SouleD Out

"A day tripper"...La, La, La!               "And i love her"...ya, ya, YA!   

Guess what? Someone else wants a Beatle's money...who could it be? Ah yes, super crazy Heather Mills! She was so-called married to Paul McCartney and that little "love affair" is going to cost Paul a nice sum of $50 million to Heather Mills. A marriage that lasted less than 4 years. Mills was a nobody before she met McCartney, now she is famous! She is the worlds most hated woman, hehe.

They married in 2002, she gave birth to their daughter, are they really sure it is even his? Their two-year court battle was plastered all over the internet, all over television, all over everywhere, but yet she really did want to keep it private, oh brother! A demand for $250 million was in her mind, justified, you see, she deserved it because why? Oh yes, because she married a Beatle, that's right. Remind me next time if I get a divorce, I am setting my sights on a damn Beatle!

Heather was pretty much a deadbeat, she knew how to make a dollar with prostitution, lying, cheating and crying the blues all the time. So why is it that she needs to take Paul's "Hard days Night's" earnings? She can turn a trick or two or three and have their daughter's tuition paid off in no time.

Herein lies the problem with this whole court settlement though, the court cash settlement won't be the end of McCartney's financial distribution. He was also ordered to pay their daughter a whopping $70,000..A YEAR! I wonder if they need a babysitter? I am wonderfully patient with children, especially when it pays, oh maybe...$30 or $40 thousand a year.

Beatrice, the daughter is not quite financially mature yet anyway, I mean she has a little ways to go, she is only 4 still. Give her a year and I am sure she will know what to do with all that money, or her mom will at least! As Mills left the London court building she did not hesitate to show her disgust over the ruling. I am just taking a wild guess here, but I don't think that $50 Mil is what she was going to stay happy over. Most gold diggers don't!

McCartney, along with the world have labeled her a gold digger, I on the otherhand I just label her smart. Anyone who sets their standards that high and succeeds, makes the men who fall for it the stupid ones.

Well let's look on the bright side of things, Paul is finally done with that tramp and can go out and grab himself a new one, I heard they are lined up outside of the Palace trying on the glass slipper that was left in Paul McCartney's closet.

For the stars anyway! Celebrities busted for DUI's? Say it isn't so, they are stars, they never do anything wrong, right? wrong!

In all seriousness, On every corner of Hollywood is a Police Officer attempting to understand the slurred speech of some Celebrity we all love and know. Just recently, there has been an overabundance of arrests, starting with Mischa Barton arrested Dec 27, 2007 for DUI and possession of marijuana.

Daniel Dae Kim from the television show "Lost" was arrested Dec 27, 2007 as well for DUI. Jim Leyritz, a former NY Yankee felt as though December 27th was a good day for him to get popped for a DUI too, except he took it a step further when his resulted in the death of a woman in Florida.

Michelle Rodriguez, another beauty from the show Lost jumped on the DUI wagon, I thought they were supposed to jump off the wagon? Other celebrities busted for DUI's include Rebecca DeMornay, Danielle Fishel, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie.

Yasmine Bleeth was not paying enough attention on September 2001, when she drove her car onto a highway median. Bleeth, the baywatch beauty was arrested and charged on DUI, drug possession and many other charges that run a mile long!

What is going on with our Hollywood women? I suppose it is not enough to be beautiful and rich, you need to own the title of "Booze Queen". Usually the idea is to hail yourself a cab, hire a driver or walk your little dog around Beverly Hills, not get behind the wheel of your car, especially drunk!

The list does not just contain celebrity women, the guys are finding this a way of life for them as well. Haley Joel Osment ( He sees dead people!) decided that "seeing dead people" was not exciting anymore, so he got himself busted with drunk driving and marijuana possession after he crashed his car while returning home from a Los Angeles concert in July 2006.

Keifer Sutherland knows what number comes after "24" it is "25" the number of the day he was arrested for drunk driving, September 25th, 2007. Sutherland, is known as "Jack Bauer" in the television series 24. Maybe he should have used that name instead to maybe get away from that $25,000 bail slapped on him!

Nick Carter should have taken the "backstreet" while driving home on March 2005. The Backstreet Boy couldn't evade Police on his drunk driving charges either. These stars just don't get it, do they? They must know that laws apply to them too, how could they not?

   Well not entirely, she poses for New York Magazine.

Lindsay Lohan, In the media again? Say it isn't so! Lindsay Lohan, the 21 year old actress/singer is known for all her public rants, stunts and especially her love for the camera, so it is no surprise to me that she has decided to bare it all in front of the camera lens of famous photographer Bert Stern who first photographed Marilyn Monroe in 1962 . Lindsay has been all over the Internet talking about her love of Marilyn Monroe, her sadness over Keith Ledger's death and her own life as a celebrity and tragic life as a child growing up in the Industry.

