UPDATE – Warrant Reveals Jackson Likely Died After Dose of Propofol; Coroner Declares Death Homicide
At last! Someone has the balls to out the hypocrisy of the media and general public … something I have been banging on about on my Twitter page since I heard of his death.
Mutha F*cking HYPOCRITES!
And this is just an example of the media hype & hysteria and how the public has short memory, short attention span & is generally short of brains.
Southside Festival Germany 2009 – part two – NIN & Co
Saturday 20th June – After hours on the razz non-stop, I finally hit the sack at… err…don’t know the time but it was getting light. Nothing much to tell until I woke up at …err…no idea of the time but it was afternoon, my head hurt something silly and I had no voice (a blessing in disguise, I hear some of you say)
Details of the rank loo experience while hangover as fuck aside, time was flying and all of a sudden it was time to hit the festival stages again…But first some beer to ease the pain.
Gogol Bordello was on at the Green Stage at…err…don’t know. All I know is that me and my homies made it there in time to see some of his set and attempt some dancing and singalong but all we managed to do was to stand there kinda mesmerized by the energy coming from the stage while pitifully lacking any energy ourselves. It was enjoyable, the band was tight and the crowd got well into it but I must admit it wasn’t my cuppa. Still, I feel I must give them a WIN
Editors followed. Even though I had been told by a reliable source they were pretty good live, I wasn’t expecting much. I was/am dubious of bands when they show up from bloody nowhere, sign a major deal, release an album that goes straight on to number 1 after being flogged to death on TV and every single commercial radio station on the land. Call me a cynic if you must but I have seen way too many bands/artists “arrive” in the scene that way and to vanish just as quick. Having said all that, Editors were good. I was impressed with his voice, which does sound exactly the same. None or very little reverb was used. My educated guess is that there was no reverb in use. Their sound was powerful but clean. The band as a whole was as tight as a rat`s arse! WIN
I vaguely remember seeing Eagles of Death Metal perform 1 or 2 songs but I was shattered so I decided to have a nap until midnight as NIN was on at 12.30 and I wanted to be compos mentis then. It goes without saying that I didn’t manage to nap due to the anxiety which was now pretty high. Why was I anxious? Because I was about to be surrounded by NIN psychofans who could potentially recognize me and carry out some of the threats I received after His Holiness Trent Reznor flamed them and set them loose on me. But that is old news now so…
Nine Inch Nails was on at the Blue Stage. Unlike some of the other bands which came on earlier, NIN was the first (and only) band to keep the punters waiting. It wasn’t a long wait to be honest, 10 minutes tops, but it was cold and raining so it was unpleasant and unnecessary. Obviously I speak for myself but I know most punters were pissy about this because they started to boo and shouts of “oh c`mon!” were heard loud and clear. Later I was to find out by a reliable source that the band didn’t arrive at the festival site until like 20 minutes before the gig. Not a very professional approach from Mr.Perfect, is it?
Lights deemed and the stage filled with smoke. I moved my plump ass closer to the stage and managed to position myself a few feet from the shortest microphone placed in the middle of the stage. NIN came on in style! Robin Finck guitar was deafening. The drummer reminded me of Animal, in a really good way. They were both great! Then the unexpected happened: Trent Reznor started to “sing” and his deep, low voice was almost inaudible. As he struggled to mutter his own songs, at the end of each line an excessive amount of reverb kicked in. Cant blame the PA because the rest of the band was doing just fine. The reverb was there to hide the fact Reznor no longer can deliver. His voice is gone and we are left with a sweaty, bloated, old & angry looking excuse of a man/artist with moobs. All through the show Reznor looked “out of it” and there was a lot of going back and forth to have a sip at the beer can next to the drums which lead me and my companions in the crowd to assume he was legless. This assumption was confirmed when, while erratically pacing about, he slipped and almost fell to the ground. So, all things considered, it was a FAIL
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Southside Festival Germany 2009
Thursday 18th June – Arrived in Zweibrucken to beautiful sunshine and a beautiful smiley face of my friend Iris who was picking me up and driving me to Saarbrucken where I was to spend the rest of the day in her garden eating cherries straight from the tree and annoying her cat with a long/thin stick. Later the same day we had a lovely dinner at a rather picturesque local old brewery come restaurant where I was introduced to the delights of krautbeer.
