Love posted a long, rambling, incoherent screed to MySpace last year that seemed to say Adams owed her money for production of his album Rock n Roll. Adams responded indirectly and cryptically at the time. But now Adams has decided to set the record straight, after Love last week posted another barrage on Twitter, writing, "anytime 'ole Ryan... wants to see his bills, he can, I'm right here" — and after we erroneously said Adams was Love's "ex-boyfriend" when we reported that barrage,

Adams' publicist sent us the following statement from the singer:

"I have never had any romantic, personal or financial involvement with Courtney Love. She is confusing me with her ex, who produced my Rock n Roll record, which was financed solely by Universal Music."

Courtney Love confused about her commitments and losing track of all her money? Do you really expect us to buy that?

(We've updated the original item.)

This is the second book for Adams, singer, human Wise potato chip mascot, and wife of Mandy Moore. The first one Infinity Blues had five chapters with the fourth chapter entitled Chapter 11. Adams' prose is like a Terence Koh's installation: shiny gold covered shit. But if you couldn't get enough of Infinity Blues perk up your titties.

Now Hello Sunshine is available for pre-order. And for only $50, you get a signed chapbook from Mr. Adams called Pink Magic. Gross. Here's what Mr. Adams has to say:

This collection was a beautiful way for me to wrap up my narrative verse style of writing before I move into writing short stories and novels. Maybe this book really is more about my connection to my senses and to the romantic. Where I was scared to read Infinity Blues after I wrote it, Hello Sunshine makes me want to eat ice cream. This book is about, quite simply, how it might feel to surrender to a love. It will reinforce everyone's fear that I am smarter than them."

If you'd like to pre-order the book, go to Akashic Books. If you'd like to gleek on Mr. Adams, you'll have to go to LA to do it.

Adams said in an interview with the book-industry publication Shelf Awareness that he tried, he really did, to love Gotham, but the city broke his heart. Or, more specifically, those sadists at the New York Times broke his heart:

I love, love, love donuts, skateboarding... Los Angeles...

I used to live in New York City for a long time. I fought like hell for the city when people left for Brooklyn and dumped every penny I could into the mission and the museums. I got shat on by the New York Times for long enough so I moved. I will always love David Letterman and 2nd Ave Deli forever.

Presumably the Times' description of the song "Sylvia Plath" as "lame" this past November was a sore point. And perhaps the rocker did not care to be called sometimes "overblown... an artist who does not believe strongly in self-editing" in a concert preview.

We don't want to make the whole "New York Media Hates Me" situation worse, so we'll just note without commentary that Adams also told Shelf Awareness that the book that changed his life was Roget's Thesaurus. Interesting.

It's also interesting that Adams said he writes because

It feels like the noble thing to do in a world of fake smiles, cowards and so, so many undocumented miracles if standing in the middle of parking lots and laughing for no reason was one.

Actually, Los Angeles takes its parking lots very seriously, and standing in the middle of one and cackling randomly is grounds for calling the cops, or worse. Come back home before it's too late, Adams.

Adams used to be a randomly oversharey blogger, sometimes a train wreck but generally adorable. He dated Moore, then did something dumb and wasn't dating Moore.

Then he totally promised to change in order to get the singer/actress back and/or keep her back:

So probably Doree's Observer article this week was correct: The best way to improve a boyfriend is to break up with him.

To check in on whether getting back together with said boyfriend is a good idea, check in with Adams in, oh, ten years or so. (You'll probably be able to do so via his oversharey blog.)

• Madonna sought counseling to be "less domineering" in relationships. But it had to be at a Kabbalah center, in New York, with this one elite rabbi, and absolutely no one else in the room. The rabbi "tweak[ed] her tikkun," like he was some kind of Yankee. Then Madonna had to start riding horses so she could dominate some other sort of living creature.
• The only appropriate way to make up for beating your girlfriend and setting her hair on fire is inviting her to be your date at Sundance. Amirite or what, Courenay Semel!? [P6]
• Say what you will about Observer publisher Jared Kushner's father Charles, like that he set his sister's husband up with a prostitute, filmed it, and tried to blackmail him. Whatever. But Kushner's grandmother? Killed actual Nazis. Possibly indirectly, in a kind of collective group effort. But still! [P6]
• Ryan Adams can't tour after March 20 because he has listening issues. Sorry, hearing. HEARING issues. [Daily Star]
• If you don't stop saying Barack Obama secretly supports Caroline Kennedy, Rahm Emanuel will not-so-secretly kill and devour you, for breakfast. [P6]
• The New Kids on the Block are getting their own, totally non-cheesy, non-washed-out-old-rocker-featuring cruise. It's going to be awesome, so just shut up. [Gatecrasher]
• Bill Murray, who recently emerged from a nasty divorce involving allegations he was a sex addict, bought a bunch of women's shoes for some new lady friend at a New York boutique. [P6]
• The National Enquirer said Patrick Swayze's cancer spread to his lungs, but the actor told People it really was just pneumonia, and is almost gone. [Showbiz Spy]

• Hockey star Sean Avery takes initiative and scores an internship at Vogue, because he loves fashion so much. He gets to do traditional intern tasks such as posing shirtless. Later he makes lots of straight sex jokes.
• Ryan Adams, musician and romantic icon to Sheila, interns for BlackBook magazine, in order to get publicity for his album or something. His fashion does not noticeably change afterwards.
• And now, Kanye says he wants to intern for either Louis Vuitton or Raf Simons. He hopes to learn enough to actually release his own fashion line, something that was scheduled to happen several years ago.

