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Bruce Springsteen

• Sep 27, 2010 from JohnnyX87(Johnny A)
  Life and career
  19491972: Early years
  Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived off South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver; his surname is Dutch for stepping stone. His mother, Adele Ann (ne Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
  Raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic school in Freehold Borough, where he was at odds with both the nuns and other students, even though much of his later music reflects a deep Catholic ethos and included many rock-influenced, traditional Irish-Catholic hymns.
  In ninth grade, he transferred to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit in there, either. Old teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar. He completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out.
  Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, he bought his first guitar for $18; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Springsteen a $60 Kent guitar, as he later memorialized in his song The Wish.
  In 1965, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become lead guitarist and subsequently the lead singer of The Castiles. The Castiles recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Brick Township and played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Marion Vinyard said that she believed the young Springsteen when he promised he would make it big.
  Called for induction when he was 19, Springsteen failed his physical examination and didnt serve in Vietnam. In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine in 1984, he said, When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I aint goin. He suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17, and this together with his crazy behaviour at induction and not taking the tests, was enough to get him a 4F.
  New Jersey beach towns such as Asbury Park, New Jersey inspired the themes of ordinary life in Bruce Springsteens music.
  In the late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen acquired the nickname The Boss during this period as when he played club gigs with a band he took on the task of collecting the bands nightly pay and distributing it amongst his bandmates. Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses. Lately, however, he seems to have accepted the nickname. Many recent concerts have audiences making up various signs on banners, license plates and so on saying, Boss Time. Previously he had the nickname Doctor. From 1969 through early 1971, Springsteen performed with Steel Mill, which also featured Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and Robbin Thompson. They went on to play the mid-Atlantic college circuit, and also briefly in California. In January 1970 well-known San Francisco Examiner music critic Philip Elwood gave Springsteen credibility in his glowing assessment of Steel Mill: I have never been so overwhelmed by totally unknown talent. Elwood went on to praise their cohesive musicality and, in particular, singled out Springsteen as a most impressive composer. During this time Springsteen also performed regularly at small clubs in Asbury Park and along the Jersey Shore, quickly gathering a cult following. Other acts followed over the next two years, as Springsteen sought to shape a unique and genuine musical and lyrical style: Dr Zoom & the Sonic Boom (earlyid 1971), Sundance Blues Band (mid 1971), and The Bruce Springsteen Band (mid 1971id 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the core of what would later become the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary additions such as horn sections, The Zoomettes (a group of female backing vocalists for Dr Zoom) and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres explored included blues, R&B, jazz, church music, early rockn'roll, and soul. His prolific songwriting ability, with more words in some individual songs than other artists had in whole albums, brought his skill to the attention of several people who were about to change his life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who, under Appels pressure,...

Top Chef: Ass in a SingaPoor Sling

• Sep 15, 2010 from celebritynews1 in Entertainment
  Top Chef: Ass in a SingaPoor Sling is a post from: Celebrity News | Celebrity Gossip | BuzzHollywood.com
  Top Chef: Ass in a SingaPoor Sling is a post from: Celebrity News | Celebrity Gossip | BuzzHollywood.com
  Hello again, friends! I'm back from my trip to Orlando, where I spent several days getting drunk by the pool with 400 other fat gay guys, which was tons of fun (no pun intended) and where I went to a dance that was ruined by the WORST DJ EVER. Ugh, you know a DJ sucks when their website claims they've "worked with" Madonna, but when my friend asked this douchebag to actually play some Madonna he was told no, because DJ Wikki-Wikki-Dipshit was going to have to shut the set down. Fourteen Rihanna songs (and five full minutes of dead air because this asshole was too busy having a smoke break outside to pay attention to his own gig) later, he finally did shut it down, much to our relief. If I sound kinda pissy about it, it's because I just fucking hate it when some narcissistic dickbag has to go and ruin things for me and everyone else...
  
  
  seriously. HATE.
  
  Oh well, sometimes life just hands us a big bag of pork rinds, and we don't know they're dogshit-flavored until we bite into them. Ew. In any case, it's time to talk some shit about it and then move on. Previously on Top Chef, PottyMouth did a wonderful job filling in for me, and we learned a few lessons...
  
  
  based on Space Dude's face, someone clearly needs to tell Space Chick about Secret (and I don't mean that stupid book)
  
  
  the size of MassholEd's manhood came up for discussion
  
  
  not since Jerry Falwell has praying on TV made someone look like such a dickface
  
  
  
  and it all slipped right through ChesTiffany's frozen-musselled fingers
  
  
  
  Yeah, that asinine little bit with JerseyMoobs thanking Jesus for saving him? Is just proof that Jesus isn't listening to anyone's prayers, especially mine, because I've been praying for a Moobs-free show since right after Restaurant Wars. Stop being such a dick, Jesus.
  