9 am Friday 19th June – Iris, Nichole and me finally finished packing the big van which was to be our home for the next 3 days with everything we could possibly think of minus the kitchen sink. We said our good-byes to the cats, set not 1 but 2 sat-navs and off we went, festival bound.
What I wasn’t aware of was that the tiny airfield in Neuhausen ob Eck where the festival was held was in the middle of the Black Forrest, almost 4hrs drive away from our departing point. Glad to say we took a shortcut (?) through France and shaved some 100km off the journey.
Several beers ater, I mean hours later, we arrived. Thank fuck! We drove around a bit, found a spot near the loos (but not too near so we wouldn’t run the risk of suffocating with the notorious vile fumes which would no doubt come from it), unpacked some gear, dressed down to match the already pissed & unwashed revelers in the caravan next to us and off we went to watch a few bands.
We managed to see the last couple of tunes by Less Than Jake. They were up on the Green Stage. I thought they were a good “warm up” band. WIN. Little did I know they were far better than the following act…
Lily Allen was a let down. I didn’t quite get why the fuck she was there in the first place. But I stood there for as long as I possibly could before I walked away from a cold, distant, un-passionate, mechanical set where Lily hardly managed to smile at the crowd and the bored looking musicians. Ok, she is competent and hits her notes but she totally lacked the festival spirit. FAIL
Fleet Foxes were on next at the Blue Stage. If you are not familiar, let me try to describe them: they look like hairy Yetis but sing like angels. Anyway, as they started their set it started to rain quite heavily. Wet and cold we stood there in total awe because they were simply divine! Their mellow tunes delivered to perfection. It was quite an experience and I highly recommend you go watch them. Big WIN
I was soaked to the bone and cold so I duly went to get pissed at a Brazilian kiosk selling caipirinhas. Damn! They were good! So good in fact that I lost track of time, missed Fettes Brot and most of Die Arzte. But I must say that from what I saw of Die Arzte they were really good and a real crowd pleaser. I didn’t stay until the end because their set overlapped with Nick Cave.
I arranged a meeting point with the girls and off I went. Needless to say we never managed to find each other but that’s another story.
Pissed, wet, cold and alone I went to the Blue Stage to watch Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. This one is easy to write about: it was fucking awesome, mind blowing, brilliant performance! And what a sexy mutha fuka! Even when the PA died on him, he carried on until the end of the song before leaving the stage for a few short minutes. He returned, apologized to the punters, had a dig at the sound engineers and went on to deliver what was to become the highlight of the festival IMHO. Uber mega bitchin WIN
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It’s been an interesting experiment over the last few years or so. (I hear you ask: “what has?“) Faced with leaving the infrastructure of traditional every day life and figuring out what the right thing to do is in this new world – I found myself realizing that for me to have any concept of how to interact with my followers, friends & family all over the world and know what they are up to, I needed to immerse myself in that world and live it for a while.
When Twitter made it’s way to my radar I looked at it as yet another social network, then started experimenting. I watched some people get more “engaged” because they started to realize there’s a person back there, and I watched some of you seriously love or hate me and my online persona.
The problem with really getting “engaged” in any community in real life or online is getting through the clutter and noise. In a closed environment like my personal page here on WordPress like in any other of my pages, a lot of this can be moderated but what is the point in only listening and acknowledging those who love me? It’s tedious and feels like a waste of time having people massage my ego 24/7.
Back to Twitter. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and “human”. I was not expecting to broadcast details of my life there, but it happened because I’m alive. If this has bummed you out or destroyed what you’ve projected on me, fair enough – it’s probably time for you to leave me da fuk alone.
