Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese has come up with a novel way of promoting his solo album – pimping out his rock star mates.

If the standard $7 download of Since 1972 doesn’t float your boat sufficiently, $10,000 buys you a unique one-time offer comprising: “A Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour. Josh gives you a private drum lesson or his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking). Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you as a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple of rides (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror). At the end of the day drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours… take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.”
www.joshfreese.com also has details of 13 other packages, top price $75,000, which in various ways involve Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, The Vandals, Devo, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan and Danny Carey and his former NIN bandmate Robin Finck who’s down for taking a trapeze lesson with you and cooking lasagna (these Americans really can’t spell!)
Staying with rock and/or roll, Ozzy Osbourne is the latest legend to get the Iconz treatment, with a limited-edition devil’s horn salute sculpture of him available from knucklebonz.com/ozzy_osbourne.html.
While the Pirate Bay crew Twittered their way through their recent court case – are we the only ones who’d like to see the smug nerdy twats locked up for a couple of years? – the League Of Nobel Peers were unleashing a special ‘trial edition’ of their Steal This Film BitTorrent-only movie.
“Lawsuits are still levied against innocent people,” they fume. “Arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse. Harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state.”
Download Steal This Film 2.5 from stealthisfilm.com/trial.
It may be pissing down here, but it’s always sunny on Vibe, the Caymen Island’s “Big FM”, which we’ve been tuned into all week courtesy of www.radiotower.com and its links to thousands of stations all over the world.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to chalfontstpeter.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/becoming-batman (Batman moves from Gotham City to Chalfont St. Peters); www.myspace.com/sashabognibov (‘I Love The Girls Of 13 Years Old’ and other pop of dubious provenance from the real life, non-ironic Borat); and www.flickr.com/photos/junku/sets/303691 (you’ll believe a cat can fly).