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[threeplusfire]

I thought I was done being sick last night when I crawled into bed, but apparently not so. I think I ate something bad yesterday, or something that disagreed with me rather strenuously. Sitting outside at Opal's didn't help, and I had to cancel plans and go home early. Ugh.

SO Metallica paid $40,000 a month to a therapist who is not licensed as such and refers to himself as a "performance enhancement coach"? Did they really expect filming the process would make us like them more? This is rather strange, sad and excessive.

All in all, the article makes a good point that rock stars aren't paid to ever grow up.

Quote: "You wonder how these people will react to an extended sequence in ''Some Kind of Monster'' in which Ulrich sips Champagne and sells his collection of modern artwork at a Christie's auction for $13.4 million."

I think it is safe to say that all the fans Metallica tried to sue over Napster will rest easy in their dislike. I stopped listening to Metallica around then, in part because I was growing older and different, and in part because suing your damned fans when you're freaking millionaires is the most tacky, ugly thing thing to do.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

ALso in today's Times -- did you read about Chess City? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/international/europe/20russ.html

[rm.livejournal.com]

There an incredible novel in this:

" Mr. Ilyumzhinov's aides have also grown weary of reporters' questions about his claims that he has met extraterrestrial creatures, that he communicates with his constituents by telepathy and that he wants chess to become a world religion."

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I have never ever heard of this. Perhaps because my scholarly studies didn't do in-depth work on the post soviet republics. Damn. I have got to see this thing one day. I like how the photo has a wedding party in the foreground.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah and apparently everything else anywhere near it is utterly barren.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of Tajikistan, and the empty facades of government buildings that were never finished. Like a Star Wars set abandoned in the desert.