anyone see the idaily news today?

[unruly]

bob is on the cover of the showtime part

really bad picture


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[Wizekrak]

nope...i dont read the daily news...can you scan it?

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~~all the crazy things i do, i do sober~~

[unruly]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
if you make my window thingie
maybeeeee
lol

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[Wizekrak]

oh damn...it's gotten away from me...i'll do it tonight....i'm soooo sorry...

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~~all the crazy things i do, i do sober~~

[Wizekrak]

ok, i think that the pic in black and white will come out better than in color...is that ok?

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~~all the crazy things i do, i do sober~~

[Wizekrak]

unruly - you are soooo gonna lub me


i need you to emal me your home addy so i can mail them out tomorrow (yea, i said THEM)

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[momrock]

Which daily news and how can I get/see one?

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LET'S TALK ABOUT SEXXX!!!

~~Escape with me~~Momrock's Escape

[Wizekrak]

here's the link:
http://nydailynews.com/today/New_Yor...c/a-132311.asp

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[Wizekrak]

and the article:

Some Dude Over the Rainbow
Kid Rock's pot of gold contains
rap-rock celebrity and Pamela Anderson

Kid Rock, one of music's boldest spokesmen for monster trucks, cheap beer and trailer parks, would like to speak up for kids with trust funds.

"Just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they're not as cool as a working-class kid," Rock says, as he sits 27 floors above the ground in a tony Manhattan high rise. "Even some kid that gets a trust fund, he can't choose that. I have the same respect for the guy who runs GM as the guy who works in the auto plant."

He has good reason to. Rock, who grew up as Bob Ritchie, comes from what he describes as "the top of the middle class." While the singer-rapper has recreated himself as a fun-loving Joe Six Pack plucked from the assembly lines of Detroit, in real life, his dad ran a successful car dealership in the Michigan suburbs.


Kid Rock rocks out.
Yet, by his teens, Rock turned his back on his father's plans.

"I could have taken the easy route and gone to college and maybe went to work for my dad selling cars," explains the 30-year-old. "But I went totally against the grain and followed my heart. My dad said, 'If you want to go around the ghetto all night with your turntables go ahead, you're not going to get any help here.'

"So I [did] and became a success. Maybe that's why I feel closer to the working class. I worked hard for what I've got."

In so doing, Rock proved two key tenets of the American Dream: Persistence pays off and you have an inalienable right to reinvent yourself.

Now, however, Rock must put those lessons to a new test. This week he faces the daunting task of trying to follow up his 10 million-selling breakthrough album, 1998's "Devil Without a Cause." With typical, nose-thumbing pluck, he has titled the new record "Cocky."

At the same time, Rock needs to keep fans interested in his public persona, which keeps getting more cartoonish ? especially since last April, when he began a romance with an equally exaggerated symbol of lowbrow Americana, Pamela Anderson. Together they represent a comic-book version of a blue-collar fantasy: like Li'l Abner characters reborn for the age of Bud Lite.


Kid Rock chills out.
In person, Rock comes equipped with all the appropriate macho moves. Decked out in black leather jeans and a biker T-shirt, the lanky, long haired musician chain-smokes from the start of the interview to the finish. He milks this image in such new anthems as "Drunk in the Morning," "I'm a Dog" and "You Never Met a Motherf----r Quite Like Me."

In one song, he jokes about meeting President Clinton while half-stoned. "That's true," he says with a laugh. "I was invited by one of his aides to the White House for a dinner to celebrate the Brady anti-gun bill. Which was great, since I'm into shooting guns."

This isn't entirely a boast. Both Rock's demeanor and his music communicate a self-deprecating wink that lets you know his bad-boy identifications are as much self-parody as fantasy. In an age when hip-hop stars get into shootouts just to prove they can "keep it real," Kid Rock shows it can be just as valid to keep it fake ? to have fun pretending to be the character of your dreams.

"You have to be able to laugh at yourself," Rock says. "I think all of this is hilarious."

At the same time, the new album finds him trying to take a few stabs at seriousness. He's singing more, and doing it better.

"I always knew what sounded good," he says. "The trick was getting my voice to do it. I got a lot more confident after singing on so many live shows next to cats like [Aerosmith's] Steven Tyler, Hank Williams Jr. and [ZZ Top's] Billy Gibbons."

He has also downplayed hip-hop in favor of country-influenced rock. "How many times can I run around and say 'My name is Rock! I'm the greatest!'?" he asks. "I do it a lot on this record ? maybe too much. But I know my band is more talented than just those elements.

"And I'd like to consider myself a songwriter, even though I know I'm not reinventing the wheel. Three chords is all right with me. I'm just listening to more classic rock radio than hip hop these days. And I listen to more country records than metal. Maybe I'm getting old."

