HOLE. Celebrity sin! Oooh, peeps are up in arms over the sacrilegious version of Hole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’ with an AI Kurt Cobain singin’ lead vox. Joke is, if this was ‘unearthed’ some years back as a rough demo or somethin’, it would be treated like gold dust! Me, I don’t entirely hate it; Kurt’s larynx over a song that sounds like the bastard offspring of Joan Jett an’ Cheap Trick isn’t completely offensive to my senses. In fact, it’s kinda interestin’ in an experimental way. But, yeah, of course it’s gonna get irritatin’ knowin’  such sonic-Frankenstein nightmares are gonna start explodin’ all over the gaff. Changed me mind – I hate it! Let’s keep it REAL! I mean, what’s next – cartoon girls givin’ opinions!

THE HIVES. Björn again! Blimey, I’d almost forgot this Swedish bunch. They could really pound out a toon! Anyways, they’re back after a zillion years with the stormin’ ‘Bogus Operandi’ from forthcoming’ album ’The Death Of Randy Fitzimmons’. Yep, you read that right. And, there appears to be some rebirth/zombie action goin’ down in the suitably bonkers accompanyin’ vid to ‘Bogus Operandi’, which all seems to lead to their new lightnin’ bolt look. HA! Talkin’ o’ looks, I remember an old K! feature, where the band were wearin’ their former regulation white jackets for the photo session but the photographer was ordered NOT to shoot ‘em from behind…as they had PEGS up their backs to make the jackets more figure huggin’. Sharp!..

blink-182. Life in Uranus. By the time you read this, the first blink opus featurin’ Tom DeLonge since 2011, will be completed.  In the can. Good to go.  And, reckons DeLonge, quite humbly, ”It’s the best album we’ve ever made!”. Still, y’gotta wonder how Tom’s return will affect the search for proof of UFOs and alien probes! An’ talkin’ of probes – what’s UP with drummer Travis Barker advertisin’  Liquid Death mountain water and enemas! Claims he in the ad, the majority of his health an’ success is down to usin’ Liquid Death…’”In my asshole”!? WTF? I, of course, had to get to the bottom of this, aaaand…it turns out it’s all just a fun gag. A fun gag that’ll cost ya $182(clever…) for an enema kit and a Liquid Death signed by Travis. A kit which, by the way, is strongly recommended you do not actually utilise! What a cheek! $182? Me, I’d pay twice that for an alien probe signed by Tom.

FALL OUT BOY. Fears for tears. First blink-182 shovin’ liquid up their behinds…an’ now FOB are shovin’ it into product! They had a buncha copies of recent release ’So Much(For) Stardust’ pressed in… Crynyl. There is fancy cience jargon attached, but, in a nutshell, they claim they extracted their tears an’ whacked ‘em in the grooves. Say FOB of this process,”When you listen to a Crynyl release, you’re not just listening to what the artist played, you’re feeling what they felt”. Cried? I nearly laughed. I mean, ‘tears’? Kiss put blood in their comic book. BLOOD!

Okay, let’s talk screen interpretations of Batman.

S’funny, I liked Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne, but, his Batman just never did it for me. Clunky fights with no sense of impact. Natch, the annoyin’ throat-cancer Bat-voice didn’t help, either.

As for Pattinson in The Batman…I’m still tryin’ to get into it. Some of it, especially the scenes with Bats an’ Gordon, just draaaag. To get into a mind frame to watch this film, I have to slow my metabolism down to that of a sloth in a coma!  Catwoman is cool, though, and I liked the flyin’ squirrel scene. But, to pull off the the ninja thing, Pattinson really needs to get some stealthier footwear.