You may recall a few weeks back that I had a little misadventure with a bass guitar. Which didn't stop me from writing that week's It's My Party, despite the fact that I was doped to the gills on Vicodin and muscle-relaxers. However, what tiny amount of discretion I usually exhibit was completely disabled, and I was horrified to read that I had done a very nasty thing to a person I knew nothing about. A nasty deed that I've harangued folks publicly for doing to me. In a nutshell, I called a woman a starfucker. To that dedicated Catherine Wheel fan, I apologize. Yes, you were standing right in front of the band, singing along to every song with a stuffed animal perched in your bosom. And yes, you hung out after the show to meet the boys--but that in no way should have led me to make the lame proclamation that you were a groupie in the "traditional" sense. I was being an asshole, drugged or not.

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Okay! Now back to being a bitch. Former Stranger music editor Everett True aside (nah, scratch that), those who write for the British music press are famous for making hot gossip out of the smallest reference. (Where do you think I learned it from?) Well, Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor has had enough. While doing tour press for the Dandys' upcoming U.K. festival shows, Taylor blasted the press (and everyone else within range), sick of having his band singled out for their admissions to partaking in sex and drugs. "I've never met an English band that isn't mind-bogglingly fucked up on drugs, alcohol, and shitty sex, from the Charlatans to Longpigs to Blur..." ranted Taylor in the Sydney Morning Herald. "We have fun together and we have taste. We know where to draw the line. Most of those British bands are doing way more coke and 16-year-old girls than we've ever done." You tell 'em, Courtney. Speaking of partying, after their recent Crocodile show, the Dandys and about 50 of their friends and fans convened at Easy Street Records for an after-hours party that raged till the wee hours. The question remains whether coke and 16-year-old girls were in attendance, but there is no question as to whether Taylor's footwear was anything but flashy: ¡Zapatos rojos!

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Crappy movie aside (Revelations: Paradise Lost 2), the West Memphis Three are getting some assistance from our man-to-help-a-cause, Eddie Vedder. Vedder will be contributing to a benefit album to aid the three teenagers, who have been imprisoned on murder charges following the killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The CD, called Free the West Memphis Three, has been put together by another famous Eddie, Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti, and includes contributions from Nashville Pussy, Rocket from the Crypt, Mark Lanegan, Killing Joke, Joe Strummer, and Tom Waits.

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There's a hot rumor flying 'round about a team project between Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl has called Queens one of his favorite bands in several interviews, and now there's talk of the two bands collaborating on a track for the BBC.

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Speaking of Grohl's favorite musicians: Courtney Love is being sued again, this time for giving a woman a hernia through "infliction of emotional stress." On the set of her upcoming film Beat, Love called company supervisor Alexandra Cardenas a "puta," which we all know means "whore," and somehow this caused the woman to suffer a hernia.