Typically when artists start talking about chronic illness as the reason for cancelled or sub-par shows, it’s code for, “Our guitarist drinks a case of Glade air freshener spray every night and mellows his high by smoking a couple of Swiffers. As a result he spends most of his time having heated discussions with the individual dead skin cells on the back of his hands and therefore is incapable of remembering more than two chords at a time, which is unfortunate because all of our songs use three chords.” Now you know why they use code, because that’s a mouthful.

Yes, chronic illness usually means drug addiction in rock, but in the case of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, I think the only addiction he’s battling is the addiction to rock faces. Homme says he suffers from “chronic stupidity” and a little bronchitis. Homme says, "I have what doctors describe as chronic stupidity. So I'll just book six shows straight and play until I'm destroyed. There's people around me that are like, 'Let's slow our roll a little bit,'and I'm like 'No!'...I'm not in a hurry but I just wanna keep working."

The group almost canceled shows in Edinburgh and Leeds last week on its UK tour because of Homme's condition. At one point Josh Homme apologized by saying, "I took a lot of drugs before the show, but I obviously didn't take enough. I feel like I ruined the party."

A few months ago I told you how Marilyn Manson would be rolling out his own line of absinthe called… ehem… Mansinthe. Well, apparently it’s ass. I mean, above and beyond the level of ass that absinthe normally resides. For those of you who have never traveled outside of the country, it’s likely that you don’t know what absinthe tastes like because inexplicably it’s banned in the US. Well, as a point of reference, absinthe taste like if Nyquil made a black licorice flavor. And for as yummy as that sounds, in the world of assy licorice Nyquil, Manson’s was especially bad. A panel of critics at Epicurious.com rated the beverage and had this to say: “The Number One problem was the aroma, which some verbally compared to sewage water or swamp mud, but with the exception of a lone taster, the panel felt it wasn't really worth wading through the odor to get to mediocre flavor anyway."

Manson was directly involved in developing of his Mansinthe right down to it’s alcohol content, which is 66.6% proof.

And finally, all those warm fuzzy feelings radiating from the Police after their initial reunion apparently is beginning to turn to the malodorous, toxic cloud of “F--- you” that ended the band back in 1986.

It hasn’t got so bad that they’re willing to turn down cash, but they won’t be joining each other at Christmas after the tour wraps either. It was announced that when The Police go on the last leg of their reunion tour later this year, it will be the final time they ever play together.  The Police have 30 more dates left and when they finish those, the Police are finished.

The tour will likely end up earning the group about 340-million dollars, making it one of the top five highest-grossing tours of all time.