adventures of dating in LA, correction: TRYING to date

 JESSiCAKE  : Haha. Okayyyy
* melissa: Just sent this to __________: Did u go on some awful match.com date + are now too traumatized to meet little old me?
 JESSiCAKE  : Awwwwww!!!!!
 JESSiCAKE  : Hahahahaha
* melissa: :D
 JESSiCAKE  : That oughtta push him into planning to meet u IN PERSON again sooner!
* melissa: One would think- he goes "you tell me. How do we make this happen"
* melissa: He just asked me if I'm a spooner, hahahha
 JESSiCAKE  : Oh god!! Now he's like throwing the ball back in your court again!
 JESSiCAKE  : He needs to step his game up!
* melissa: Can you tell him that
 JESSiCAKE  : And then jumping to the spooning! Hahaha
 JESSiCAKE  : He hasn't even asked u on a date! And he wants to know if u wanna be spooned!
 JESSiCAKE  : I'm confused about him! Haha
* melissa: HahahahhahahahahhHahahHAHAHA
* melissa: He just called me little spooner
 JESSiCAKE  : Aaaaahahahaha
* melissa: I wanna watch sex and the city
* melissa: My sis took all my dvds with her :(
* melissa: Correction: he called me little spoon
 JESSiCAKE  : I'm watching them on demand!!!! It just happen to be when she's meeting Burgerrr!!! Hahaha
* melissa: Even better
* melissa: I don't have on demandddddd >:O
 JESSiCAKE  : Is that even supposed to be found "cute"
 JESSiCAKE  : It might have been if he actually spooned u!
 JESSiCAKE  : So weird....
* melissa: Hahah I knowww I think I should be the worried one here jeeeez
 JESSiCAKE  : Hahaha
* melissa: Ok so last thing, I said "I am a cuddler." He said "perfect" I said "ill believe it when I see it"
 JESSiCAKE  : Ohhhhh perfect!
* melissa: I just lurked his fb a little he looks like a flirter. I gotta watch this one-- I always love like its never hurt, fall for the spontaneous unpredictable pricks
* melissa: Nooo more, I vow to be the one to come out laughing. My new philosophy
 JESSiCAKE  : Yessss! I'm with you!
 JESSiCAKE  : Soooo with u on that new philosophy
* melissa: Good. We'll show these boys who's bossy. Um ok sorry I keep blowin you up with texts, he just said "you're the one who's so busy with guys nights"
* melissa: So I said, "no no. U just tell me when/what/where"
 JESSiCAKE  : Guys nights????
 JESSiCAKE  : What's that mean!!??
 JESSiCAKE  : Good! He needs a lil pushy one I guess
* melissa: Well I told him I was hanging with the guys this weekend, but that's only cause he's too pussy to ask me out !!!
* melissa: Ok ew
* melissa: He said "Spooning usually takes place at home ;)"
* melissa: What does he think this is, we're not at that point yet
* melissa: What do I sayyy to that
 JESSiCAKE  : Wow!
 JESSiCAKE  : First he doesn't make any moves , now he's skipping it all!
 JESSiCAKE  : I don't even know!!!!!
 JESSiCAKE  : What are u going to say back to that?
* melissa: Hahahah exactlyyy
* melissa: I don't know what to even say to that !
* melissa: Dear james milner, can we make sure we can stand being in a room physically together, before we commit to spoons ?
* melissa: That's a little harsh ?
 JESSiCAKE  : Hahahahahahahahaha
* melissa: Help what doo I sayyy
* melissa: Hahah firs he doesn't make any moves, then he decides to skip them all
* melissa: That was too good a line to pass up I said: "I like how you slyly skipped all the first moves of asking me out and went straight to spooning, very cute"
 JESSiCAKE  : Perrrrrrrfect!
 JESSiCAKE  : Haha
 JESSiCAKE  : There nothing else to really say!
 JESSiCAKE  : He really did!
 JESSiCAKE  : he can't ask to see u or meet up, but he can blutly ask if u spoon!
 JESSiCAKE  : Come on! Haha
* melissa: Jeeezus
* melissa: I wanna ask him if he signed up for match.com for some cheap hookups
 JESSiCAKE  : Nooooooo
 JESSiCAKE  : Haha
* melissa: That's rude tho I don't wanna be offensive
 JESSiCAKE  : U can't do that!
* melissa: He goes: "not so sly huh"
 JESSiCAKE  : Like maybe in person a lil sarcastic, but nooooo
* melissa: Yeah he has to know THE humor
* melissa: By THE humor I mean me u tal humor
 JESSiCAKE  : Well YA!
 JESSiCAKE  : But he just mighttttt not know IT too well just yet
* melissa: Hmm. He's a tough case
 JESSiCAKE  : Must be broken in!
* melissa: Yep

