A limo ride with Bono, chats with each of his U2 bandmates, country cutie Keith Urban sending yours truly a book with a note the day after our talk ... Indeed, 2009 proved to be one exceptional year of chinwags for music critic Jane Stevenson. Here's the best of what they had to say:
"I'd like to have a foursome with them!"
-- Lady Gaga on MuchMusic Video Awards hosts and fellow performers, The Jonas Brothers
"Jesus and the gays."
-- Lady Gaga on her style inspirations
"If I have to roll up a joint and have a beer in order to get (my audience) to really talk and listen to some real ideas -- then so be it."
-- Rapper Asher Roth, who espouses beer bongs, weed and naked girls in his breakthrough party anthem, I Love College
"It's amazing the amount of applause you can get for suggesting the ladies of these towns you are visiting are of loose morals. The weird thing is that it's the girls who are cheering."
-- Elvis Costello
"My life was Trainspotting for a while, remember that movie? THAT was my life ... and it was misery."
-- Hugh Dillon, formerly of the Headstones, and now a sober solo artist and actor
"To be honest with you, by the end, I was pretty much blacked out by noon -- really."
-- Creed singer Scott Stapp on his drug-alcohol mixture issues, which he has since conquered
"I'm not one for being fashionable or seen -- said the guy wearing a big mouse head."
-- Toronto electronica star Deadmau5 (pronounced Deadmouse), who performs in a custom-made, oversized mouse head
"It's good to be at almost the edge of ridiculousness, then venture into doing something creative."
-- Jack White of The White Stripes on recording with his second side band, The Dead Weather
"I've just been lucky in the body department, as long as you keep the legs out of it."
-- 65-year-old Roger Daltrey on his enviable physique
"I know Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher and they always say, 'Oh, man, we wish we were respected like you lads are,' and I think, 'God, I wish I had your millions, mate.' You can't win 'em all, can you?"
-- New Order/Joy Division bassist Peter Hook
"I don't even know why rock musicians should be getting paid more than doctors. It's just entertainment."
-- Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde
"Mr. President says to me, 'I didn't know your husband was Elvis Costello.' ...So it's pretty cool when the president is like, going, 'Oh, my God, your husband is Elvis Costello!' "
-- Diana Krall on her chat with U.S. President Barack Obama
"Some evenings it's like 80,000 people (and it doesn't bother you), and then some evenings it's like, 'F------ hell, it's 80,000 people.'"
-- Robbie Williams on his stage fright
"I buy a lot of handbags. I could have bought a house if I hadn't bought all them handbags."
-- British pop star Adele
"I started to feel maybe like I was a sports car that they were going to put a tarp on and take a tarp off any time they wanted to. So as an artist, I couldn't really do that."
-- J.D. Fortune on his split from INXS
"Mikey got thrown out of the band ruthlessly ... (Eddie and Alex Van Halen) just cut his throat and threw him out to the side of the road."
-- Sammy Hagar on the firing of Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony
"There's only a couple of other people I can really say that are in my pop field that are (working five nights a week) and that are in the grind. Otherwise, the rest of them are hawking mints and Pro-activ."
-- Katy Perry
"When Bono hears two notes together he hears a song complete. When anyone else hears two notes together, we hear a starting point."
-- Adam Clayton on Bono's hope there will be another U2 album sooner than later
"I wish I had been there! I would have jumped up there and said, 'Give me that microphone! Give that back to her!' "
-- Reba McEntire on Kanye West upstaging Taylor Swift during MTV Video Music Awards
"The first day we met, he was like, 'So what hours do you like to work?' And I was like, 'Friday.' "
-- Robbie Williams on working with noted British producer Trevor Horn
"She sings lines like, 'Bullied, suckered, pimped and patronized,' and makes it sound like a good idea."
-- Dave Gray on the vocal talent of Annie Lennox with whom he recorded the duet, Full Steam
"I hope everybody sells a million records and I sell a million-and-one."
-- 2008 American Idol winner David Cook on 2009 winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert
"There were times during the process that I got a little bit irritable and frustrated. He did, too. It's not like I'm some 18-year-old."
-- Harry Connick Jr. on working with Clive Davis on his latest album
"Either you're going to be egotistical, because they're going to blow so much steam (up your you know what), or you're going to want to crawl in a hole and die."
-- Kelly Clarkson on not reading her own press
"Then we all went out to the pub, of course, and got a bit rat-arsed (drunk)."
-- Dolores O' Riordan on what she did after reuniting with her Cranberries in January in Dublin
"I think I've been lazy. I think I've done just as much as I need to make it work."
-- Jann Arden
"There's a reason why they call it anonymous. I don't want to sit and talk about AA in interviews."
-- Country singer Terri Clark, who has been sober for a year
"We get a script writer and they write the same old Carry On Keith lot because it's easy. Basically, they're all f------ lazy."
-- Roger Daltrey on his struggles to get a good script for his long-awaited Keith Moon bio-pic
"I hate to record. It is so tedious and repetitive. I never record anything over three times. They're songs! My God! They aren't cures for cancer. How long does it take to put a song together? It's a song!"
-- Soul singer Bettye LaVette
"(Bruce Allen) said, 'You need to let me manage you. Rumour on the street ... is that you're unmanageable.' And maybe I have been."
-- Jann Arden
"Malcolm is one of my all-time favourite rhythm guitar players. I think he's one of the greatest on the planet. And he never gets any props."
