ART BRUT frontman EDDIE ARGOS has landed his dream chore - as a laughable book columnist.
The rocker has been accredited to write a semiweekly column for online fanzine Playback:stl.
The self-described mirthful book fiend landed the job subsequently supplying iI test Pow! To the People columns to the site.
The Playback:stl website receives in surplus of four-spot million hits per month.
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STEVEN SPIELBERG feels partly to blame for the bugs that plague those living near to Elstree Studios in London - because he may have inadvertently sparked the problem when he was filming INDIANA JONES + THE TEMPLE OF DOOM there.
The moviemaker reveals it was a constant challenge keeping the real creepy crawlies he hired for the shoot on set - because handlers couldn't keep them under control.
Spielberg covered his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, with the bugs for one shocking scene - and is now convinced he's partly responsible for infestations in West London.
He says, "The problem with bugs is they're fast and they're small and they can escape so it was very hard for us to keep the bugs in the confines of the very small set we had built.
"The bugs would literally be 25 per cent less every day we shot. And they would escape under the real estate of Elstree Studios and they'd eventually get into the eco system of the surrounding communities.
"By the last day of shooting we only had 25 per cent of our bugs left; not nearly enough to make the scene work - so we had to send out for more bugs."
Pearl Jam will be selling live "bootlegs" of each date on their current U.S. tour - which began last night, June 11th, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Three weeks after every show, a CD of the gig will be sold via the band's official website, while MP3s and FLACs will be available just two weeks after each performance.
Mobile "bootlegs", which can be used as ringtones, will also be available, featuring three live recordings from each show. These will be released through the website and via Verizon Wireless' V CAST Music service.
Kevin Greening died from a drugs overdose after taking part in a gay bondage session, an inquest heard Tuesday.
The body of the 44-year-old former BBC Radio 1 Breakfast DJ was found by police in a flat in Wandsworth, south London, in December last year, Westminster Coroner's Court heard.
Coroner Paul Knapman recorded a verdict of misadventure.
He said, "He was found dead having indulged in unorthodox sexual behaviour involving restraint equipment and illegal drugs."
On the day he died, Greening -- who co-hosted Radio 1's breakfast show from 1997 to 1998 with fellow DJ Zoe Ball -- had been in a leather sling attached to scaffolding in the bedroom of the flat occupied by his boyfriend Sean Griffin, the inquest heard.
At the time, the inquest heard, Greening was still wearing a rubber suit and had cling film and "gaffer tape" around him.
Recording his verdict, Mr Knapman said Greening died from a "mixed drugs toxicity" or overdose and not from being held "in a form of bondage."
Griffin -- who had had initially been arrested on suspicion of murder but was later released without charge when the circumstances of Kevin's death had become clear -- told the inquest he had become concerned about the radio star when he noticed that his face was pale and the area around his mouth was grey.
Asked by Dr Knapman to confirm that at all times their activity had been "perfectly consensual" between the two men in the privacy of the flat, Mr Griffin replied: "Indeed."
"Kevin and I had a very happy and very vigorous sex life," he said.
"It was not conventional by heterosexual norms perhaps but it was a sex life which was vigorous and imaginative and we enjoyed each other."
The inquest heard that tests on Greening's blood after his death found traces of cocaine and ecstasy.
R+B star USHER has denied firing his mother as his manager - he insists he "retired her".
The singer ended his 15-year professional relationship with Jonetta Patton just days before Mother's Day last year (07). She then missed his wedding to Tameka Foster last August (08).
He admits the pair fell out, over what he considered to be her lack of support, but he has stressed that he parted ways with her for her own sake.
Usher tells Vibe magazine's July edition, "(I paid her) the ultimate compliment - to retire her to be a full-time grandmother. My mother and I decided to change her situation. There was a conversation. I didn't write her a letter or pink slip her."
The 29-year-old star admits the split was hard for him, but necessary for his career: "I hurt more than anything over these last two years when I felt my mother didn't really embrace my situation. My mother is an aggressive person. She makes hard decisions, and she caused me to make a hard decision as well."
Newlyweds ASHLEE SIMPSON and PETE WENTZ have confirmed they are expecting their first child.
The couple has been dogged by pregnancy rumours for weeks, but refused to confirm the news until now.
Wentz announced his new wife is pregnant by writing on his website, "While many have speculated about this, we wanted to wait until after the first trimester to officially confirm that we are expecting our first child.
"This is truly the most joyous time in our lives and we are excited to share the happy news and start our family."
The pair wed in Encino, California earlier this month (17May08).