* melissa: Melissa lauren taylor loves like its never hurt
Jennifer Nicole: Jennifer nicole brich has a yearning in her heart & soul...one that she can feel in her bones...to travel the world, far and wide.
* melissa: Melissa lauren taylor wants to know what its like to time travel
Jennifer Nicole: jennifer nicole brich, like melissa taylor believes she was born in the wrong decade
Jennifer Nicole: I would like to time travel too.
Jennifer Nicole: Women were once glamorous and regal. Not to say some aren't now. But women were ladies. They dressed like them & acted like them. They were dipped in jewels and beautiful clothing.
Jennifer Nicole: They attended dances and powdered their noses in powder rooms and had these terrific voices.
Jennifer Nicole: Old hollywood glamour you know.
* melissa: Ahhhh sounds beautific
* melissa: Sounds like u and me jenny
* melissa: I think I have a pretty decent vocal box- I used to take voice lessons ya know
Jennifer Nicole: I feel like there was this abundace of glamour and romance and passion! Sounds soo exciting.
* melissa: Hahah
Jennifer Nicole: Haha
* melissa: The romance. The passion it all sounds too good
Jennifer Nicole: Well I mean when u watch an old movie there voices just sound different.
Jennifer Nicole: Speaking voices.
* melissa: I had a guy just skip all the first moves of asking me out, and asked me to spoon
* melissa: Yeah they're deep and full
Jennifer Nicole: What?!!! Hahaha
* melissa: They are filled with confidence and knowing
Jennifer Nicole: Exactly!
Jennifer Nicole: Precisely!
* melissa: I'm not kidding about the aforementioned male invitation
Jennifer Nicole: Explain?
* melissa: Its a joke. Since when is it okay to ask a girl to spoon before you've even seen her face to face, or even shaken my hand???
Jennifer Nicole: Who does that?!
* melissa: That guy I met on match.com
Jennifer Nicole: So he was joking or not?
* melissa: We've been talking forever
* melissa: Not a joke, I mean its all witty banter
* melissa: But still
* melissa: He for some reason can't grow the balls to ask me out
* melissa: But he can ask me if I'm a spooner
Jennifer Nicole: Well he's on a dating website! What does he think he's doing there?!
* melissa: There's so much being left out of the discourse
Jennifer Nicole: How awful!
Jennifer Nicole: Well don't u go asking him out. Check mate. His move.
* melissa: Oh I'm not.
* melissa: I told him: "I like how you slyly skipped all the first moves of asking me out and went straight to spooning, very cute"
* melissa: how does one expect a female to woon when all u can say wittily is that I'm a "little spoon"
Jennifer Nicole: And if you had accepted his invitation would he get ur address and head on over? Haha
* melissa: Riddle me that
* melissa: Seriouslyyy !!!????
Jennifer Nicole: Soo how do u feel about spooning?
* melissa: This is great material, I gotta blog about it
* melissa: I asked, "well it depends, am I the one being spooned or spooning"
Jennifer Nicole: Its a significant question for me to ask a female I consider courting. I need to know ur big on spooning.
* melissa: And then he called me LITTLE SPOON
Jennifer Nicole: Hmmm u should ask how he feels about sporking:D
Jennifer Nicole: Maybe he's a big fan of silverware
* melissa: Hahahha
Jennifer Nicole: Melissa lauren taylor aka LITTLE SPOON

Around The Corner.

"the greatest men are the most alone"

NEW YORK CITY—2001.
© Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos


PARIS—Plaza Athéné, 2005.
© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos


GERALDTON, Western Australia—Highway 1, 2006.
© Trent Parke / Magnum Photos

Late Night Card Writing

= new inspiration, band of horses, back hurt.

I am feeling more and more neutral.

