Broken Hallelujah

Keith Richards is 60 years old today. That Richards has reached 60 at all is a source of some amazement. For a long time in the 1970s when he was "a human chemical laboratory" - his own description - you couldn't have got decent odds on him making 40. He lived on a diet of heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, LSD and heaven knows what else, washed down with industrial quantities of Jack Daniels. Many of his drug buddies, including Gram Parsons and John Belushi, failed to make it.



{timewaster of the day} Visit Tongsville - Take a Flash-based trip through town with the innovative Brits who created classic videos for Beck, Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy, REM and Fatboy Slim. Make sure to click away on every building and store you pass by... lots of fun and surprises await!



Is President Bush gay? It's all so damn fabulous. Betty Bowers' satire site poses the question.



Get a George In The Box toy for only $29.95. [via: coolios]



Got ready to go to the LOTR premiere showing last night, and decided to call first to check on ticket availability. "4 tickets left", they said. First come, first served. So I missed out on last night. Did anyone get to see it? I think Alexandra did.



{blog site of the day} Eurotrash



Is it time for your medication or mine?