My new best friend bart-calendar has a tag called "axl sucks," yet he remains my best source for urgent 80's metal news.* Two recent news items for those of you playing along at home:

Rikki Rocket arrested for rape. bart-calendar says, "At least he went for alliteration in his crime. Also, how could any woman say no to a member of Poison ( Read more... )

Jeff took me to see The Brian Jonestown Massacre last night at the Echoplex.

Courtesy of KCRW, we dined at Frankie's on Melrose. I had the best meatballs of my life, Jeff had some squid-ink pasta, and our cocktails were to die for ( Read more... )

Jeff and I saw the glam, sah-lam, kiii-ii-iiings of noise,

Poison

this weekend at the Gibson Amphitheater at Universal City Walk.

Finally, a theater is named after something cool, like a guitar, instead of cell phones or insurance or banks. Hallelujah ( Read more... )

I have a celebsighting tag in my livejournal, so I can keep track of things like touching Gilby Clarke's sweat, enjoying a Powerman 5000 show just feet away from Rob Zombie, and dining next to Val Kilmer. These are some of the top accomplishments of my life, and I'm not shy about my fangirlishness ( Read more... )

How do you feel about Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, The Gossip, Margaret Cho, and the Dresden Dolls? Do you love them? Me, too! And they're going to be touring together this summer. The tour is called True Colors and it's gay as hell.So went an email from Blakely. Last night, I went to the Gay as Hell tour and got high on life. People ( Read more... )

This was a week of two concerts, which can be a little trying on LaGizma, but she toughed it out. Ethan didn’t care about either, but I knew he would have a good time at both.

Tuesday was Rob Zombie on his Educated Horses. Now, I am the first to agree with TT that the Educated Horses song (“Foxy Foxy”) is pretty lame. The rest of the album is ( Read more... )

Dear Madeleine,

Dude, GNR (or that hodge podge of crap Axl claims is GNR in his manical weirdness) is fricking scheduling tour dates in Europe. But they haven't updated their website.

Oh, and I got in a fight with Tom at a bar like two weeks ago because he was INSISTING Chinese Democracy was coming out soon. I was like, dude, that is SO OLD. ( Read more... )

Def Leppard is cool. "Pour some sugar on me" ruled my life at the age of 8. What about "Let's Get Rocked?" We're talking some bad-ass music here, people ( Read more... )