Looks like the NIN psychofan contingency has discover Twitter! Finally! For those of you that don’t know what this is, please let me explain. NIN psychofans natural habitat is at NIN.com, the home of the absolutely worst, most hardcore star brown nosing you have ever came across. It’s populated by females & males who publicly fantasize about having sex or being friends with Trent Reznor. Kind of like a role-playing game where people NOBODY will fuk or be genuine friends with make up stories about their incredible encounters with sweaty, fat & mumbling old Trent. It would be kind of funny in a sad and pathetic way except the fun doesn’t stop there – brown nosing and good old-fashioned outright c*cksucking are also encouraged to spice things up and remind you (the reader) how truly mistaken these poor people are. TRULY desperate on the inside (the outside is pretty emo looking).
So when you see the new accounts that pop up daily on Twitter doing the kind of arse licking Reznor or his ladyboy looalike (IMO), take a moment and picture either of both of them & their PR machine behind them.
Anyway, I’m bored waiting for the shops to open and there’s no real moral to the story here, just writing. I will be staying on the social networking sites because at the end of the day it’s now amusing me more than ever and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. I rule 
I had thought a while ago about attempting to start my own site where i`d still continue to value my eFriends and RL friends opinions over TrentfreakingReznorandbabybrideMariqueenwhateverthefeckishersurname. Know what I mean? But I kinda discarded that idea because we’re in a world where the up & coming private sites (unlike mine would be) dont care if any and all people are in because it wouldnt be looking to boost user numbers for the big selloff by allowing stars cyber-bully & threaten so in reality it wouldnt be very competitive in comparison to, lets say, NIN.com (which is mainly a site for Reznor and only people who love him). Having said that, if you`re a programmer and want to help build a site for me, you and any other open-minded, free speaking opinionated, thin/fat, beautiful/ugly etc …blababla… Drop me a line
With all of that said, I have business in the real world to attend to including going to shops, DOING some more packing for my long weekend away and spending as much time as possible with the most amazing woman in the world, ME. HA!
Oh! By the way! I`m not waving goodbye or ending my social network experiment….because if I announced that I would have the courage of my convictions and not go post something a couple of days after such an announcement
Note – Parody comments based on the original comments are very welcome 
Disclaimer – This piece is a light hearted parody and its not my intention to upset anyone. It doesnt mean anything and it doesnt go anywhere, pretty much like the original post
Thx to Perez Hilton for this photo
After what now seems like weeks of this pre-pubescent flame war between Trent Reznor and a selected few, it seems it has now come to the attention of the masses. That includes NIN psychofans, NIN normal fans, NIN non fans, NIN haters, trolls from all corners of the world, the internet patrol brigade, the clever, the gormless , the `tards, etc.
There has been blog after blog about this. But the best of them all, the one that made me think all the aggravation is/was worthwhile, is the ED entry “Trent_Reznor #Twitter_crap“. One single blog couldnt have captured and delivered what ED did. Oh how I laughed! Kinda icing on the cake.
Good thing that more people are being made aware of this and starting to see that the once cool guy that made some pretty cool tunes nowadays is nothing more than a tantrum throwing, irresponsible, self-absorbed twat who happens to not know the difference between right and wrong.
Another good thing that is going to come out of this now is that Reznor`s lynch-mob on Twitter, who go around harassing people and abusing of the Report Spam system will have a rude awakening. And let it be known now that Reznor himself is putting pressure on Twitter to suspend/ban aka silence/censor anyone who dares speaks about him or his babybride in a non brown nose capacity. Reznor`s babybride also happens to use “fake” accounts to troll when not having a dig at plump people herself at her Twitter page.
To conclude this I want to address those who ask me what I`m getting out of it all. My answer is: a headache. I refused to be interviewed, I havent “sold” the story, I`m NOT setting up a business nor am I “cashing in” on any of this in any shape or form. Perhaps I should
An Old Sage Once Said: “You know what sucks?”
Plump Fox Reply: “Who is sucking now?”
I had no intention of blogging again about His Holiness Trent Reznor but since his last tweet directing his minions to his latest rant at NIN.com where he pours his heart (?) out, sitting trolls & cyber bullies for giving up his “social networking experiment“, I feel I must say something.
