CLASH OF THE -TECH TITANS

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker in screaming match outside Hollywood club

He was no stranger to drama in The Social Network, but LA clubgoers got a close look at just how tough a partnership with Mark Zuckerberg can be. The Facebook boss reportedly got into an alcohol-fuelled shouting match with Napster co-founder Sean Parker over the site's new ties with Spotify.

The New York Post reported that the two were at the Hollywood hotspot The Beverly this month to mark the music service’s launch with Facebook.

Partnership: Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker were pictured with Snoop Dogg at Sean Parker's Celebration of Music in San Francisco last month

But after boozing it up long into the night, the two got into a heated conversation that turned into a public dust-up outside the club.

A source told the paper's Page Six: ‘Sean and Mark had done the big Spotify launch and headed to The Beverly to party.

hey spent a lot of money on alcohol, and as the night went on they got into an intense discussion, which turned into a loud argument as they left.'
The Parker camp denied the claims.

Dust-Up: Sean Parker reportedly got into an alcohol-fuelled spat with Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's new ties with Spotify

A rep for Mr Parker told Page Six: 'Most stories have a grain of truth. There were together at The Beverly, they did discuss Spotify and Facebook, but they did not have an argument.'

A Facebook official would not return the paper’s request for a comment.

Spotify is partly backed by Parker, who made his name as a supporter of the original Napster music service before becoming a backer of Facebook.

Spotify now has 250,000 paying subscribers, Reuters reported yesterday.

Boss: Mark Zuckerberg's complicated business partnerships were chronicled in the 2010 film The Social Network

Mr Parker, a digital entrepreneur, joined Facebook as an adviser in 2004 before becoming the site’s first president.  But he was forced out of the post following a cocaine possession bust a year later. He was never charged due to a lack of evidence.

While Mr Parker remains a part-owner of Facebook, he no longer has an active role at the multi-billion-dollar company.However, he remains as a consultant to Mr Zuckerberg.

The complex business relationship between Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Parker was chronicled in 2010’s The Social Network.

In the film, Mr Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) is portrayed as a money-obsessed, but brilliant, party animal.

Taken from:: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049158/Facebooks-Mark-Zuckerberg-Sean-Parker-drunken-fight-Hollywood-club.html#ixzz1ankMvDrZ

Former Weezer bassist found dead in Chicago hotel

Former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh was found dead in a Chicago hotel yesterday (October 8). He was just 40 years old.


Welsh - who joined the band in 1998 following the departure of Matt Sharp but left several months after the release of their self-titled 2001 album following a nervous breakdown - was in Illinois to see his former bandmates perform at the RiotFest show the following day. Police say that emergency services responded to a call at the Raffaello Hotel in Chicago, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Results of an autopsy will be revealed later this week.


"Mikey was planning on attending this show and we were looking forward to seeing him again," said Weezer in an official statement. "As sad as it is to think about, we know Mikey would never want the rock stopped on his account - quite the contrary in fact. While we won't see him, we know he will be there rocking out with us!


"When he emerged from his nervous breakdown that spelled his exit from the rock n' roll world, he took on a new role as an astonishing and pure visual artist. It was a glorious flowering of a talent he always possessed, but he had chosen to rock out first, paint later. We will miss him terribly. Our deepest heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends. The world has lost a truly one of a kind guy."


Bizarrely, Welsh, who later pursued a career as an artist following his stint in Weezer, predicted his own death in a post on Twitter on September 26.
"[I] dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep)," he wrote. "Need to write my will today."

SWEET PIE OF MINE

Judging from his concert in Brazil Monday night, the band's frontman was almost unrecognizable as he took the stage at the Rock in Rio music festival. The 49-year-old appeared in front of the crowd wearing a bright yellow trench coat, black hat and dark shades in an attempt to hide his enlarged figure.

The rocker has gained a significant amount of weight in the last year, sparking concern among fans who first noticed his increasing size last January. 

Before the performance, Rose told fans he was concerned about the rain, and said, "Good evening... good morning! Please bear with us and give us a little second here to figure out what to do about not falling on our asses."