-- Keith Urban on AC/DC's Malcolm Young
"The ease and use of an mp3 and an iPod is all well and good and it's convenient and affordable. But without moving parts I think people are losing the beauty and the romance of music. It's becoming invisible."
-- Jack White, who is bringing vinyl back
"There was too much money and too much stupidity and too much excess. ... I certainly don't feel doom and gloom. I'm delighted that any industry can destroy itself with its own greed."
-- Chrissie Hynde on the record industry
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- 12"L x 1.5"W x 6"H
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As Seen In Style Watch - People Magazine, this "After Hours" night clutch is a must have.
Organza wrapped satin body with twisted pleat detail with an optional drop-in chain strap. The inside has a backwall open pocket for easy access items. Comes with a jeweled clasp closure and satin lining.
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Madoff Auction Includes 17 Rolexes and 11 Hermes Handbags
Since Bernard Madoff ripped off so many people in his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, the government has found the perfect way to repay his victims: by auctioning off all the extravagant stuff Madoff was able to afford through fraud. According to Bloomberg.com, said items include 17 Rolex watches (including one incredibly rare Oyster chronograph worth an estimated $63,500) and 11 leather Hermes handbags that once belonged to Bernie's wife Ruth Madoff.
Some other treasures include more watches (seven from Cartier) and more high-end purses from Chanel, Prada, Jil Sander, Judith Leiber, Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton. Tiffany & Co. cufflinks, Christofle flatware, and more of Ruth's fur coats are also in the mix. All of the items associated with the Madoffs will be part of a larger auction of things seized in connection with "narcotics crimes, white-collar crimes, all federal crimes," according to a US Deputy Marshal.
The Madoff items were taken from Bernie and Ruth's Upper East side penthouse apartment and their Montauk, New York beach house (which sold for $9.4 million). The Madoff auction will occur on November 14 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.
Some other treasures include more watches (seven from Cartier) and more high-end purses from Chanel, Prada, Jil Sander, Judith Leiber, Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton. Tiffany & Co. cufflinks, Christofle flatware, and more of Ruth's fur coats are also in the mix. All of the items associated with the Madoffs will be part of a larger auction of things seized in connection with "narcotics crimes, white-collar crimes, all federal crimes," according to a US Deputy Marshal.
The Madoff items were taken from Bernie and Ruth's Upper East side penthouse apartment and their Montauk, New York beach house (which sold for $9.4 million). The Madoff auction will occur on November 14 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.
The times when you could carry half of your closet around in one of your huge Sondra Roberts handbags are starting to come to an end.
Designers are trying their best to make us understand that the Sondra Roberts handbags is meant to be an accessory and not just a bag that we use to carry our stuff. That doesn’t mean that if you actually need one of the roomier Sondra Roberts handbags you’re going to have to sacrifice just for the sake of fashion. The small Sondra Roberts purses are always very appropriate at parties, clubs and even on a night out with the girls.
If you want to draw attention to yourself make sure you wear the right accessories to put you out of obscurity. The Sondra Roberts purses are a good choice if you want flashy, sophisticated designs and top-quality Italian leathers.
One of the reasons why designers are trying to get us to wear smaller types of Sondra Roberts purses is that a woman’s handbag has often been called a scientific curiosity as it is 10 times bigger on the inside than on the outside. Now of course that’s a joke, but like all good ones, it does have a point.
I’m not saying I do so, but some women just don’t seem to find that balance between portability and utility. So even if they invested in a stylish handbag like one of the Sondra Roberts purses they would fit in there something like 57 keys with no lock, 15 types of lipstick, 37 pens, all, and I mean all the receipts from the grocery store, samples of leather from the mall, two cell phones, gum and an endless stream of jewels and other accessories , some of which they don’t even know they have.
Now do you get what they mean by saying it’s a scientific curiosity?
Good. Now understand that even with the stylish Sondra Roberts purses, you still have to pay attention at the way you organize your things. And also remember to try and choose the smaller ones if possible.
My hope is that you got something from this and that you enjoyed reading it. Sondra Roberts purses are great accessories. You just have to use them right.
Designers are trying their best to make us understand that the Sondra Roberts handbags is meant to be an accessory and not just a bag that we use to carry our stuff. That doesn’t mean that if you actually need one of the roomier Sondra Roberts handbags you’re going to have to sacrifice just for the sake of fashion. The small Sondra Roberts purses are always very appropriate at parties, clubs and even on a night out with the girls.
If you want to draw attention to yourself make sure you wear the right accessories to put you out of obscurity. The Sondra Roberts purses are a good choice if you want flashy, sophisticated designs and top-quality Italian leathers.
One of the reasons why designers are trying to get us to wear smaller types of Sondra Roberts purses is that a woman’s handbag has often been called a scientific curiosity as it is 10 times bigger on the inside than on the outside. Now of course that’s a joke, but like all good ones, it does have a point.
I’m not saying I do so, but some women just don’t seem to find that balance between portability and utility. So even if they invested in a stylish handbag like one of the Sondra Roberts purses they would fit in there something like 57 keys with no lock, 15 types of lipstick, 37 pens, all, and I mean all the receipts from the grocery store, samples of leather from the mall, two cell phones, gum and an endless stream of jewels and other accessories , some of which they don’t even know they have.
Now do you get what they mean by saying it’s a scientific curiosity?
Good. Now understand that even with the stylish Sondra Roberts purses, you still have to pay attention at the way you organize your things. And also remember to try and choose the smaller ones if possible.
My hope is that you got something from this and that you enjoyed reading it. Sondra Roberts purses are great accessories. You just have to use them right.