Lindsay Lohan reportedly posed nude for New York Magazine in a shoot that was to recreate the legendary Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot, nude. The photographer Bert Stern who originally did the legendary shoot with blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe felt that the actress Lindsay Lohan had similar qualities as Marilyn and offered the shoot to her. She posed in various positions with various props, which if you ask me do not do her justice at all.

Marilyn Monroe cannot be compared to a "failing child star" such as Lindsay Lohan. The similarities the two share such as repeated drug abuse and alcoholism may link them together as so called "sister's from another" , but they are definitely two different breeds of celebrity. Marilyn Monroe is a pure legend, every man, woman and child fell in love with the beautiful and captivating singer/actress. Lindsay Lohan on the other hand has confused and entertained us with numerous erratic behavior schemes and off the wall publicity stunts that ultimately just display her sad life as a drug addicted child star, like so many before her.

People.com recently did an interview with the star Lindsay and when they asked her about the similarities of her and that of Marilyn Monroe, and Marilyn's untimely death, she basically replied, "I don't know. I'm not them. But I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me." according to the magazine PEOPLE. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that she wants the media, fans and even family to believe the same kind of fate could happen to her. A cry for attention is what most child stars know how to do well. Getting it is another story.

To date the well known Lindsay Lohan has been spiraling down the road of "lost fame" and is headed more towards a Brittany Spears recreation than that of Marilyn Monroe. Her hair color changes just about as often as her irrational behavior and new career endeavors, so believe me when I say she is literally "reaching for the stars".

America's "In Touch" Magazine reports that Lohan shot the "eye catching" photos on a beach in Malibu, California sometime last week and was inspired to pose nude after seeing Paris Hilton pose topless for a Vanity Fair Magazine cover. This according to a source from IMDb.com

In some of the photo's Lindsay copies her idol Marilyn Monroe's famous pose, but doesn't appear to have done 250 stomach crunches as stated in an interview with PEOPLE MAGAZINE.What seemed interesting but sad in this whole adventure with Lindsay lohan is that she seemed to speak of celebrities that have either ended their lives or died an untimely death. This should be concerning for her family or friends, and if anything is a cry for help it would be a suicide wish. She is so young and beautiful but is seriously coming close to perhaps not a physical death but rather a career death, such as the one Brittany Spears seems to be hosting.

NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL "ROCKSTARDUMB"!

  So it happened...It finally happened! I have been spending the last month or so...OK let's stay real, the last YEAR or SO, trying to understand the Industry.  I was trying to justify why I subject myself to this sort of torture. There really is no such thing as NORMAL when speaking about the Music Industry. The picture of Amy Wino..uh, I mean Amy Winehouse looks like a cross between Dennis Rodman and Boy George (which I truly believe may really be the same person).  Almost looks like well, SICK! The Music Industry is just NOT right people.

This post would be longer than the track marks on Amy's arm if I tried to cover her whole story about going to rehab, not going to rehab. C'mon people, she even sang a song about it for Lepperchaun's sake! SHE'S NOT GOING! She already stated that in the song, Daddy made her go to rehab and she said, no, no, NO! I think we should just leave her alone, she likes looking like something that Steven Speilberg created in his twisted mind or one of his horror movies.

I have finally also came up with an idea of what to do with Michael jackson's Never never land, when he loses it to the $23 mil lawsuit, the amount in which he first owed on the loan. I think we should develop the land and make a nice cozy property for all these poor strung out rockstars that are "down and out in Beverly hills"!

An even better idea would be to "house" all of them there, and allow the public to come for guided tours, a real life wax museum of sorts! I think I better "copyright" that idea, how much do you want to make a bet, we will soon have a place called, "Lost in Never-Neverland".

Over the years of me writing, dabbling with music, being a mom, wife and friend, I have just seen the world travelling at a scary speed down the toilet bowl.  I am now convinced that the Music industry is partly to blame, after examing the photos of Eddie Van Halen yeah I'm shocked too!), Brittany Spears, Michael Jackson, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Wino, how could you disagree?

The people or musicians that seem to stay sane, are those that just do it for fun, not fame.  Eddie van halen is a legendary rockstar, but by that photo above, I swear I saw him last week at the bus stop and I gave him a dollar! Nickleback wrote a song about it, "I wanna be a rockstar" and somewhere in his brilliant lyrics say, " The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap, and we'll stay skinny cus we just won't eat", not to mention the next verse, "That everyone has a drug dealer on speed dial".

I don't know about you, but the thought of aging a zillion years, weighing 67 pounds and not being able to remember what gender I am...just so I can be a rockstar, doesn't sound too good to me.