It is unfortunate that His Holiness handles his PR himself and happens to suffer from “foot in mouth” syndrome. In his latest rant he plays the victim (butthurt) at first but not long after goes on to offend a large proportion of his own fans by saying and I quote “mainly by unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands. Kind of like a role-playing game where people NOBODY will fuck make up stories about their incredible sexual encounters with people they WISH they could fuck.” Well, it might have escaped him but there are LOTS of BEAUTIFUL and very successful plump people in this world and as you will see from the screen shots I`m going to post here, a lot of his own fans are plump females who do fantasize about him and others. Doh! #1 Also, lets be honest here, Reznor is pretty plump himself! Doh! #2
Then his rant progresses into a ill advised “piece of advice” to his fans that and I quote: “Cutter’s tip for my friends there: remember to cut along the length of vein, not across. Bigger payoff.” I`m sure he failed to see the consequences of that friendly tip. Baring in mind a large number of his most loyal fans are troubled people (no offence intended here) who were first attracted to Reznor and his music because it spoke about these said troubles and troubled feeling, giving them “tips” on how to best commit suicide is utterly reproacheacble. Doh! #3
That rant was then a double edge sword: he got the “love” aka brown nosing he so desperately craves for from his adoring fans BUT it also angered many who saw through him. As I see it, more and more people are starting to wake up to the fact that he isnt G-d`s gift to wo/menkind and that he is a very flawed human being (like the rest of us). People are starting to speak out against his playground bullying antics.
Yes he was a great musician but that does not entitle him to alienate his “plump” fans, does not entitle him to bully and victimise those who stand up to his bs nor does it entitle him to entice a hand-full of blindly devoted/loyal fanatics to take revenge on those who disagree with him.
Reznor`s male insecurity, mid-life crises, emotional/mental breakdown and foot-in-mouth syndrome are destroying his once cool guy image and good reputation. And he is doing it all himself. Doh! #4
TR comments backfire on him
Backlash goes on
Screen Shot from NIN.com
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and it goes on....
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An old sage once said: “You know what else sucks?”
Reply : “…sucks that it aint over until the fat bird sings”
HA!
Attack on “plump” fans & suicide tips from Trent Reznor HERE
Last.fm is a sinking ship and the first rats have just announced they are bailing out. In their blog they say all is well. It`s just time to move on. Yeah right! That is why The Guardian Tech reports they “struggled to generate significant revenue”.
This comes after weeks of turmoil with many changes within the site such as more advertisement, redesign of the music player, pushing their paid subscription (which, as a former subscriber, I can guarantee is a waste of money), etc.
I find the timing for this announcement of particular relevance. Wasnt Last.fm just a few weeks ago being accused of passing on user details such as IP to RIAA? Wasnt Last.fm not facing a user scrobbling strike due to charging for the radio, not inc.UK,USA and Germany, infuriating and rightly so users from other countries? Wasnt Last.fm defending and protecting their Neo-Nazi forums, hiding behind “freedom of speech” while silencing with threats and bans anyone who dared stood up to them?
The list of mistakes, lies, bans is almost endless. From pissed off artists to disgusted users, Last.fm is no doubt a sinking ship and you are forgiven for abandoning it before it sinks for good.
Told you so!
Let me add something (on top of all that has been said) to this whole name & flame campaign by Mr.Reznor and also this fund raising for Eric business.
His Holiness isnt as holy as he leads people to believe and this Eric thing, although money has been raised for him, is nothing but a PR stunt.
I ask you this: if Reznor was the philanthropic kind of person, why did he not help an ex-girlfriend a few years back when she was diagnosed with cancer and had no insurance? Why did he pick Eric over 1000s of other people in need & other worthy causes? Is it because his new fling AKA Mariqueen is Philipino like Eric? Has it been due to Qs (a talentless ladyboy lookalike known to have shagged* a large proportion of LA`s male population) request that TR embarked on this crusade? Also consider this: Is his eractic, irrational behaviour due to Qs bad influence? And before his defence lawyers (aka fanatics)come in all guns blazing, yes he did know as the person in question still has links via mutual friends.
This is the same girlfriend our “champion, hero & saviour” claimed to love so and wrote “Hurt”! Or was it “Something I can never have”?
Do note that all I have said is my understanding of the situation based on information provided & duly verified.