Southern Influence
If nothing else, the result has given Rock a point of distinction. While most other rock-rap acts draw on heavy metal, Kid takes his cues from '60s and '70s rock. He sees himself as a successor to swamp-boogie bands ? from J. Geils to Foghat ? and to the hick chic of Southern rock.

"All that outlaw music I love, the Marshall Tuckers, the Waylon Jennings, and of course Lynyrd Skynyrd," he says. "To me, that's what the Stones wanted to be ? the poor white boys from the South who grew up around Muscle Shoals."

Kid also tries to recall the steel-belt rock of his Detroit roots, from Bob Seger to Grand Funk Railroad. He began drawing on that sound and swagger from his very first, independently released recordings in the early '90s.


Kid Rock rocks out again.
He put out three complete albums (one a bomb on Jive Records). But at the same time he toured enough to build a grassroots following. That led, in the late '90s, to a contract with Atlantic Records. Last year, the company put together a best-of record of his early music, along with some re-recordings of his seminal demos, and dubbed it "The History of Rock." It went on to sell more than 2 million copies.

But that mainly solidified his success within the music world. Rock only crossed over to the realm of household names when he began dating America's most insanely buxom pinup. He and Ms. Anderson first collided at the "VH1 Divas Live" taping at Radio City Music Hall and Rock says they've been inseparable since.

He admits the connection seems almost too perfect to be true: "She's the girl who says, 'I'm wild! I'm crazy! I love guys!' And I'm the guy who says, 'I'm wild! I'm crazy! I love girls!' Gink!!! It's only natural they're going to link up.

"We have a ball with it. Goin' on the red carpets, how could it not be fun? Anybody who says this is a nightmare, people prying and getting shots of you picking your nose.?It's all right with us."

Yet he says their love connection isn't just made for the cameras.

"I've opened myself up and decided to dive head on and let it all out. We love each other so much we've decided to go slow. We could rush out and [get married] but, for the kids, we have to get them settled into this whole thing."

Anderson has to consider her two sons (ages 5 and 3), while Rock has one (age 8). He admits his bodacious image doesn't exactly jibe with his role as dad.

"I always say family is what's really important," he says, "at which point people always say, 'What do you mean? You're drunk half the time, running around with your pants down!' Well, I do do that sometimes and I always will.

"But when I go to parent-teacher conferences I don't show up with my pimp hat and a Pabst Blue Ribbon in my hand. I put on a nice shirt and be respectful. That's what I have to be for my son."

Ladie's Man
And what does he have to be for Anderson? How does he reconcile his committed relationship with lyrics like: "Different girl every night at the hotel/I ain't seen the sun in three damn days." Or his recorded claims that he "gets more a-- than Mark McGrath" (the stud muffin from Sugar Ray).

"I'll say, 'I like big, cornfed Midwestern hos,' but that's funny," Rock says. "I try not to take it too far. I don't disrespect my mother and I wouldn't allow my son to disrespect girls. You open the door for a lady."

No wonder Rock has arisen as a kind of benign answer to Emimem. As Rock himself puts it: "We rap, we're white, we're from Detroit." And they both have a middle finger-in-the-air attitude.

But the long-haired rapper says the mean stuff "isn't really me. My mom says it best [about Emimem]. She says, 'That poor Marshall. I see him on all these TV shows and he has no one to thank so he just gets up there and drops his pants. He doesn't have a mother. I feel bad for him.'"

In contrast, Rock lives just 15 minutes from his parents in suburban Detroit. His success in the last three years has also helped him make peace with his father's decision to cut off all financial support when he was younger and pursuing a career in showbiz.

"At the time I was cursing him, yelling, 'Help me out,'" Rock explains, as he stretches out the sofa. "But now I'm glad that it was that way. I paid my dues and and I got my dream. And that helps me appreciate my success that much more."

Spoken like a true American son ? of any class.

Kid Rock

*Born: Robert James Ritchie, Jan. 17, 1971, in Romeo, Mich.

*Parents: Bill, car dealership owner, and Susan Ritchie, homemaker; Robert is the third of their four children.

*Son: Robert Ritchie Jr. (known as Junior), age 8.

*Companion: actress Pamela Anderson.

*Name comes from: "Watch that white kid rock," as shouted at him when he deejayed in Detroit's all-black tenements as a teenager.

*Records: "Grit Sandwiches for Breakfast" (1990), "The Polyfuze Method" (1992), "Fire It Up" (EP, 1994), "Early Mornin' Stoned" (1996), "Devil Without a Cause" (1998), "Cocky" (2001).


Original Publication Date: 11/18/01