looks like I've got something to see on friday!

Beats seeing Ike Turner

Members of Hole! Oh no, not again!

Morrissey AND Redd Kross in the same building.

I'm in the wrong part of the country.

Suzanne, have fun at the show.

I'll probably be sitting a** at home because I'll have cut my beautiful long locks off that afternoon, thus ultimately (and predictably) regretting it and feeling too ugly to be seen in public.

My god, I haven't heard that name since 1991.

It is a very big letdown to hear about our man hanging out with members of Hole. maybe he'll start shooting heroin soon too! Wise up Moz, you are much better than that. First off, Hole sucks. This must mean that he finds their music tolerable. How disgusting! I hope Mozdid move out of LA because it is making him do stupid things. I used to love Redd Kross, but, what the hell is he hanging out with them for? What happened to his cool friends? Oh well, I guess that he is happy and that is all that matters. Just dont let them play on the new disc.

I thought that the only person "alive" that had heard of them was Rodney, of Rodney on the Roq infamy.

I could say what hole did they crawl out of, but the Courtney Love references are endless.

Well very nice, very nice, very nice, but maybe in the next world.

Hole album Celebrity Skin is so, so...phat! Oh, my god, gag me with a spoon, it is so, like, cool, dude! It is like, AWSOME! Like, people, come on, isn't she, Courtney so phat! And Morrissey and Hole babes are, oh my god, in LUUUVE, baby! Isn't it, like, really, really cute. Giggle, giggle. Our boy is doing good. I will scream and shout in extasy till midnite! Maybe next our Steven will hang out with those 80s hairy heavy metal cool dudes like Axl Rose and Slash. Heh! Good our boy is breaking from this evil Butt-F*** crowd. "She (Moz) sells", as Roxy Music used to sing. And price is bargain-basement!!! See him on MTV soon with Brandy and Britney Spears performing on the Ricky Martin B-day! Wooo, baby!...
Just paint me a Vulgar Picture, Moz!
God, Steven. I WANT Y TO READ THIS!

11PM at the Iron Cactus on 6th street.

ciao

Hey, when your DAD OWNS ELITE MODELING AGENCY, you'd better have celebs and the like show up at your gigs. Otherwise you're doing something very wrong!

'Nuff said.

Dear Jim,

We've been stroked before.

Sincerly,

Paul Reubens and George Michael

Moz is hanging with Hole alright. A bunch of ass HOLES!

"MORRISSEY and members of HOLE and REDD KROSS gathered at the DRAGONFLY CLUB in HOLLYWOOD last night (March 13) to watch The STROKES, the highly rated NEW YORK five-piece, play their first LOS ANGELES show."

Well, I read it as these celebrities going to the show and watching the Strokes, not all hanging out with each other. But if they were all hanging out to see the Strokes, what's the big deal?

So he has been hanging around with Hole of late..... Most feedback here has been negative- why cos Hole are dicks??? Get real , you want Morrissey to continue hanging with the same eccentrics, you want him to continue being off the wall? I don't, i hope he takes in what he sees , discovers a business sense and a direction. Too many times has he been on the brink, only to retreat to his mums ill, or cancel tours No he needs to see how the more brazen (Hole) approach the business.See how they have objectives, and discipline themselves for thier goals. really he hasn't got a clue and ripping off associates & band members ain't gonna get him anywhere. One more thing, it's lonely in a New city, new country - he needs to get out. And if Hole appear to be his current guardians then so be it. Who are we to choose his friends?

I was there and no one was "hanging out"-read more carefully, all it says was that these people attended. From what I saw, they either weren't acknowledging each other or else never even realized the others were there. God, you guys love to jump all over any little morsel you can, don't you? Here you've created some big controversy (is Hole good? Should Morrissey hang out with them? blah blah), when nothing of the sort happend.

after they booted John Cale out of the band.

At the south by southwest music conference, I had to babysit a panel on electronic gizmos. Half of the time spent on showing off the email feature on portable phones. Boring for me, but it caught my attention later as I was watching the band and happened to see some guy in front of me playing with his phone. I cringed when I read him typing, "this is the ugliest and most overrated band this past year."

Mr. internet cell phone soon disappeared from the crowd of mute witnesses.

A handful of people were getting into it, and I'm not sure how Geoff Travis, who was spotted floating around on the stairway getting an eagle eye view of the carnage that was taking place, but he shouldn't worry too much.

The crowd at the Iron Cactus was packed in. Many were left outside to peer in through the large windows and see the backs of the heads of what they were denied. It's not able to hold hundreds of people, so the ones that got in were the requisite group who has heard "all the buzz" and subsequently are too cool for the room.

The band did look like the leathered up incarnate of the Smiths. A guitar player with a dark head of coiffed hair and a hollow bodied electric playing riffs for a crooner flailing around the stage.

But it wasn't a pale imitation.

The band has some decent qualities: lots of energy, passion for what they do, good songs, but they are hindered by lacking that certain substance that makes them absolutely unique. The instrumental melody being the key factor. There are hundreds of bands doing the pulsating "indie" guitar rock sound, this one being more related to one of the 60's bands heard in the Animal House soundtrack than the others, but it's still undeniable.

At least if they are being compared to the Smiths, they aren't as annoying as Suede or sound exactly like the Smoking Popes. Their energy is more punk in nature. It could be argued that any Velvet Underground comparisons should be pointed more at the vocalist who does a Lou Reed quality of delivering his vocals off-center before he launches into his Morrissey croon for the chorus.

The $5 I spent on their low-fi 3 song CD was good money, as the melodies are interesting and energetic. It gives the listener a good chance to desiminate what is happening musically without having drunk people elbowing you in the gut to give their newly arrived friend a "ciao, baby!" kiss on the cheek.