  All right, so there is no more Bilious Brownstone, which is nice, because that means there will be no more having to watch MassholEd getting dolled up in dresses (or JerseyMoobs in his trademark Soiled Tank Top). Instead we get to listen to some Asian-y sounding hip-hop paired with shots of colorful flowers, lanterns, Chinese characters and giant skyscrapers...
  
  
  adorned with dildoes
  
  
  
  Suddenly we see Miss Swan walking around a street market and interviewing how excited she is to be in Singapore for the first-ever international Top Chef finale. She's wearing fugshorts and her hair is lank and damp with the heat. And speaking of sweaty, here comes MassholEd lumbering into view, telling us how seriously he takes all of this (thus the urge for cross-dressing) and that "there's gonna be bloodshed". Yes, I know what you guys are thinking, I hope he cuts himself, too. He meets up with Swanella and lies to her about how "awesome" his 26-hour flight from the U.S. to Singapore was. And speaking of not-really-awesome, here comes JerseyMoobs...
  
  
  decked out in a sexy parson's hat
  
  The one cool thing that MassholEd does in this entire supersized episode is immediately give ol' BitchTits some shit about the stupid hat. Moobsie tries to laugh it down, but he immediately (and quite self-consciously) takes it off. Then OranJello shows up (in his usual V-neck baby-tee) and everyone fake-hugs him. Then JerseyMoobs starts talking about how huge his wife is getting with his chubspawn, and laughing about how you can actually see the little fucker's arms and legs moving in her belly. Yeah, I bet she was just giggling up a storm while laying there having , you know, another human being stuffed inside of her and kicking her internal organs into new and interesting configurations. I think JerseyMoobs better get used to jerking off, cuz I bet she doesn't let him near her vagina again for at least a year.
  
  Anyhow, mercifully for us all, Daddy Tom shows up to welcome them to Singapore and introduce today's guest judge, who is a one-named Asian icon (much like Madonna, Janet and Cher)...
  
  
  with a slightly less-impressive title
  
  Although who knows, maybe they have some kind of Michael Jackson-esque martial-arts/dance showdown for who gets the title of "King Of Singapore Street Food" or something. In any case, C3PToh there tells the chefs that they're hanging out in a "hawker centre" which is basically an outdoor food court, and an institution that "feeds Singapore" (and possibly gives it the squitters if the Wikipedia article on them is to be believed). Daddy Tom takes off so they can go explore the kind of food this place sells.
  
  They head on over to this one poor guy that C3PToh says has been making the same damned noodle dish for over 40 years. Jesus, food service jobs in Singapore suck! Forty years and he can't even get promoted to, like, cooking Asian pizza or Chinese burgers or something? Perhaps he adds a little Shug Avery pee to the mix every once in a...

Meet the New Girl: Jana Knauerova Chose to Become a Model Over a Violinist

• Feb 03, 2011 from NewYorkMagazine(New York Magazine) in Lifestyle
  Czech model Jana Knauerova's career began when she signed with New York Models. Having booked the covers of French L'Officiel and Italian D in the years following, this year it's become clear that the industry's best, including Anna Wintour and Mario Testino, are championing the 21-year-old. A dedicated violin player, Knauerova walked exclusively for Balenciaga's spring 2011 show in Paris, where she received her now-trademark short peroxide do. Donatella Versace then requested Knauerova to model in the label's spring campaign, shot by Testino and styled by Joe McKenna. And soon after that, she

Bruce Springsteen

• Sep 21, 2010 from pixelstoreus(PIXELSTORE.US) in *
  Bruce Springsteen
  Life and career
  19491972: Early years
  Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived off South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver; his surname is Dutch for stepping stone. His mother, Adele Ann (ne Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
  
  Raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic school in Freehold Borough, where he was at odds with both the nuns and other students, even though much of his later music reflects a deep Catholic ethos and included many rock-influenced, traditional Irish-Catholic hymns.
  In ninth grade, he transferred to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit in there, either. Old teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar. He completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out.
  Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, he bought his first guitar for ; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Springsteen a Kent guitar, as he later memorialized in his song The Wish.
  In 1965, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become lead guitarist and subsequently the lead singer of The Castiles. The Castiles recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Brick Township and played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Marion Vinyard said that she believed the young Springsteen when he promised he would make it big.
  Called for induction when he was 19, Springsteen failed his physical examination and didnt serve in Vietnam. In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine in 1984, he said, When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I aint goin. He suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17, and this together with his crazy behaviour at induction and not taking the tests, was enough to get him a 4F.
  New Jersey beach towns such as Asbury Park, New Jersey inspired the themes of ordinary life in Bruce Springsteens music.
  In the late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen acquired the nickname The Boss during this period as when he played club gigs with a band he took on the task of collecting the bands nightly pay and distributing it amongst his bandmates. Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses. Lately, however, he seems to have accepted the nickname. Many recent concerts have audiences making up various signs on banners, license plates and so on saying, Boss Time. Previously he had the nickname Doctor. From 1969 through early 1971, Springsteen performed with Steel Mill, which also featured Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and Robbin Thompson. They went on to play the mid-Atlantic college circuit, and also briefly in California. In January 1970 well-known San Francisco Examiner music critic Philip Elwood gave Springsteen credibility in his glowing assessment of Steel Mill: I have never been so overwhelmed by totally unknown talent. Elwood went on to praise their cohesive musicality and, in particular, singled out Springsteen as a most impressive composer. During this time Springsteen also performed regularly at small clubs in Asbury Park and along the Jersey Shore, quickly gathering a cult following. Other acts followed over the next two years, as Springsteen sought to shape a unique and genuine musical and lyrical style: Dr Zoom & the Sonic Boom (earlyid 1971), Sundance Blues Band (mid 1971), and The Bruce Springsteen Band (mid 1971id 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the core of what would later become the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary additions such as horn sections, The Zoomettes (a group of female backing vocalists for Dr Zoom) and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres explored included blues, R&B, jazz, church music, early rockn'roll, and soul. His prolific songwriting ability, with more words in some individual songs than other artists had in whole albums, brought his skill to the attention of several people who were about to change his life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who,...