Richie was no slouch…

Yeah, fuck Kickstarter. They've lost credibility with a lot of people over this.

Pledge amounts are credit card holds which you get from Kickstarter (less their take) once the project fundraising time is over, provided the pledged amount surpasses the goal amount. (In Brown's case the goal was $10 and the time frame was a month, so in 20 odd days he gets the loot.)

I really don't care what this dude does with the money. He can go on a cocaine and whiskey binge with a stable of hookers as far as I'm concerned. The people who pledged money for this stupid, stupid joke, on the other hand, get all my possible contempt.

That would be cool.

This is probably the best of all the Hatesong series. Or my favorite, anyway.
PS: "A horrid Concrete Blonde rip off." Wish I'd come up with that.

Um, yeah, karma and all that…

"Ron Howard still remains the greatest kid actor in the history of American television."

Yeah, but you can't keep identifying the man as if he was Billy Ray Cyrus, either.

Then the promoters are inept, to say the least.

It's Dublin, not Bumfuck, Iowa. They can handle it.

Unless this particular situation violates some city ordinance which the promoters overlooked, I don't see the problem with having the 5 shows.
Also, a dude that's been retired for over a decade still has that kinda pull at the box office? Damn.

Well, think about it: if the Hendrix estate were open for biopic business—and they weren't too heavy handed and all about sanitizing his image a la Queen with Freddie Mercury—half of Hollywood would jump at the chance.
But even if that were the case, I think these guys—despite not having access to the music—got a juicy…

"…Brown…bathing in the sweet, sweet tears of artists whose dreams will never become a reality because the Internet spent all of its money on a dumb joke about potato salad."

Um, I like that my train station (Fourth Ave on the F line) was featured in Carlito's Way (when he escapes from the mobsters at his club).

Smartass.

"But are people enough of Jimi Hendrix fans that they care this much about him without hearing his iconic songs?"

I can see where you're coming from but Jimi's backstory is a hell of a lot more interesting than the vast majority of artists, so it could work. They're going the Backbeat route: Beatles in Hamburg and no Beatles original tunes. Which, from what I gather—never seen it—wasn't a turd, so…

EzN's "New Thing" is a perfect example of cool power pop tune unfortunately dressed in spandex. A shame, really.
(Although that ridiculous name did not help one bit.)

I thought Anne Hathaway was a NYer…