Is it backwards to ask: IS this what you'd call not writing each other off?

All is well.. sleepyhead time.

Sound Healing

Ah. Just got back into LA from DC. Ursula's 23rd birthday was spent with lots of laughs, love, chop't, pushing, sleeping, drinking, and learning. It's been a very long time since I have posted anything here... I seem to always fall into these dry spells. Lack of creativity, lack of inspiration, lack of heart? I wouldn't rule those reasons out. It has been a WHIRLWIND of a summer. We lost our King of Pop Michael Jackson, our poster child of the 70's Miss Farrah Fawcett (on the same day- June 25th!), and as of August 28, 2009 we lost the beloved "Michael Jordan of living" Adam Michael Goldstein pfa DJAM.

This summer has seen surely seen it's darker days- notably my car accident July 16. That one really threw me out there, further than I think I consciously am able to comprehend. However it was very well cured in the following days of July and most of August. Amidst the changes being faced due to the loss of my first bought car, my parents decided they were going to sell our home and move across the country. Still, I was pretty well captivated by the delights of summer adventures. I was happy. Not sure what happened exactly- I guess it's not really too important. I've realized so much, and it feels good to be humbled back into myself. I think I've lost some ground through all these changes and what I thought was something special. I have so many life lessons to learn- and there's never a dull moment. My heart and body have made it thus far, what other option do I have than to continue being me?.. I have a lot of heart, meaning, and depth- I am good to the people I love, I work hard, and my actions are strong. Life is too short, you've either gotta go big or go home.

So approaching new beginnings, my parents have sold our home- and are moving to Missouri so that my mom can fulfill her desire to complete her education. My stepdad, sister, Kevin, Godiva and Boo (who is the newest addition to our family!) will all be departing LA sometime in October/November. As for me, I have fully moved over to the West Side, with my best friend, which is literally a dream come true. I suppose to sum up my documentation of the summer, it has more or less forced me to see with new eyes. It's been interesting, and maybe a little rough for a second... but all in all I believe I've been in the right place in order to grow and move forward on my life's path. I'll part on the note of positivity by saying I am excited for yet another chapter. I think I'm moving into a time of calm, equanimity, and peace. I will take it.

Today

Today is the greatest
Day I ve ever kown
Cant live for tomorrow
Tomorrows much too long
I burn my eyes out
Before I get out

I wanted more
Than life could ever grant
Bored by the chore
Of saving face

Today is the greatest
Day I have ever known
Cant wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
Ill tear my heart out
Before I get out

Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
Ive tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings

Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
That I have ever known

I want to turn you on
I want to turn you round
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you

Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever known

The universe is saying something to me, and I can't see quite clearly through the frustrated confusion--but more than that I can't feel anything past the butterflies. I can't utter a bad note through a smile, I can't even gear towards the negative when I feel like my heart is lightened. Hopeful, imaginative, graced. I cannot marginalize my feelings with rationality, or sum it up, it's undeniably been swirling on for longer than you or I could possibly comprehend. I think that when you allow yourself the dignity of trusting your insides that's when the little things all seem to make sense. I'm so empowered and happiness doesn't do justice to this consciousness.. I plan on continuing to listen, absolutely.

GUESS WHO GOT ADDED TO COACHELLA'S LINEUP...

WITH 13 DAYS TO GO, One of Dim Mak's newest artists FELIX CARTAL just got added to the COACHELLA 2009 Lineup !

Felix's addition marks the fourth Dim Mak artist appearing on the 2009 lineup, and wraps up the weekend with a strong Dim Mak presence..

Friday - Steve Aoki

Saturday - MSTRKRFT & THE BLOODY BEETROOTS

SUNDAY - FELIX CARTAL

Not to mention the fact that Felix's appearance will blow minds, surely making Sunday a day NOT TO MISS!

http://www.myspace.com/felixcartal

http://felixcartal.com/






Yes? YES.

See you all in the desert..........................

Adventures of Little Bo Peep and Yours Truly

Great week, great weekend. Friday stayed in and re-read Night by Elie Weisel (such an IMPORTANT and powerful book), Saturday celebrated Tahlia's 22nd birthday with a super special guest (Mr. Dan Dempsey aka highschool sweeeeetheart), and Sunday Whaler's in Venice, Obrien's for beers, random detour through SM for photo op., dinner with the familia... pretty well rounded, I'd say... my mom even told me that I am a "piece of work" (haha)! I also found out that when I was three I had a beloved pet cat (which I think I somewhat remember ?) and I saw it run into the street and get hit, then filled with sorrow turned and said, "But I won't have a kitty anymore...."

