Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Head Like A?
In a new interview, Trent Reznor has further explained that while the current Nine Inch Nails tour is the band's last, he has no plans to retire from music making. Speaking to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the NIN main man said that the group "as a touring live band or live band that's on the road all the time is stopping. I've just reached the point... where it has invaded every other aspect of my life. Also I think creatively, my time would be better spent on other stuff that could be NIN or outside NIN. Some of it may be collaborative things. I have a number of projects that are not music-related which I have put on the back burner for a long time..."
He continued, "I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work... In my paranoia, I fear that if I don't stop this, it could become that. Because it's nice to get a paycheck, and now the only way to get a paycheck is to play live, so it's all those things swirling around in my head."
AB Says: You could be making money on records if they wouldn't be all wacked out! Just because it sounds good in a recording studio doing rails of blow off the sound board does not mean the public will buy into it. As far as Gene Simmons goes, he has made some MAJOR MAJOR loot off the KISS brand. Maybe they have not had the handful (and I use that term loosely) of hits that NIN has had but, he took the brand and ran with it. He makes a lot of money looking like a clown and has never wondered if that's the only way to get a paycheck.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
This Is Simply INSANE!
CROWN POINT -- The family of a woman whose body was found decomposing in the basement of a Gary funeral home that closed in 2006 have sued the business.
After the funeral, Serenity Gardens funeral director Darryl Cammack presented the family of Rosa Villarreal with a cannister he said held the ashes of the 50-year-old East Chicago woman.
Family members learned in May that Cammack had apparently left Villarreal's body to rot, beside three other cadavers, in the funeral home after his license was suspended in 2006.
"He just closed up his business and forgot about my mom," said Marisol Villarreal, the oldest of Rosa Villarreal's five children. But now I've got to think about her body, sitting in there for three years, in the winters and the summers."
Villarreal, her brothers and father filed a lawsuit against Cammack and Serenity Gardens in Lake County Superior Court on Tuesday morning, claiming Cammack committed fraud, theft of services, breach of contract and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional stress.
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter still is reviewing evidence from an investigation of the funeral home and Cammack by the Gary Police and the Lake County Coroner's Office. Cammack could not be reached for comment.
"It's been three months, and there have been no criminal charges against Mr. Cammack," said Daniel Vinovich, the Highland attorney representing the Villarreals.
"No one has yet tried to hold this man accountable. The family wants some answers."
The Villarreals were referred to Serenity Gardens by a cousin after Rosa Villarreal died Aug. 1, 2006. The family struggled to come up with the $1,705 Cammack requested for the cremation and a memorial service at the funeral home, on 21st Avenue in Gary.
When they arrived at Serenity Gardens, Villarreal said the air conditioning wasn't functioning, and the entire building had a moldy, stuffy smell. Cammack, the only employee they saw in the building, told them the air conditioning had failed because of a power outage in the neighborhood.
After the funeral, they had to call him repeatedly before he finally dropped off the ashes, in a coffee-can-like container in a velvet bag. They later saved up for an urn.
When she heard about the bodies discovered in the funeral home in May, after a church group that bought the building at a tax sale first came to inspect its purchase, Marisol Villarreal said she immediately feared the worst.
Rosa Villarreal's body was identified by dental records and by a scarf she was wearing at her funeral. Marisol Villarreal said she wept when Coroner David Pastrick showed her the scarf. Pastrick refused to let her see her mother's body, which was decomposed.
"I wanted to see. I wanted to be there when they cremated her. I don't want to go through this again," she said.
Dispelling earlier reports, Pastrick on Tuesday confirmed the ashes the Villarreals received in 2006 were human remains.
"Whose remains, we don't know. We'll never know," he said.
Rosa Villarreal and three other bodies found at Serenity Gardens were cremated, free of charge, by Solan-Pruzin funeral home in Schererville.
Marisol Villarreal has a new urn that holds what she is now confident are her mother's remains.