Anyway, here is the story in Reznors own words
I will now present you some of the evidence. Do note I have blanket out email addresses & certain info. This is to avoid “doing a reznor” & unleashing his demented, angry fans on individuals.
From:AM (septgirl@*************.com)
Sent:04 June 2009 10:27:48
To:me@************l.com
Hi Andrea,I’m writing to say kudos (again) for taking on Trent Reznor & questioning his ‘charitable efforts’ in his crusade to raise funds for Eric De La Cruz’s heart transplant. I certainly feel for the poor guy but highly doubt that Trent even knows this person and has only decided to jump on the charity bandwagon to (a) help restore his tarnished image & do damage control after all the twitter backlash and (b) because his fiancee harangued him into it since the sick bloke is a fellow Filipino. Trust me, Trent is anything but charitable and rarely, if ever, publicly supports a cause…perhaps the one exception being PETA.
I’m not sure if you even know just how accurately you hit the nail on the head. It was awesome to read your updates calling bullshit on Trent and it totally resonated with me since I have a personal history with him that completely substantiates your take on all this…that’s why I felt compelled to write to you.
Without going into too many sordid details, I knew Trent years ago — before he morphed into Henry Rollins and grew an ego the size of Mt. Everest. We had a very solid relationship and he was someone that I truly respected. Even in the early days, he had an undeniable talent that I knew would take him far. That said, I never expected him to become an uber famous rock/goth god and when that happened (mid 90′s) we sort of lost touch. Several years later, I was diagnosed with cancer and unfortunately had no health insurance at the time. Thank god for my amazing group of friends and colleagues (from years of working in the record biz), many of whom did benefit shows to help raise $$ for my treatment. During this incredibly difficult time, I didn’t hear one word from Trent. He knew of my situation since we had mutual friends and I stayed in touch with his manager but never once did he reach out to express his concern or sympathy. So you can imagine my shock when I read about Trent’s crusade to save Eric De La Cruz…he does nothing to help out an old friend in need yet embarks on a die hard mission to save a complete stranger?!! Seems questionable and highly disingenuous.
So that’s the nutshell version of my story. I haven’t told many people since I’m a relatively private person (well, I was until TR outed me a few years ago in an interview but I won’t get into that) and also don’t want to add to the twitter shit storm that Trent seems to be embroiled in. So I’d really appreciate keeping this off the record — it’s not something I’m particularly comfortable talking about (esp. in public forums or on blogs) — I just felt like sharing it with you since I found your insight quite remarkable.Thanks for letting me vent & for keeping things real on twitter. You seem like a tireless supporter of many worthy causes so best of luck fighting the good fight & hope all your efforts help to bring about some positive change in the world.
Looking forward to following your updates…take care,
AM
Note to AM- I am very sorry to have blogged this. I feel like I owe it to the world & NIN fans the truth about Reznor. Also, I am being bombarded by his fans with hate mail calling me a liar. I did NOT lie about anything I said about Reznor.
Note- Do click on links
Note/Disclaimer- All I have said/printed is based on information provived by various sources. If you are still upset or pissy with me please check this out!
*Not verified photograph
This is a delicate subject. Maybe one that I, little Miss Insensitive, shouldn’t be allowed to write about. But here I am, writing about suicide and euthanasia. Before I carry on I would like to apologize to the politically correct brigade, the moralists, theists, the sensitive, the naive, etc. This is my opinion and views on the matter and right or wrong I am entitled to them. So here it goes: I am pro choice, pro suicide and pro euthanasia.
I didn’t just wake up one day thinking about these issues. I have thought about them for long and hard but today I read, and above all I listened to what an acquaintance of mine had to say about her debilitating, painful, terminal illness SMA (spinal muscular atrophy)
I agree with her that in her case like in the case of all those who have such a debilitating illnesses, euthanasia should be allowed. I believe if a person is in a perfectly sound state of mind they should be allowed such wish to be put in a legal document and have their final wish carried out by a specially trained nurse/doctor at a secure and safe place. I also think that apart from trained nurses/doctors, members of the immediate family or close circle of friends, if in total agreement and having gone through the necessary training and counseling should also be allowed to do it. I mean, I would have thought that most people would rather die in their own homes than in a sterile clinic/hospital and that a fair few would rather have a relative or close friend be the one to help them in their last and final step.
