The Starbucks Incident

Yes, I am going to continue to bitch about Slash. I understand that Slash is not Jimi Hendrix but this might be the single biggest betrayal to my formative years since Metallica released everything they’ve released from Load on, and I need to mourn.

So. Some lady says that the following singers are all on Slash’s new solo album, How Could Taking My Cues from Carlos Santana Possibly Go Wrong? I have added my own thoughts because that’s what we do around here. Click to read more…

I know we’ve been talking about a movies a lot today; I dunno, it’s a cinemetal kinda day. Maybe ’cause the Oscraps were last night.

ANYWAY, are y’all familiar with the fine work of Mr. John Sayles? He got his started writing Roger Corman b-movies like Piranha (the Jaws rip-off) and Alligator (about a giant alligator eating people in the sewers of NYC) and still makes ends meet by doing re-write work on big budget crap (Bad Boys II, for one – but he also wrote a draft of Jurassic Park IV that was about, I shit you not, genetically modified super dinosaurs that the government uses to combat drug lords). But his true calling is being a director of little, intimate, talky indie movies – Lone Star, Sunshine State, and The Brother from Another Planet, amongst others, are all John Sayles joints.

Why am I telling you all this? Because apparently Sayles is going to write a new HBO series based on the life of Red Hot Chili Pepper front dude Anthony Kiedis.

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