"I just want him to pay for what he did," she said. "It's been three months. Why hasn't anybody done anything?"
AB Says: As I have said before, if I was left behind like these people, I would come back and haunt people BAD!!
After the funeral, Serenity Gardens funeral director Darryl Cammack presented the family of Rosa Villarreal with a cannister he said held the ashes of the 50-year-old East Chicago woman.
Family members learned in May that Cammack had apparently left Villarreal's body to rot, beside three other cadavers, in the funeral home after his license was suspended in 2006.
"He just closed up his business and forgot about my mom," said Marisol Villarreal, the oldest of Rosa Villarreal's five children. But now I've got to think about her body, sitting in there for three years, in the winters and the summers."
Villarreal, her brothers and father filed a lawsuit against Cammack and Serenity Gardens in Lake County Superior Court on Tuesday morning, claiming Cammack committed fraud, theft of services, breach of contract and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional stress.
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter still is reviewing evidence from an investigation of the funeral home and Cammack by the Gary Police and the Lake County Coroner's Office. Cammack could not be reached for comment.
"It's been three months, and there have been no criminal charges against Mr. Cammack," said Daniel Vinovich, the Highland attorney representing the Villarreals.
"No one has yet tried to hold this man accountable. The family wants some answers."
The Villarreals were referred to Serenity Gardens by a cousin after Rosa Villarreal died Aug. 1, 2006. The family struggled to come up with the $1,705 Cammack requested for the cremation and a memorial service at the funeral home, on 21st Avenue in Gary.
When they arrived at Serenity Gardens, Villarreal said the air conditioning wasn't functioning, and the entire building had a moldy, stuffy smell. Cammack, the only employee they saw in the building, told them the air conditioning had failed because of a power outage in the neighborhood.
After the funeral, they had to call him repeatedly before he finally dropped off the ashes, in a coffee-can-like container in a velvet bag. They later saved up for an urn.
When she heard about the bodies discovered in the funeral home in May, after a church group that bought the building at a tax sale first came to inspect its purchase, Marisol Villarreal said she immediately feared the worst.
Rosa Villarreal's body was identified by dental records and by a scarf she was wearing at her funeral. Marisol Villarreal said she wept when Coroner David Pastrick showed her the scarf. Pastrick refused to let her see her mother's body, which was decomposed.
"I wanted to see. I wanted to be there when they cremated her. I don't want to go through this again," she said.
Dispelling earlier reports, Pastrick on Tuesday confirmed the ashes the Villarreals received in 2006 were human remains.
"Whose remains, we don't know. We'll never know," he said.
Rosa Villarreal and three other bodies found at Serenity Gardens were cremated, free of charge, by Solan-Pruzin funeral home in Schererville.
Marisol Villarreal has a new urn that holds what she is now confident are her mother's remains.
"I just want him to pay for what he did," she said. "It's been three months. Why hasn't anybody done anything?"
AB Says: As I have said before, if I was left behind like these people, I would come back and haunt people BAD!!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Judge backs Michael Jackson trustees over mom
Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine, has lost her bid to be named a third trustee of her late son's estate, the Associated Press reports. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff signed an order allowing the named trustees to go ahead with their administration of Jackson's affairs over Mrs. Jackson's objections.
AB says: If she ends up keeping the kids she gets 80% of the take. 40 for her and 40 for the kids. She is not a business woman and Joe must be putting her up to this. Take the money that is handed to you (like you and pops have been doing all these years) and let the businessmen go to work to keep things "full steam ahead". Right after MJ passed, Papa Joe had moving trucks clearing out the rented house, where is that stuff gonna end up??
AB says: If she ends up keeping the kids she gets 80% of the take. 40 for her and 40 for the kids. She is not a business woman and Joe must be putting her up to this. Take the money that is handed to you (like you and pops have been doing all these years) and let the businessmen go to work to keep things "full steam ahead". Right after MJ passed, Papa Joe had moving trucks clearing out the rented house, where is that stuff gonna end up??
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