There should be some strict regulations in place though. I mean, those who are terminal should be protected from the unscrupulous and the down right evil people of this world who would, without a shadow of a doubt try and take advantage of the situation. We would need to make sure that it was 100% the wish of the dying person first of all and that they were of sound mind at the time of writing their wishes. Also, there should be severe punishment to those who are found performing unwanted or unrequited euthanasia. Damn, if it’s unwanted/unrequited it’s nothing more than murder.
As for regulations and punishment of those who unlawfully perform euthanasia, this should be the only time the state should have any say in the matter. I strongly believe that it should be left to doctors, the patient and the family to decide on when and how. If the state is allowed to interfere with this, there is a distinct possibility that some paper pushing fat cat at the top would “bonk off” a few people against their wishes just so he/she could meet targets and figures.
Now, as for suicide, euthanasia IS assisted suicide. I don’t see much difference between the two. Just because someone is fit and healthy from the perspective of those looking in it doesn’t mean to say that that person is fit and healthy. That is the main problem and lack of understanding surrounding mental health issues. Most people still don’t understand that just because they can’t see an illness (no broken bones, heart attacks etc) that the sufferer of a mental illness is just selfish for committing suicide. Sometimes the mental pain, the anguish the torture is so much, so unbearable that there is no other way out.
Sure, it is sad to see/hear of suicide but it is equally as sad in the case of euthanasia. One could actually argue that euthanasia is a cop-out (I don’t think it is but the argument IS valid).
In the case of my acquaintance, her body is “broken”. In my case (for argument sake) my mind/spirit are “broken”. If/when her body hurts, drugs can easy that pain. Morphine is almost immediate relief. If/when my mind causes me unbearable pain and suffering there are no drugs to easy that unless one takes anti-depressants or anti-psychotics for weeks/months on end. She is a prisoner of her body. I am a prisoner of my mind. Who suffers more? Who has more rights to live or die?
I know I have now opened a new can of worms: if a person has mental health issues, is that person in their right mind to decide if suicide is their best option? Isn’t the feeling of loss, emptiness and ultimately suicide part and parcel of many common mental illnesses? Who can guarantee that a person with a terminal illness such as SMA, at the time of writing their final wishes isn’t depressed? I suppose these are the questions which make this an almost impossible issue to address and legislate.
Updated March 09 – I now believe the “provisional green light”, which means that a Swiss physician would be ready to write the prescription for the lethal drug, should be made available to those who want it. That alone should reduce the number of suicides because simply knowing that there is an emergency exit available, should they need it, is so comforting that they have a good chance of living until their life’s natural end
* I would like to thank my acquaintance, who shall remain unnamed, for being so open and brave.
** To find out more about SMA got to http://www.myspace.com/worldofsmartys
***Article posted at health.demo-research.com
This is the beginning of what was to become a major saga…. Acquaint yourselves with what I describe as must read blogs on how a celeb use/abuse of power and how they manipulate media/fans. The cyber bullying & slagging off anyone who doesnt happen to have a brown nose. A step by step of how a once “cool guy” became allianated & out of touch with everyday normal folk and the predictable downward spiral …
Enough bs from you Mr!
The following 3 blogs are by Fred Garrett
This is the first & original blog
(UPDATED!) Trent Reznor aka @trent_reznor and his power…)
Then our “hero” went off on one again and this time his target was me
Trent Reznor aka @trent_reznor goes on the attack again this time AndreaUrbanFox
Following his cyber bullying winning streak, our “hero” decides to con fans out of backstage passes, then more cyber bullying and then Fred simply had enough of this “champ`s” bullshit and delivered a decisive blow with the following blog:
Follow up story of Trent Reznor aka @trent_reznor and his power
Following the masses of hate mail/comments from demented fans, Fred posted this:
Trent Reznor, #Eric and his fan base not reading what I wrote
And this story is far from over…….Our overweight, sweaty incoherant “champ” will no doubt provide us with lots more to blog about. Watch this space……
Andrea 
Demented Fuk