  Three's a trend! [NYT; pic via. Kanye also dabbles in music, allegedly.]

Notice the last line there, "I miss you bug."

Sure, that could be Moore. But maybe it's Courtney Love, or Frances Bean Cobain, and Adams is about to pay both of them back and apologize WHILE HE STILL CAN (i.e. before Love stabs him to death). Stranger things have happened! (Disclaimer: A stranger thing has never happened.)

[Ryan-Adams.com]

• Tyra Banks is to dress as Michelle Obama for Harper's Bazaar, thus ending all rumors about the prospective first lady being kind of crazy and off the handle. [NYM, P6]
• Ryan Adams is supposedly a big jerk who doesn't bathe, Googles himself constantly and regularly verbally berated Mandy Moore. When presented with this allegation, this is the strongest his flack could muster: "I don't think any of that stuff is true." He sounds reasonably certain, people! [Post]
• Rosie O'Donnell left her apartment door open! Dead?? Robbed?? Or just hiding hiding from Julia Allison? [Julia Allison]
• Conrad Black's wife is shocked — SHOCKED — that Henry Kissinger was conniving and Machiavellian with regard to his friend Black. Who would expect that from Henry Kissinger?? [Post]
• The CEO of Blackbook admitted models are invited to his New York and Miami apartments for "shoots," but said he's not around when the come by. Or at least he wasn't around at the shoot in Miami. [P6]
• OK! and Us Weekly are supposedly sending "twice as many staffers" to the Democratic convention as to the Republican convention. Wait, OK! and Us Weekly are even going to the Republican convention? [Daily News]
• When she's not making Anderson Cooper blush, CNN's Erica Hill will now sometime tease other people on the CBS Early Show, apparently. [TV Newser]
• Someone's trying to develop a reality show about cougars in New York. [P6]

I've been dealing with the truth that i have at times been a bad example and/or glorified self destructive behavior...

Regardless of varied judgments as to my cultural relevance, i am thankfully alive and exercising my joy in creating...

i've realized and accepted that if people decide to dislike me, they're going to find reasons to justify disliking me. there's nothing i can do about that. that said, it still does pain me to be accused of fictional crimes against innocents or to be implicated in romantic gossip involving the possibly reality-challenged—however unreliable the source or outlandish the accusations. in the end, however, i know that i have never done or even meant anyone any harm.

anyway, the lives of public figures are so much more boring than anyone can imagine. honestly.

Oh Courtney. You did know, didn't you, that handing your Amex to a cute young rocker boy for a period of weeks would, someday, end with heated demands on your part and with him then basically saying, "I'm sorry you feel I owe you money, there's nothing I can do about that, life sure is crazy?!?"

Next time: limits. You know you could! We wish you would!

[Ryan Adams]

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Dante's Inferno

so it took 5 years YES to get all 29 amexes sorted through and an absolute time line, so WHAT?
have YOU ever willingly ever had 29 amexes? NO! me neither. and when you see a passing "Guitar Center" charge on an amex if your a musician do you double check it? NO! so i had to got o my production manager as that year was especially horrific, and we made a time line, you have NO idea what that few years was like for us, and you'll all get it soon, as its just a terrible descent into Dante's Inferno and because i simply do not suspect evil in people, so if some loser is making two albums unlikely as it seems at once and there's charges for entire outboard gear , fabulous dinners while i scrounged to feed my child - well sorry but I'm fucking PISSED, that's that. Ive tried to "communicate" but am i really supposed to call or write or have a lawyer call or write the former "Business Manager" who applied for the 74 Visas and 29 amexes and enabled all this insanity and say "oh out of the XX,XXXXX you stole would you mind paying for some suck ass indie album"
how does one do that?
i had a very heavy evening but since we are becoming terrifyingly great, I'm happy to oblige you Gawker people for about oh one more millisecond.
Otherwise we are amazing and I'm listening to Lanegan in the wee hours very loud, and he as always is so underrated and so fucking evocative and an American Treasure, and i wonder what hes up to. not an indie record which sucks, not anything he does.
NOT TRYING TO BE DYLAN!
just trying and succeeding i hope you'll agree at finding my voice
its alright ma, im only bleeding
Corkaroonie [Courtney's page]

Did she just quote Alice in Chains Faith No More [Just had a sec to check my old cassettes—Ian] in that last line there? I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think she's pretty dreamy.