Uhhhm, anyway my dear lovelies Ursula and Tahlia are leaving me for Europe in a week.. which is shitty for two reasons, A. I will not be able to enjoy their company and B. I was really hoping to go........, but work requires my presence in LA. So I will survive and when they get back, COACHELLAAA ---- and we are possibly going to drive up in Ursula's grandmas van !! Party van ? We may even be needing it in lieu of a hotel room. Our current plan is to just get down there and figure it out, three fun girls... I'm thinking it's not gonna be super tough to conjure some accommodations. I am so excited for this trip: pool parties, camping, three days of MUSIC, bikinis, the desert, drinks, laughs, cuute boooys... and who knows what other fun randomness we will get ourselves into. MSTRKRFT's performance is supposed to be suuuuper special.. Can't wait to hear more on this.

Alright so that's my weekend, it's all in all been a wonderful week ! Life has been so pleasant lately, super busy (which I prefer), but everything just seems to be in place. Here's some photos for my fellow clairvoyant communicators:

MSTRKRFT performs on Jimmy Kimmel

AMAZING. "And never before, have I ever seen anyone check their text messages during a song.... Congratulations on setting a new (laughs)... and not just once but REPEATEDLY.."



Their album 'Fist of God' is available now on iTunes, and will be in stores 3/24.

"Obama actually walks the walk."

As a little tribute to Barack, and his West Coast venture(which, btw has made driving in LA today a nightmare!) to appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", here is a NY Times Opinion piece by Frank Rich that I found interesting, even if it is pretty "loaded". And as Barack said himself during the interview, "Everybody's got an opinion. But that's part of what makes for a democracy." With that, here's the article:



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15rich.html

Op-Ed Columnist
The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off

By FRANK RICH
Published: March 14, 2009

"SOMEDAY we’ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation. The subject — which Bush hyped as “one of the most profound of our time” — was stem cells. For a presidency in thrall to a thriving religious right (and a presidency incapable of multi-tasking), nothing, not even terrorism, could be more urgent.

When Barack Obama ended the Bush stem-cell policy last week, there were no such overheated theatrics. No oversold prime-time address. No hysteria from politicians, the news media or the public. The family-values dinosaurs that once stalked the earth — Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Reed — are now either dead, retired or disgraced. Their less-famous successors pumped out their pro forma e-mail blasts, but to little avail. The Republican National Committee said nothing whatsoever about Obama’s reversal of Bush stem-cell policy. That’s quite a contrast to 2006, when the party’s wild and crazy (and perhaps transitory) new chairman, Michael Steele, likened embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments during his failed Senate campaign.

What has happened between 2001 and 2009 to so radically change the cultural climate? Here, at last, is one piece of good news in our global economic meltdown: Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years. Culture wars are a luxury the country — the G.O.P. included — can no longer afford.

Not only was Obama’s stem-cell decree an anticlimactic blip in the news, but so was his earlier reversal of Bush restrictions on the use of federal money by organizations offering abortions overseas. When the administration tardily ends “don’t ask, don’t tell,” you can bet that this action, too, will be greeted by more yawns than howls.

Once again, both the president and the country are following New Deal-era precedent. In the 1920s boom, the reigning moral crusade was Prohibition, and it packed so much political muscle that F.D.R. didn’t oppose it. The Anti-Saloon League was the Moral Majority of its day, the vanguard of a powerful fundamentalist movement that pushed anti-evolution legislation as vehemently as it did its war on booze. (The Scopes “monkey trial” was in 1925.) But the political standing of this crowd crashed along with the stock market. Roosevelt shrewdly came down on the side of “the wets” in his presidential campaign, leaving Hoover to drown with “the dries.”