Now I am sure I have sound  of "sour grapes" in my words, and maybe I do a bit.  I am thinking though, that it just was not the life for me, this is way more fun, to be able to sit back and READ the "latest dictionary of today's who's who".

    Holy you know what! Even though I believe this spooky picture of Marilyn Manson belongs up with my celebrity rehab story, I decided to give this guy? his own spot, sort of like "ISO" you know Isolation, the term they use in prisons.  Marilyn Manson has decided to fight back against MASSIVE criticism that his music influences teenagers to act out on violent urges that leads to tragedies such as the Columbine High School Shooting and every other media-driven act of violence out there.

No while I do believe music is influencial, it is not mind altering in that way, music is not crazy, people are crazy! Now believe me there have been times that I hear music from some bands that I call "AAH BANDS" you know the screaming, demonic grunt bands that do not quite seem human. RAP, yeah that's another one, I listen to some of these genres and I myself feel capabale of a "drive by shooting". But see, I am not already crazy in the head (shut up) so I know that if I did a drive by shooting that I could quite possibly end up in "ISO" remember that word, it means Prison Isolation.

Marilyn, C'mon man, you could "tone it down a bit" just to be sure you don't attract any crazies...oooh! haha! that even sounded funny to write! His look would be enough to scare me from wanting to be like him, and although he may be a bit strange in the head, because let's face it, he DOES look hideous, and well I think you would have to be a little "not right" to even attempt that fashion statement, but what do I know I suppose, the guy is like a zillionaire I hear. Well if you feel or should I say hear any voices in your head today calling you to listen to the guy with the one blue eye and the...oh well you know what I mean...marilyn Manson, here you go....

Listen to the singles "Heart Shaped Box," "Just Another Car Crash," "Saint," "Spade," and "Par Noir" - click here.

       Back in 06 Heidi Fleiss bought 60 acres of land in Nevada, and was preparing to open 'Heidi's Stud Farm'. Oh Goodness! And the first name on her list of male escorts hired to work on the Stud Farm was Mike Tyson. You know who I am referring to, the former heavyweight boxing champ that likes to beat up women, and has a hard time with the english language it seems...That guy!

Heidi has high hopes for her new recruit: "I told him, 'You're going to be my big stallion.' It's every man's fear that their girlfriend will go for Mike Tyson."  Yeah I bet, the legal shenannigans that would go along with your girlfriend hooking up with Tyson...what are you gonna do? beat him up? There's just not enough time in a day to wash myself clean after reading that article.

So here we are today, and the "sick puppy" I feel like, have been trying to find out whatever became of the Ma'dam and her Mr. Not too much being said on the net. TMZ doesn't seem to care, so why do I, you ask? I JUST do. Maybe it is because I just cannot imagine Mike Tyson, oh great, another shower! Am I the only one that thinks this guy is laughable, not huggable?

Photo Courtesy of AmericanIdol.com

American Idol, The next biggest thing! Or so it would seem. I have fallen prey to this mass craze of amateur songbirds displaying their talent or lack of talent on air, who would have thought it to be so entertaining! With the writer's strike holding strong, American Idol was a true blessing in rock star disguise.

I have been following every season, criticizing every hopeful, crying for every loser and still can't wait for 2009! This year it has gotten off to a fabulous start I must say. I sure hope they keep bringing on the "whack jobs" which essentially makes the show, let's be honest here, if the entire show was based on very talented musicians, no one would watch. It is just like going to the local karaoke bar and being able to have a good chuckle when the drunk guy starts to sing "Born To Be Wild" If everyone in the bar was a really good singer or seasoned musician, karaoke would not be that entertaining.

So far, and we are still in the beginning of the season, most of the hopefuls either sound exactly like each other or have displayed some degree of mental illness, thus leaving a hard decision for the Producers, bring it to a reality TV level or chance losing viewers. No Television Station wants to lose viewers, so I think we are going to have a new Reality based Show, maybe they should call it, "The American Reality". Because I am such an "American Idol Buff" I am hoping to see the comical side of it take over for seasons to come, that is way more interesting and entertaining for me.

Laughter adds years to your life, and God Bless American Idol for contributing to my good health. Watch closely and you will see a lot of comedians coming on stage, rather than Musicians, how wonderful would that be to have even more talented comics running through our comedy clubs, Lord knows we are running out of truly good comedians, or maybe they have just moved to late night. Television would no longer need writers if these Artist's, I mean comedians applied for the job. I do however, think that they (American Idol) will keep airing strong for years to come, I see it everyday in my line of work, We will never run out of people shooting for the stars and dreaming big, especially in Los Angeles, the "Star Struck" Capital of the world.