Ryan Adams you fucking weasel. deal with it.858,00$
Current mood: determined

Listen this is another open letter
this to a beyond mediocre piece of shite- maybe its just my moment to fucking get the knives out of my back,
but in any case between 00 and 04 before ....well a dark pit of shit and fake names and insanity follows with lots and lots of people counting on Kookoo cherry not being able to prove things- and thats for another day- those people have not played chess with me.
But i was sitting with some people going thru the 29 american express cards that i didnt know existed that were connected to a few HUNDRED bank accounts,and there were all the bills for Ryan Adams worst record and one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history ironically called"Riock and Roll " and it was paid for by ME and mostly by my child.
and when i met Ryan we had a mild little flirtation, why not? but i made the deathly stupid decision to instead of just have very safe sex with him ( hes pretty dirty and man ive been around but im the virgin mary comparitevly) or make friends. no i fucking pimped my useless , ridiculaously terrible loser "Boyfriend" ( who ironically Edward Norton hates no one any more than this fuck and for good reason , yet Edwards OWN business manager put Barber up on West XXth street kitty corner from Edward, Barber could see into Edwards Apartment, and then he had his own Dean and Deluca account and an ABC Carpetand Home account and spent about 250,000 on furniture and another 600,000 dollars on travel, this loser who hasnt had a job since 98 - while Frances didnt have hardly enough to eat and i sure as hell didnt) i pimped Barber onto Ryan,"oooh hes a great producer"- maybe it wasbnt honourable0 i just wanted Barber gone, so maybe i used Ryan to get him gone,
yeah you listen to this shit im listening to my i tunes on right now who names a record "Rock n Roll" what assholes do that?

Got it? Me neither. Maybe Courtney can clear it up.

with these trebled up guitars my bandmate said sounded like "really horrific rem on steroids" all treble and compresssion and shit wirtten songs - but so what?
well on my amex atthat time the 858 but also from bank accounts....theres 200,000 thousnad dollar checks written to Barber for "comissions" ididnt even know where the fuck he was ! but here on Amex 28 is the entire invoice for Ryan- your ENTIRE album and meals and drugs and Hotels and outboard gear and wasted fabullous guitars STRAIGHT OUT OF FRANCES"S TRUST FUND
So you little shit, maybe you had NO IDEA right? is that why you used a hysterical voice mail of a very terrified and flipped out me- for your worst reviewed record and well deserved too, this record is shite totally one of the worst recordings ive ever heard yet Ryan you YOU spent 858,000 dolllars on this record of MY DAUGHTERS MONEY. so whats your paying me back plan? illbe in New York next week , you can start by working out your payment plan, because i will litiagate your thieving ass from here til eternity, your a thief and i used to think you had some subtsance to you then i find out your being managed or your money is by Victoria Blake? is that POSSIBLE? whata great PAL that lizard like cretin is t o you and i hope you had fun that week in :Jamaica" whilst more of my kids money was being shoved offshore- but thats not the point- Billy may have made my kid cry but i wasn't in the room - he's family and he always will be- he just laid his Billy trip on a person a little too young for it- I'm over it. but YOU RYAN, OWE FRANCES 858<000 dollars , so should isend the amex copies to Blake and he "staff"? because i would enjoy that very much,what a really good friend to leave you with someone whose been diagnosed as an "utter psychotic" by a professional foresnic psychiatrist.
This record sucks i mean WOW!
is this what youd like me to tell my kid a fraction of her money was stolen for this shite "Rock N Roll " cd shall i post the outboard gear and 4 seasons billls and fancy Nobu dinners, ahh so thats why you released two records at once where you getting paid a salary to let Gollum "produce" you cos we both know what a reall fucking genius that guy is, and this isnt about Gollum- hes inthe hands of the professionals, i walk away now knowing everything, all of it , its disgusting and its a fucking nuclear explosion of greed i dont think american history has ever seen but no other artist was ever involved in this scandalous vile behaviour ......but you were and i note to self; you suck on this record with your bile towards me, ande its gutless and cowardly and shit, and you know it,
Pay me back Ryan, Pay Frances back. an dtake my fucking voice off that piece of shit.

You can read the rest of the missive here, but I'd be remiss if I didn't include Courtney's sign off to Ryan: "still shooting smack? hows that going for you?"

Then I realized: not everything has to be blogged, you know?! (Even though I just did.)

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Southland Tales star Mandy Moore got a little bit bored while out comic book shopping with rumored boyfriend musician Ryan Adams. Sensing her boredom, Adams attempted to spice things up by making an inappropriate touch within Moore's bathing suit area. Moore took offense to the squeeze, but in an attempt to defend his actions, Adams said he thought it would be funny. Moore was quick to point out that they were in public and in a comic book store of all places; if he wanted to do something "fun," she thought it would be a better idea to go hiking than to just watch him look through old Alan Moore comic books. Adams corrected Moore and said "They're not comics, they're graphic novels" as she stomped off.

[Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin]