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Josh Homme Responds To Recent Allegations
By Skwerl
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
So we posted a video last week, of Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme brutally verbally assaulting a teenager who threw a shoe at him. He used the word “faggot” a lot, and was accused of being a homophobe, despite being in a band called Queens Of The Stone Age and promising to sodomize the little bastard.
Today, we came across this article on Stereogum featuring a letter from Homme, addressed to members of “The Peanut Gallery:”
Some journalists & citizens on the internet are wondering: Q? Am I a homophobe because I included a slang for gay in with other “acceptable” curse words during a verbal lashing I gave a young concertgoer, after being hit by his shoe, during a show the other day? A= Nope. My gay family & friends, as well as myself, KNOW I am not a homophobe. For years now I’ve known gay is not a choice; one’s skin color doesn’t determine one’s intelligence level; red hair doesn’t mean you’re someone’s stepchild. You see, it’s not the words, it’s their intent. I never said, nor suggested, that being gay is wrong, but apparently, based on your outrage to my flu-infused rant, you do! By that logic… I also told that young whipper snapper I’d have anal sex with him… How can I possibly reconcile these opposing viewpoints? I called him a pussy too. Does it mean I hate our one world’s collective vagina? I never have been nor intend to be politically correct. That’s your cross to bear. To me, that PC world would suck more shit than the porta-potty truck at Glastonbury. Homophobic? I’m in Queens Of The Stone Age for crissake… You say, “So. Your band name doesn’t prove anything.” Maybe not. But it’s a helluv a lot more definitive than the logic of some watchdog… (sorry canine-American, canine-European, canine-African, canine-Australian & canine-Asian) moralist, keeping score from pure perfectionville? If your glass house is squeegeed that clean & you need to do something, do what the great philosopher Bill Hicks once suggested: Forgive me. Or don’t. I’m not asking for either, OK? I think you should let both of your cheeks go loose so the stick will drop out. Either way I expect that you’ll soon find another injustice from your chair, then roll to your bullhorn & point it out to the rest of us… Because you’re so above it all. Or if you’ll allow me to translate a wish of mine into your PC lingo:
Will you please go have consensual sex with yourself.
Pretty please with all natural, carbon offset sugar on top.
Sincerely,
Mr. Missundastood
A.K.A. Joshua, Baby Duck, Jho
Head Choreographer & Do Stuff Corporation’s pansexual spokes-thing
Holy shit. While I agree with him, he reeeaaaly needs to care less about some dude on the internet and worry more about writing good songs and banging groupies.
nah it was definitely an awesome response. carbon offset sugar – fucking golden. the guy’s right. people on the internet need to care less about what some rock guy said to an asshole in a crowd and worry more about fresh air . lol
rock on, josh
Yeah, I support Josh Homme on this one, like I said in my response to everyone crying over his reaction to that dipshit. The guy was disrespected while he was sick. When you’re sick with a 102 fever, you aren’t thinking clearly, your head is pounding, everything is sore that can be sore, and then you’re hit with an object. On top of that, you are supposed to be singing with more than likely a sore throat, and phlegm dripping down the back of your throat.
The guy goes again and performs, and then gets disrespected by some dumb fuck shoe tosser.
If you think what happened to that kid was bad, imagine the response from the crowd if the show ended right then because of that kid. Can you say, torn to pieces by a mob? I know I’d be pissed that my hard earned money that I spent on that show was just wasted, and I’d want a piece of him.
Josh is a genius , bill hicks was a genius
and i would say checkmate.
Hicks’ genius was not recognized until after he died.
I remember the first time I listened to one of his full length albums. I was walking through Ann Arbor during 2004 and listening to him on earphones when he said a few profundities, lost the crowd, then said, “just calm down. We’ll get to the dick jokes soon, I promise. We’ll all float down on a big pink veinous inflated cock for a safe landing. I promise.”
I laughed so hard I stopped walking and almost fell over. It wasn’t just the material– it was the way he said it.
[...] Here at Antiquiet, we’ve always been able to count on Josh Homme’s misbehavior for the occasional free meal. He helped put us on the map by calling Jimmy Iovine out by name and telling us Interscope sucks his dick in an interview we did with him back when we were just a blog that had to lie about who we were to get stories we didn’t deserve. Hilarity ensued. Then we jumped on a video of him calling some 15 year old a faggot, and got a bunch of shit for supporting what we considered good old fashioned rock star insensitivity. Once again, hilarity ensued. [...]
I would have kicked the brats liver in!Dont throw shit LEAVE!QUEENS NEED TO COME BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA!JOSH DID THE RIGHT THING,THE CROWD SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE!LIKE RIPPING THE MYLEE CYRUSS T-SHIRT OFF HIM AND CRAMMING IT UP HIS ASS!