We start out with a story brought to our attention by Byron Beck and unfortunately it's a sad one. Jay Reatard is dead. The aptly, albeit retrospectively inappropriately named Goner Records writes, "It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard. Jay died in his sleep last night. We will pass along information about funeral arrangements when they are made public." He was 29 years old. Reatard was found in his home at 3:30 am yesterday morning. I have to admit I’m curious about this “died in his sleep” explanation. I don’t know this guy at all so I don’t know if he was the hard partying type that gets high on whatever powdered substance happens to get past around, but considering that the man chose to get famous by branding himself as “Reatard” for all time I would have to guess that judgment impairing substances probably played a large part in the guy’s life. No word on what, if any plans he had for disposal of his mortal remains, but it is speculated that if he is interred in a burial plot that the grave marker will probably be popular amongst camera wielding stoners who want to get a picture making hurr-durr faces next to the big “Reatard” sign. It is possible that his family (most likely his mother) will choose not to let their child to be known for eternity as Reatard and choose instead to mark his grave with his birth name, Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.
And either Shavo from System is fucking dumb of he’s a fucking liar, and possibly both. See, when a guy with millions of fans, whose band is for all intents and purposed broken up, goes on his favorite social networking site and says “Are u guys ready for some System?” one would expect that he’s doing that to tease the reunion of his band. Right? I mean, if I walked up to Byron and said, “Are you ready for some cock in your mouth?” he would expect, no demand, that I immediately drop my pants and begin punishing his tonsils with my salty glans. But if I failed to produce all four inches of my German engineering, saying instead, “Dude, I was just asking. I didn’t mean mine. I simply mean are you ready, in general, for a big veiny wiener in your mouth,’ he would feel teased, cheated and used. And that’s pretty much what Shavo just did to his fans. He dangled System’s dong and then yoinked it back through the pee hole just as the fans were reaching out to grab it. On Tuesday he tweeted, "Are u guys ready for System?" The implication is clearly System is coming back out hiatus. He later wrote, "About my 'are u guys ready for System?'... I'm not sayin we are back but, if so, U guys ready? Sorry for gettin u guys amped. I'm just seeing."