Much as Obama repealed the Bush restrictions on abortion and stem-cell research shortly after pushing through his stimulus package, so F.D.R. jump-started the repeal of Prohibition by asking Congress to legalize beer and wine just days after his March 1933 inauguration and declaration of a bank holiday. As Michael A. Lerner writes in his fascinating 2007 book “Dry Manhattan,” Roosevelt’s stance reassured many Americans that they would have a president “who not only cared about their economic well-being” but who also understood their desire to be liberated from “the intrusion of the state into their private lives.” Having lost plenty in the Depression, the public did not want to surrender any more freedoms to the noisy minority that had shut down the nation’s saloons.

In our own hard times, the former moral “majority” has been downsized to more of a minority than ever. Polling shows that nearly 60 percent of Americans agree with ending Bush restrictions on stem-cell research (a Washington Post/ABC News survey in January); that 55 percent endorse either gay civil unions or same-sex marriage (Newsweek, December 2008); and that 75 percent believe openly gay Americans should serve in the military (Post/ABC, July 2008). Even the old indecency wars have subsided. When a federal court last year struck down the F.C.C. fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Super Bowl, few Americans either noticed or cared about the latest twist in what had once been a national cause célèbre.

It’s not hard to see why Eric Cantor, the conservative House firebrand who is vehemently opposed to stem-cell research, was disinclined to linger on the subject when asked about it on CNN last Sunday. He instead accused the White House of acting on stem cells as a ploy to distract from the economy. “Let’s take care of business first,” he said. “People are out of jobs.” (On this, he’s joining us late, but better late than never.)

Even were the public still in the mood for fiery invective about family values, the G.O.P. has long since lost any authority to lead the charge. The current Democratic president and his family are exemplars of precisely the Eisenhower-era squareness — albeit refurbished by feminism — that the Republicans often preached but rarely practiced. Obama actually walks the walk. As the former Bush speechwriter David Frum recently wrote, the new president is an “apparently devoted husband and father” whose worst vice is “an occasional cigarette.”

Frum was contrasting Obama to his own party’s star attraction, Rush Limbaugh, whose “history of drug dependency” and “tangled marital history” make him “a walking stereotype of self-indulgence.” Indeed, the two top candidates for leader of the post-Bush G.O.P, Rush and Newt, have six marriages between them. The party that once declared war on unmarried welfare moms, homosexual “recruiters” and Bill Clinton’s private life has been rebranded by Mark Foley, Larry Craig, David Vitter and the irrepressible Palins. Even before the economy tanked, Americans had more faith in medical researchers using discarded embryos to battle Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s than in Washington politicians making ad hoc medical decisions for Terri Schiavo.

What’s been revealing about watching conservatives debate their fate since their Election Day Waterloo is how, the occasional Frum excepted, so many of them don’t want to confront the obsolescence of culture wars as a political crutch. They’d rather, like Cantor, just change the subject — much as they avoid talking about Bush and avoid reckoning with the doomed demographics of the G.O.P.’s old white male base. To recognize all these failings would be to confront why a once-national party can now be tucked into the Bible Belt.

The religious right is even more in denial than the Republicans. When Obama nominated Kathleen Sebelius, the Roman Catholic Kansas governor who supports abortion rights, as his secretary of health and human services, Tony Perkins, the leader of the Family Research Council, became nearly as apoplectic as the other Tony Perkins playing Norman Bates. “If Republicans won’t take a stand now, when will they?” the godly Perkins thundered online. But Congressional Republicans ignored him, sending out (at most) tepid press releases of complaint, much as they did in response to Obama’s stem-cell order. The two antiabortion Kansas Republicans in the Senate, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both endorsed Sebelius.

Perkins is now praying that economic failure will be a stimulus for his family-values business. “As the economy goes downward,” he has theorized, “I think people are going to be driven to religion.” Wrong again. The latest American Religious Identification Survey, published last week, found that most faiths have lost ground since 1990 and that the fastest-growing religious choice is “None,” up from 8 percent to 15 percent (which makes it larger than all denominations except Roman Catholics and Baptists). Another highly regarded poll, the General Social Survey, had an even more startling finding in its preliminary 2008 data released this month: Twice as many Americans have a “great deal” of confidence in the scientific community as do in organized religion. How the almighty has fallen: organized religion is in a dead heat with banks and financial institutions on the confidence scale.

This, too, is a replay of the Great Depression. “One might have expected that in such a crisis great numbers of these people would have turned to the consolations of and inspirations of religion,” wrote Frederick Lewis Allen in “Since Yesterday,” his history of the 1930s published in 1940. But that did not happen: “The long slow retreat of the churches into less and less significance in the life of the country, and even in the lives of the majority of their members, continued almost unabated.”

