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Two Days Of Solitude [To Do]

newVideoPlayer("/todoquiettime_def.flv", 506, 423,""); We're not sure what kind of tomes dominated your college experience, but for us, one of our faves had to have been Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude. While it would be undeniably awesome to be a trustfunder who could spend 100 years ruminating humankind's inescapable potential and reality, we have bills to pay. Which, unfortunately, means we're gonna have to settle for spending this weekend enjoying a measly two days of solitude. So break out your finest bottle box of Franzia, smoke 'em (if you got 'em) and kick back for a refreshing 132 seconds of pre-weekend solitude as you take in this weekend's To Do's (brought to you, as always, by our own manic pixie dream girl Molly McAleer). Have a great weekend! FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 · Eddie Izzard at The Kodak. · Refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv. · Art Under the Stars in Baldwin Park. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 · Love Festival at LA Memorial Coliseum. · Henry Coombes at the Hammer Museum. · The Grown Up Noise at The Mint. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 · Funkmaster Flex Car Show at Anaheim Convention Center. · Swinging Sundays at The Derby. · Taylor Dayne at the Starlight Bowl.

Published: 2008-08-08 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do, Molly McAleer

More 'Complications' on the Way For New, Underwhelming Guns N' Roses Album? [The New Noise]

Guns N' Roses takes its 15-year battle with irrelevance straight to the people today, officially releasing the title track of its long, long, long, long-delayed album Chinese Democracy after years of leaks, lawsuits and general internecine drama that left a once-great rock band in yawning disarray. We've tired enough of attempting to keep up that we hadn't bothered tracking down the new single before this morning; it's about as soft as Axl Rose's cosmetically burnished features and, as presumed, won't make us forget anything on Appetite For Destruction. And thank goodness, because despite Democracy's Nov. 23 release date finally laid down by Interscope Records, GNR's manager hinted to Entertainment Weekly today that even more "complications" are imminent. Somewhat intriguingly, EW retracted this morning's item headlined, "Guns N' Roses manger: 'Great art takes time'" almost as soon as it was published — right around the time the single first hit the radio and began streaming online. But why? After all, rock managers are chronically bloated with braggadocio, even if shaking up their band's label and exclusive retail partners at Best Buy with suggestions that Nov. 23 doesn't really mean Nov. 23: [A]ccording to GNR's current manager, Azoff's Andy Gould, you can't rush the magic of rock. "Art and commerce have always made strange bedfellows," Gould tells EW.com. "When they asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, they didn't say, 'Can you do it in the fourth quarter?' so they can make their numbers. Great art sometimes takes time." [...] With less than a month to go until fans can judge the final product for themselves (pending approval of the album's artwork, which, Gould hinted, could have its own complications), the anticipation — and pressure — is most certainly high. The full EW item (we think — is there something we missed, tipsters?) is currently available only on GNR fan forums (we know you're starved for Matt Pinfield's take on the "most expensive rock r

Published: 2008-10-22 Provider: Defamer Keywords: The New Noise, Axlo Rose, chinese democracy, guns n roses, interscope