax upsets fans
Michael Jackson
An Albuquerque radio station jokingly reported that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson died from an overdose. Now, some people are speaking out against the radio station, saying the hoax was in bad taste.
"Its not really funny to play around with things like that, someone's life or if they are deceased or not," said a Michael Jackson fan that heard the hoax on the radio.
A disc jockey at 97.7 The Wild, an R&B station, went on the air Tuesday saying Jackson had died.
The joke didn't sit well with some.
“I think it’s pretty cold if its not true if they are just spreading that as a rumor,” said a frequent listener of the station.
The Eyewitness News 4 newsroom even received calls from listeners to confirm the pop star’s death. The disc jockey with the station has reportedly been reprimanded for the stunt.
http://kob.com/article/stories/S719592.shtml?cat=519
What a butthole - ugh :mello:
Amy Winehouse tops ‘Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008’ list
Washington Amy Winehouse has topped 'Hollyscoop.com’s' new list of ‘Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008’.
Winehouse's long list of problems – drug use, run-ins with the law and a dramatic marriage – seemingly multiplied this year after she won five Grammys for her 2006 album ‘Back to Black.’
Concerns about her health grew as the 25-year-old Brit checked in and out of a London hospital, most recently for an allergic reaction to prescribed medication.
Second on the list is Lindsay Lohan. Her only career move in 2008 was a few episodes of "Ugly Betty" and the rest of her year consisted of making headlines for her relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson.
Tara Reid came third while Britney Spears landed the fourth spot.
King of Pop Michael Jackson did absolutely nothing in 2008 except for stepping out in pajamas and facemasks. He also faced lawsuits. Apparently, that was enough to earn him a spot in the Top 5.
The Top Ten Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2008 are:
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Tara Reid
4. Britney Spears
5. Michael Jackson
6. Gary Busey
7. Janet Jackson
8. Pamela Anderson
9. Heather Locklear
10. Lily Allen.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-...--Celebrity-Trainwrecks-of-2008--list/402814/
Another butthead - you'd think they'd have something better to do for Christmas.
A swan song for hip-hop artist Cola Zone?
Emma Downs
The Journal Gazette
Cola Zone’s forthcoming album – the 13-track “Immortality Skeems” – is bound to be a local hip-hop classic, further proof of the rapper’s masterful flow and grasp of street aesthetics. But, unfortunately for hip-hop fans, it may also be his last.
“I’ve been doing this for nine years,” he says. “Something needs to happen soon. I want to be part of a movement.”
Cola Zone, also known as Antonio Johnson, is currently recording the final vocals for the album, a selection of fluid street poetry that acts as a base for the intricate loops, imaginative sampling and tough beats found both on his solo efforts and on his collaborations with Konkret Kanvas. But this time, he’s putting everything he has into it, he says.
“I have to go full-fledged with this album,” Johnson says. “I always write for myself. I’m not trying to get everyone to like me. You’d go insane trying to do that. You just have to do you. But I also want to expose people to the diversity of hip-hop. It’s more than what you hear on the radio. And this may be my last album, so I want it to be immortal. I might die, but the music won’t.”
Johnson describes his music as “cinematic hip-hop,” and he regularly drives the point home by peppering his tracks with music from B-horror movies. The effect is intense – nearly foreboding – and when it’s paired with his realist rhymes, the result is rich and thematically dark.
“I’m a very lyrical artist,” he says. “I want to paint a picture. And, just like when you’re watching a movie, you might not catch it all the first time you listen to it. You can find something different every time.”
Johnson further separates himself from current hip-hop trends by adding unusual touches such as live bass lines, obscure samples or discordant piano on his tracks. While everyone else is sampling Michael Jackson or The O’Jays, Johnson is pulling from his vinyl opera collection, he says.
“I want to stick out,” he says. “I want to go left. In five or 10 years, I want to listen to this album and not think it’s trendy. Trends don’t last. Trends die off. The people who have longevity in music are the ones who don’t sound like everyone else. They start the trend.”
edowns@jg.net
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081225/ENT0201/812250350
Koons wins Versailles court case
Published: Thursday 25 December 2008 06:54 UTC
Last updated: Thursday 25 December 2008 13:53 UTC
US artist Jeff Koons has won a court case brought against a controversial exhibition of his work in the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The works on display include a giant dog with balloons and a porcelain figurine of Michael Jackson.
A direct descendent of King Louis the Fourteenth of France, Prince Charles-Emmanuel de Bourbon-Parme, took the artist to court, arguing that the exhibition at the former royal residence was an insult to his forefathers. But the judge threw the case out.
The Jeff Koons exhibition at Versailles has met with considerable criticism but has attracted so many visitors that it has been extended over the holiday period.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6109915/Koons-wins-Versailles-court-case
· FEB. 14- MAY 17 Warhol Live. 9:30 a.m.Ð5:15 p.m. Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun, 9:30 a.m.Ð8:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14-May 17 at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco. This exhibition brings together a wide variety of works depicting pop music royalty, including Elvis Presley, the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Deborah Harry of Blondie, and Michael Jackson. Major Warhol silkscreen paintings, films and sound recordings, album covers, illustrations, and photographs inspired by music and the performing arts will provide a visual and aural score to Warhol's extraordinary work and life. In addition, Warhol Live recreates some of the high points of the relationship between art and music, such as the world of Warhol's legendary Silver Factory, the multimedia performance spectacle Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the Silver Clouds and more. $16-$20. 415-750-3600, www.deyoungmuseum.org.
http://www.montereyherald.com/entertainment/ci_11308774
NYE Celebration of Power and Truth
featuring Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Callupsie and The Doldrums After a mid-summer parking lot run-in, it was decided: A months-old joke about putting together a New Year’s Eve show with the two critically lauded Tulsa music powerhouses (one jazz fusion, one indie rock), featuring cover tunes of Michael Jackson, Prince and Lionel Richie was on. Oh, it was so on.
Indeed, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey joins Callupsie, along with up-and-coming experimental indie act The Doldrums, for what’s likely to be the coolest New Year’s Eve gala in all of northeastern Oklahoma.
Each band will perform a set of original music before all three join onstage for one enthusiastic set of countdown-worthy party classics. Songs for that supercharged last set include Prince’s “Raspberry Beret,” “Kiss” and “1999”; Lionel Richie’s “You Are” and “Dancing on the Ceiling”; and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Billie Jean.”
8 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 day of show, available at Dwelling Spaces, Under the Mooch, The CoEee House on Cherry Street and Shades of Brown CoEee & Art. 18 to enter. Nonsmoking. Casual to formal. The Blank Slate, 222 E. First St. tulsaworld.com/FirstStreetMusicHall, tulsaworld.com/JFJO, tulsaworld.com/Callupsie, tulsaworld.com/DoldrumsMusic
Today in
Michael Jackson History
1981 - Michael Jackson called Paul McCartney and suggested that they write and record together. The call prompted McCartney to fly to Los Angeles and work on the song "The Girl Is Mine." Michael Jackson History
1993 - Michael Jackson's single "Gone Too Soon" hit #23 in the U.K.