The new American faith, Allen wrote, was the “secular religion of social consciousness.” It took the form of campaigns for economic and social justice — as exemplified by the New Deal and those movements that challenged it from both the left and the right. It’s too early in our crisis and too early in the new administration to know whether this decade will so closely replicate the 1930s, but so far Obama has far more moral authority than any religious leader in America with the possible exception of his sometime ally, the Rev. Rick Warren.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return. But after the humiliations of the Scopes trial and the repeal of Prohibition, it did take a good four decades for the religious right to begin its comeback in the 1970s. In our tough times, when any happy news can be counted as a miracle, a 40-year exodus for these ayatollahs can pass for an answer to America’s prayers."

Danny, I don't think I found out how you survived 25 years......

Should we do this all over again? Seeing as how I managed to lose all of my belongings, smash my finger in a car door, and apparently made a circus of a ride home... I think a re-do is appropriate. BUT, for a reason different than the one you're imagining.... I think a re-do is appropriate to expand my horizons and see just how far I can push the crazy label.

Here are some party favors:

Nick and Hillary, again...

Happy Birthday to the most important person to ever walk into my life, Nicolas J Evans Magee.

I know that if nothing else, I've had the great fortune of a great love and one that has transformed my life and my heart, my insides.. forever. No one has ever been so kind, so accepting and has understood me in the way that you did, Nick. Each of our moments were filled with mad love, the kind that makes you want to hide behind trees in planters, the kind that softly reassured that there was indeed a purpose of this place. Our relationship was truly that of 'can't live with each other, can't live without each other'. We were one in the same, absolute kindred spirits and I've no doubt we've been traveling together for a long time. I can't say I'm 'evolved' enough to really feel that you are with me all the time, though I do know that you are. It's kind of analogous to when you feel like a pain hurts so badly it will never leave, but deep down you know it will heal. I know that though you're physically not with me, you are with me on the most real plane of existence there is, deep down in that special place, forever. I'm still so pained by your physical absence, and if I allowed it, the pain could eat me alive, as it almost did. The thing that keeps me going is the gratitude I feel to have been given an experience like you. And the weight of pain that is accompanied with the knowing that you were limited here, has taught me invaluable lessons and has led me to visions of what true equanimity, freedom, & peace mean. I know that we are unlimited, boundless soul mates and your memory is a legend to all who knew you, truly. Happy Birthday sweetheart.







I wanna glide down over mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
Gonna free fall out into nothin
Gonna leave this world for a while

François Virot: Yes or No

This album is definitely nothing short of amazing. "In a nutshell, ...it’s the record of a sage, recorded by a kid." In terms of pure beauty capable of making you want to jump out of your skin it makes you feel so alive, Francois Virot has achieved my heart with this album. Every single song grabs at some part inside of me: a memory, a lung, found sadness, lost happiness. His simplistic use of a guitar & percussions layered with his crippling voice & voices is so refreshing, it reminds you that real music still exists in a world where even Bon Iver has opted (or to be politically correct I should say, has 'experimented' with) auto-tune. In it's entirety, 'Yes or No' is an emotionally gripping album that will surely adorn your spirit.




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Amy Winehouse drops off Coachella's Saturday lineup....

Is that shocking in any way though? I’m kinda laughing at the fact that the U.S. government will not issue her a work VISA, yet again! (they also wouldn’t allow her one to perform at the 2008 Grammy’s hence the satellite version performance). Due to “current legal issues”… aka assaulting a fan at a show in September…. she’ll be unable to ‘entertain’ us Saturday night. I suppose it’s not too much of a disappointment, as it was so expected that she’d either drop out or die before she made it to Coachella…. My biggest regret is that it would’ve been pretty rad to be ‘assaulted’ by her or at least see it, on a chance ‘run-in’. Would’ve made for great blogging material/drunk cocktail chatter. So now that the headlining spot’s opened up… it’ll be interesting to see who they try and reel in. My vote for the replacement act is goes to CocoRosie (who performed in 2007) but haven’t been in the U.S. since 07. Who’s on everyone elses wish list to replace Ms. Winehouse?