For those of you out there who set a couple hundred bucks aside every year to throw down on tickets to go see Ozzfest, you may be a little short this year. You’re going to need a little more for traveling expenses. About two grand in traveling expenses. Sure, oil is approaching 101 bucks a barrel, but gas prices aren’t exactly the issue. It’s more the venue change. For the last few years, Ozzfest has been held at the White River Amphitheater and before that, it was at the Gorge. Now it’s a little farther out… like Texas. Dallas to be exact. Rumors are suggesting that Ozzfest will be what’s called a destination festival this year, like Lollapalooza has been for the last few years. After getting kicked in the balls and losing money for years, Lollapalooza discovered that the only way to make any money was to do the whole thing in one shot with a bunch of huge names. Sharon’s little experimental Adfest last year, where they tried to offset the zero ticket price by getting corporations to sponsor every blade of grass in the field, was a total failure. And with the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour gobbling up Slipknot, Disturbed Dragonforce and Mastodon, Sharon is having trouble pulling together a line-up. But if they do a one-off, it’s a lot easier for big acts to commit. So if you’re one of those folks who likes to brag that they’ve been to every Ozzfest, you may want to look into getting a second job to keep your streak alive.

There’s a new rumor about Zombie’s next movie project. First it was a remake of C.H.U.D. and then it was remaking Conan the Barbarian. The latest rumor has him adapting a comic he put out with comics writer Steve Niles a couple of years ago called “The Nail.” This rumor has the stench of plausibility on it because Niles wrote “30 Days of Night,” which was just recently turned into a not-too-terrible horror flick. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com, the name of “The Nail” has been changed to "Tyrannosaurus Rex" and is about a semi-professional wrestler named Tyrannosaurus Rex who is being pursued by a "biker gang from hell."

Zombie has not made any public announcements about "Tyrannosaurus Rex" but apparently it has a tentative release date of August 28, 2009.

Say what you will about Noel Gallagher of Oasis: attention whoring jackass, ponce-y prima donna, fratricidal psychopath, all of those are washed away by the sheer splendiferous act of selling his house. It’s not so much the sale as it is the reason. Apparently, Noel Gallagher is putting his roughly 10 million dollar villa in the tropical party paradise of Ibiza up for sale because he can’t stand living next to James Blunt knowing that he is in there making terrible music.  

The Sun newspaper writes, “Noel has been going to Ibiza every summer for years. But he’s fed up of hearing James Blunt bang on about Ibiza like he owns the place. It’s taken the charm out of it for him so he’s put his villa up for sale. It’s close to Blunt’s place, and he [Gallagher] says he can’t stand the thought of Blunt writing crap tunes up the road.”