The band sang their classic favorites, "Sweet Child of Mine," "Live and Let Die," and "Welcome to the Jungle." Guns N' Roses will begin their new tour in Orlando October 28.

VANAPRASTA GO INTO ORBIT

Let’s talk about Vanaprasta. The super sweet local band, who was named 2011 New Music Artist In Residence at 987FM.COM, is heading toward the Satellite for the entire month of October.
Yes, Vanaprasta is celebrating their album release at the Silver Lake venue with some of the best music L.A. has to offer including Rocco Delucca and Voxhaul Broadcast.
Come out every Monday for your listening pleasure! Its great music and it’s FREE!!!
The Satellite is located at 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026.  Venue is 21 and over. 8:30-11:30 p.m.

11/7: Vanaprasta w/
Future Ghost
Kimbra
Rocco Delucca
Beatnik Jr.


11/14: Vanaprasta w/
Empires
Twilight Sleep
Outernational


11/21: Vanaprasta w/
New Child
Hands
Rainbow Jackson


11/28: Vanaprasta w/
Chasing Kings
Voxhaul Broadcast
Summer Darling

THE.BEST.SOCIAL.MEDIA.TRAMP.EVER

Wade Cothran, also known as The.Best.Roommate.Ever, reached overnight fame after posting an advert on Craigslist vulgarly specifying all his ‘virtues’ of being a great roomy in a pretty funny and over-the-top manner.

“Konichiwa bitches. Are you looking for the most kick-ass fucking roommate that ever lived? If so, look no further. You fucking found him. I'm a 25-year-old professional marketing agent with experience at bad-ass companies in New York Fucking City. That's right! What you know about experience? I graduated from Auburn University in Alabama, and moved to NYC at the ripe, tender age of 22. After deciding that New York was a stinky shit-hole, I moved back to Alabama to cultivate more professional experience. Why? So I can make millions of dollars and not have to post shit like this on Craigslist.

Anyway, so I landed this job with a marketing firm in San Francisco, and I have no fucking clue where to live. Honestly, I'm moving there in 3 weeks, so I don't give a shit if I have to sleep in your bathtub. “

He became an instant internet star.

But fame has its costs—in Cothran’s case, not one but two jobs. He got fired from the gig he was leaving in Alabama—no big loss—but also from the job he was taking in San Francisco. You know what? He hit the road anyway and arrived in San Francisco where a coterie of well-wishers greeted him.

Cothran, a professional social media marketer working for a larger marketing firm, understands why his personal social media campaign might irk both companies. 

“I totally understand why I was fired,” Cothran told the Daily Dot. “My post was vulgar and could make them look bad.”

Now Cothran, 25, is jobless and homeless—but it may be the best thing that ever happened to him.

He’s got an inbox full of “book proposals, radio interviews, television spots and job offers”—all as a result of the ad. 

But...going by his recent Facebook activity the professional marketer who proudly proclaims he will “consistently blow your fucking mind with awesomeness’ promotes himself as no more than a scrounging, potty-mouthed jackass - not the kindly guy who keeps on giving and expects nothing in return that his new found friends at the Daily Dot define him as.

It doesn’t surprise me that Hollywood’s own immature ejaculation Ashton Kutcher was the first celeb to give Cothran a cringeworthy shout-out via Twitter...like some sort of personal induction to the Brohood of Big Kids.

So what of this inbox full of “book proposals, radio interviews and job offers”? 

Well just five days ago Cothran made another quite lengthy post - one that took more effort than his daily updates of drinking Vodka at garages, eating ecstacy until the morning and advising people to “get fucked up” - it sounded a little more downbeat than his original  post that made him a ‘viral superstar’. 

“I've created a PayPal account at the request of some very kind people who want to see me succeed. A dollar or ten or anything will help. Just visit the link below if you can spare a few coins. Thanks to all that donate. Please send me your information, so I can show up to your house and cook you dinner.”

Well it seems Cothran has already broke a pretty important rule of marketing - earning and keeping people’s trust. 