      American Idol, the hot new, or should I say, return "reality" based show that millions of viewers watch every Tuesday, Wednesday and sometimes Thursday nights on Fox Channel 11. I have been a fan of the show, but can now say I am a "Recovering Idol Addict". The first season had everyone screaming for more, the second season had us hooked, the third season made us search out recovery for a musical addiction and 4-6th season had us eagerly waiting for the new American Idol. Now here we are today, This is Season 7 and I believe most of us are waiting for the eliminations. I must say that after last night's episode, I am even more disillusioned.

Paula, Randy, Simon and Ryan most definitely make the show, if it were not for them, I probably would stop watching by now. I used to tune in immediately, it was like a Super Bowl Pre-Game, I needed to be siting on the couch when opening credits and songs came on. Now, I "skim" the show, not everyone is worthy of my attention, sadly. Last night was no exception.

As like many things, all good things must come to an end. I believe this holds true with American Idol this year, the year of 2008, the season of "fake talent". If you have not noticed yet, most of the contestants have already had Record Deals, been spot-lighted by Talent Agencies, or have been involved in the Music Industry to some degree already. Granted some of them have been eliminated due to voting by now, but they should have never made it on to begin with.

Should this be allowed? Absolutely not! American Idol is supposed to be all about "new talent". What is so new about a singer or songwriter that has already traveled this road before, and apparently was turned down or ran his or her course? I want to see fresh faces, new talent that has never before been heard, and I want to laugh at the endless casualties that they put on there to grab our attention. I do not want to see professional artist's, professional bands or professional comedians.

After watching last night's episode (2/26/08) on Fox 11, I have my favorites, This year I think that Jason Castro should be given a serious chance. He has the look, the personality and definitely the pipes for the job. We have had blonde beauties, good looking guys and even the crazy off the wall rocker look...never the Reggae/rocker with talent look or sound. Last night he was truly amazing. He came out mesmerizing everyone with those deep blue eyes and innocent smile. His song choice was perfect, however Randy and Simon did not believe so, Paula and I did.

We watched the guys rock out on this episode, some more of the rocker type than other's but all in all, they have a tight competition going. David Archuleta can sing but I am not too sure if he is actually the next big thing. He is adorable, but not really star quality, not in this current line up. David Cook did a fantastic job not only showing us his "rocking style" but also standing up to Simon. I loved the smug look on David's face when he politely but confidently told Simon how the show works, brilliant!

I truly believe the top contestants for the men will be David Cook, Jason Castro, Michael Johns, these men being the last standing throughout the eliminations in the coming weeks. Michael Johns has me a bit confused though, anyone that can pull off "Queen" is a self made star, but there is something too "pro" about him that I do feel is not right for the American Idol, time will tell I suppose.

Last night was the " Guys night out" and I will be anxiously waiting for the elimination on Thursday night. We have one more to go tonight which will be "The girls night out". With eliminations following on Thursday.

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Gene Simmons, the 58-year-old front man for the rock band KISS, is known for his "fascination" for women, his extraordinary tongue --oh I mean makeup -- and his very dignified and calm demeanor. So what is this we hear? It's rumored he has a sex tape out? The rumors say it happens to be with spokes-model "Elsa" from Frank's Energy Drink, and guess what? Gene Simmons just so happens to be endorsing that drink -- maybe in more ways than one.

Let's face it. Gene Simmons may have been a "Rock God" back in the day, but lately he has been busy trying to keep that Rock God Title by doing everything from Reality TV shows such as Celebrity Apprentice, Gene Simmons Family Jewels and Rock School to now pimping out an Energy Drink that supposedly enhances stamina.

One should wonder if such tapes are made for publicity purposes or just plain stupidity. Maybe we will never know. I can tell you just about every celebrity has made one, though. But why is it always the "rock stars" or reality show divas? I have yet to see a tape floating around that features Nicole Kidman or Jay Leno. It does leave a taste of "pure publicity" in my mouth, though.

Now, not that Gene Simmons is any kind of rocket scientist or anything of that nature, but he is still a very smart and brilliant business man. His long time girlfriend Shannon Tweed is no turnip, either, so, if it is in fact Simmons, because there are a few questions if it really is...this makes me wonder just how much of it was planned and possibly choreographed by none other than Shannon herself? There have been no reports of such producing, but you must consider the obvious. It is out on the net for all to see. The energy drink "Frank's" is mentioned and shown all through the video, several times, so you know his people, their people and even Shannon's people are all over it right about now.

According to GenesSecret.com, they have the suspect video that Gene doesn't want you to see. And they have not been shut down yet? Gene, what happened? You are not on the ball here. Did that energy drink fizz out on you? So, I don't have any doubt that there is an "entertaining film" around that features the amazing "Rock God" showing off his trademark body part with another woman, but I wonder just how much everyone was paid, including Shannon.

Want to see the video? Well you are going to pay $29.99 for the full video or $9.95 for a clip! What? And people think this wasn't planned!