I always thought it was a joke that Canadians elected Harper in the first place. I'm not up to speed on Canadian politics like I should, but all I needed to hear was that knowing all he knew, he'd still go into Iraq if it was up to him to know that he's a complete and utter moron. I'm not sure what George Bush or the CIA knew when invading Iraq. Did they really have the intelligence that said they had WMDs? Was it just for oil? Sure, it was dumb either way, but at least Bush had to make the decision to go in and like anything, there's always a chance to fuck up. Harper KNOWS it's a fuck up and still would go in. That's horrible.

Yeah, I'm not sure how the hell there are so many Axl supporters left; and I'm even more amazed at how he essentially talks shit on them all and they still act as though every second song he does is Bohemian Rhapsody. I respect Axl's music, but as a person that guy has more screws loose than damned near anyone.

I think Slash as a whole has no right to be talking shit on anyone else breaking the law. It's kind of like he said in his book, "Steven Adler was kicked out of GNR for drugs? Are you kidding me?!" That's what I would think of when I'd hear Slash lecturing anyone (he even stole candy during the UYI tour, and surely he had enough money then). But it's fair to give him some dues, I think his main issue was having the songs out before the album was even announced. But, those things happen when your album should have been out, at the latest, 2001. "You can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me", basically. It's like that with nearly everyone, so I don't hold it against him too much.

But, the sins Slash has committed have been beaten tenfold by Axl Rose, and I don't get why the hell people are divided on Guns N Roses of all bands. And the anti-Slash people are so confusing because in terms of Axl and Slash, even if you hate Slash, there's no way you can look down on him more than Axl. If you hate Slash because he kicked you dog, well, all right. But people calling him a sell-out or saying he never exits his "comfort zone" come across as crazy as Axl himself. Based on most of their accounts, if he did leave his comfort zone it'd be selling out, and if he stayed in this "comfort zone", he's just a hack playing the same rock tunes over and over because there's nothing more to accomplish in Rock N Roll music, apparently, unless you play over phony drum tracks? True artists play what they want to play, not what you, me or anyone else expects them to play.

On a side note, I was at Chapters one day (in a rare, rare fucking visit!) and I saw an unauthorized bio of Axl Rose and the other was none other than Mick Wall. I was like... what the fuck!?

I would just like to guess that he still wants to rock n' roll and if he only plays ballads, that's not going to happen. Not to mention so many of them are so damn long. Great, but long. I am actually siding with Axl on this one, and I'm gonna steal the Michael Jordan to the Max analogy of things for this statement. There's gonna be a lot of people in the crowd who are going to be having a one-time Axl Rose/Guns N' Roses experience that night, they will never have the chance to see the guys play again. And for that reason, he needs to stick to the hits and play the rock that made the group famous. He's got a short, but strong back catalogue and I think in his mind it's just a matter of the rock on UYI being interchangeable with the rock on AFD, but AFD's is all the more powerful. Plus, I think the CD stuff is similar to UYI, so he's devoting 1/2 the show to rocking hard and 1/2 to the new epic stuff.

Shit, the last thing I'm going to do is sit here and cry about great songs like Out Ta Get Me and My Michelle. Would I love to hear Estranged or Civil War? Sure, but to me it's not something worth getting my panties in a bunch over and he's gotta fit the CD stuff in there somewhere.

You know, is anyone 100% certain that Walmart wouldn't sell it with a sticker? I'm in Canada but it just dawned on me that about 4 years ago I re-bought Use Your Illusion II there and it definitely filled my ears with those familiar naughty words.