Just one month after declaring in a self-written editorial for the San Francisco Egotist that he was just about to gloriously embark on his journey through an “all-u-can-eat pussy buffet” and admitting that he hadn’t broken any of his own rules in stating that “I have not become a reality television star, I have not endorsed a product that you don’t need and I am not asking you to donate or give me money. That’s not what this is about”, The.Best.Roommate.Ever is now literally begging YOU, while he sits Tweeting his nomadic ass off in YOUR comfy couch, to fund him while he has the time of his life drinking free beer from YOUR fridge, eating YOUR food (which he’ll kindly cook...wow) and basically being a new-age Social Media Tramp. Well fuck that for a packet of beef jerky.

It’s not that he embarrassed the San Franciscan marketing company he got fired from, or “made them blush” which he arrogantly admits in his childish smart-ass manner, it’s that he’s too naive to realize what they just don’t want...The.Worst.Fucking.Employee.Ever.

Sometimes it just ain’t advisable to market yourself to millions of people around the world that you’re actively pursuing the life of a drunk and a drug-taker while constantly degrading women and relishing the idea of living like a bum when you want to get ahead in the world of marketing. 

WINNING? ... not exactly

NOEL GALLAGHER WAS IN MY HOOD AND NOBODY SAID A THING?!@#$ ARRGH!! KILL ME!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds new video for "If I Had A Gun" is available now!!  The video directed by Los Angeles' very own Mike Bruce, is available on Fuse and on VEVO at http://www.vevo.com/artist/noel-gallagher .

The video was filmed at The Paramour in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The video features Peyton List from Madmen as the bride and Tim Murphy from Criminal Minds as the father of the bride. The video will debut on MTV and VH-1 tomorrow on September 27th.

Fans can click here for a behind the scenes look at the making of the video: VEVO News: Behind The Scenes Of "If I Had A Gun..."

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will embark on their debut North American tour kicking off on November 7th in Toronto, ON at Massey Hall (see below for detailed ticketing information - Note additional shows have been added to both New York & Los Angeles). The following day, Noel's solo debut album NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS will be released on November 8th in the U.S. on Sour Mash/Mercury Records.

SLY STONE IS HOMELESS BY CHOICE!! REALLY, HE INSISTS

If Sly Stone is homeless, it's by choice and not necessity, according to sources close to the funk legend.  

Stone's attorney Robert Alan has supposedly rented a four-bedroom home in Woodland Hills for his client, one unnamed source told Showbiz411 exclusively. "He's too paranoid to come inside," another source told writer Roger Friedman. That person was described as a friend of the singer.

Alan wouldn't comment on the rental house, Friedman said. Documentary director Willem Alkema co-wrote Sunday's "Sly Stone Is Homeless and Living in a Van" article for the New York Post.

That's not to say Stone hadn't admitted struggling with drugs, nor that he isn't in financial trouble of the maybe-a-$50-million-lawsuit-will-fix-it variety -- he sued former manager Jerry Goldstein in early 2010, alleging fraud and the diversion of $20 million to $30 million in royalties. Goldstein, who took the name War from that band in a legal battle in 1997, countersued Stone a few months later, alleging the singer had slandered him onstage at the Coachella festival.

Four of the original War members, who regrouped as the Lowrider Band, are pursuing a $10-million lawsuit against Goldstein over allegedly unpaid royalties.

[For the Record, 9:10 a.m. Sept. 29: This post originally said attorney Alan had confirmed to Friedman that Stone had been paid by Alkema for the interview. No such payment occurred, Alkema told the Ministry on Thursday. The Showbiz411 article has since been revised, with references to payments deleted. A reference to Friedman saying in the original Showbiz411 article that the filmmaker was seeking a re-release of the documentary and would benefit from publicity has been removed from this post as well. Alkema said via email that he is not seeking a re-release of his film in the U.S., where it has not been screened beyond film festivals. "If there is a re-release it needs a happy ending," Alkema wrote. "Sly will make it if he tries."]


This article was taken from:  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/09/sly-stone-homeless-not-homeless-rental-home-willem-alkema.html