Daily Variety Dead – Exex Across H’w’d Scrambling to Figure Out What To Do For The First Hour Of Each Day
End of an era for Daily Variety
Lots of Hollywood honchos need to change their reading habits: The Tuesday edition is Daily Variety’s last.
Daily Variety has been a print publication for almost 80 years. Above, a Studio City newsstand has issues for sale. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / March 18, 2013)
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times
Leslie Moonves has had the same morning routine for decades.
“The first thing I do after getting out of the shower is pick up Daily Variety and have a cup of coffee,” the CBS Corp. chief executive said. “It’s a 30-year habit.”
That habit is ending for Moonves and lots of other Hollywood power players, movie and television stars, producers and publicists and thousands of wannabes: Daily Variety is ceasing as a print publication after almost 80 years. Tuesday’s edition is its last.
The decision shows that Daily Variety has had to grapple with the forces reshaping the industry it covers. Just as the entertainment business has had to adapt to changing media consumption habits, so have the outlets that cover it.
“They’re getting out of the buggy whip business,” said Stan Rosenfield, a veteran Hollywood publicist whose client list includes George Clooney and Robert De Niro.
Lore on THE FALL OF FIVE
Pittacus Lore Answers: The Fall of Five
To celebrate the announcement of Book 4′s title, Pittacus Lore has answered one of YOUR burning questions about The Fall of Five!
When we asked for fan questions on our Facebook page, many of you wanted to know more about Adamus. What happened to him after The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies? Will the Garde meet him in The Fall of Five?
Maple Brown Sugar Creme Brulee with Chocolate Bacon
Maple Brown Sugar Creme Brulee with Chocolate Bacon
From Carefree Station
1/2 cup pure maple syrup (not pancake syrup)
2 tablespoons maple extract
2 cups egg yolks (about 24 large yolks)
1 cup brown sugar
10 slices thick-cut bacon
1 cup melted dark chocolate
Strawberry and mint sprig, for garnish
In a large pot over medium, heat cream, maple syrup and maple extract. Remove pan from heat. Lightly beat egg yolks in a separate large bowl. A few tablespoons at a time, whisk cream mixture and brown sugar into egg yolks.
Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Place 8-10 ramekins in a large, shallow roasting pan. Add room-temperature water to the pan, filling to about halfway up the sides of the ramekins.
Pee-Pee Policia
Me against the world: Solo protestors clash with police
A protester urinates in front of a row of policemen during riots following the death of a 15-year-old boy in San Carlos de Bariloche June 18, 2010. According to local media, provincial government officials have confirmed that four police officers, involved in the incident which left the boy dead during an alleged robbery, have been removed from their posts. Three people died and at least 12 were injured during the clashes. REUTERS/Alejandra Bartoliche
Every novel to reach the number one spot on Publishers Weekly annual bestsellers list, starting in 1913.
100 years, 94 books
- 1913: The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
- 1914: The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright
- 1915: The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
- 1916: Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
- 1917: Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
- 1918: The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey
- 1919: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- 1920: The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
- 1921: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- 1922: If Winter Comes by A.S.M. Hutchinson
- 1923: Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
- 1924: So Big by Edna Ferber
- 1925: Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
- 1926: The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
- 1927: Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
- 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 1929: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- 1930: Cimarron by Edna Ferber
- 1931: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck *
- 1933: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
- 1934: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen*
- 1935: Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas
- 1936: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell*
- 1938: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- 1939: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Metal Weiwei
Inspired by Elton John, Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Has Made a Metal Album
Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei / Photo by Getty Images
‘Divina Commedia’ will spoof life in Beijing
Multifaceted Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei has recorded an album of hard-rock songs, and he’s going to ask for Elton John’s help in releasing the thing. According to England’s The Times, the Beijing resident and occasional ward of the state has written nine songs parodying life in his country and he’s employed local rock star Zuoxiao Zuzhou to back his singing with some searing licks.
The album, which he’s calling Divina Commedia (after a little ol’ book by Dante Alighieri), was inspired by a trio of influences: the raucous opening ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics; his 81-day disappearance following an arrest over possibly bogus tax evasion charges; and the “warm heart,” “passion,” and “expression” of John, who dedicated his February concert in the Chinese capital to Weiwei.
Devil’s Slide Returned To Paradise
Devil’s Slide tunnels along Highway 1 to open March 25
By Gary Richards
After nearly eight decades of dreaming and several years of digging, Caltrans announced Tuesday that the Highway 1 bypass at Devil’s Slide will open March 25.
This will be California’s first highway tunnel in nearly 50 years.
“Everyone is looking forward to the opening,” said state spokesman Bob Haus. “A lot of people have worked very hard for this day.”
The $439 million twin tunnels through the San Pedro Mountain are the first on a highway in California since the third bore of the Caldecott Tunnel in the East Bay opened in 1964. The area has been the site of eight landslides since Highway 1 opened in 1937, often closing the narrow two-lane road for months at a time and isolating motorists in Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton and Half Moon Bay.
In addition, every year there are serious and often deadly accidents on the narrow roadway, which twists so sharply that safe drivers are forced to slow to less than 25 mph.
Most Prized Possessions
Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions
by AMANDA GORENCE on MARCH 12, 2013 · 327 COMMENTS
Chiwa – Mchinji, Malawi
Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s projectToy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, “at their age, they are pretty all much the same; they just want to play.”
Le papier ne sera jamais mort
The Internet In A Day
From Out of Nowhere It Flies By Earth
Watch Live: City-Block-Size Asteroid Comes Out of Nowhere and Flies By Earth
BY ADAM MANN
An asteroid roughly 64 to 140 meters wide — about the size of a city block — will be zipping past the Earth today, and you can watch a live show (above) of the event from the Slooh Space Camera consortium starting at 12:45 p.m. Pacific/3:45 p.m. Eastern.
The asteroid, officially called 2013 ET, was discovered only on Mar. 3. It will be coming within less than 1 million km of our planet, about 2.5 times the distance between the moon and the Earth. This distance means the object poses no danger but is a very close shave astronomically speaking.
The asteroid’s close approach barely a week after its discovery follows a busy month for things falling from the sky. On Feb. 15, the largest meteor to hit the Earth in a century exploded over Russia just as another asteroid made a record-setting close approach. With the world’s attention fixing more and more on space rocks, this flyby highlights how big and potentially deadly objects can appear without
(CSCO) (GOOG) (ADBE) (AAPL) (EBAY) (POT)
Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot
Photograph by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Being a computer coder takes a physical toll. The long hours sitting at a keyboard can cause back and wrist pain. You can run to a pharmacy and pick up some Advil, or if you’re in Silicon Valley, you can drop by the Palliative Health Center for some Sour Diesel. Palliative Health is a medical marijuana dispensary, one of many in San Jose, Calif. Inside, iPads are mounted on pedestals so patients can scroll through and check prices and availability of Sour Diesel, Chem Dog, and a dozen or so other strains. The shop offers marijuana-infused sodas, muffins, and chocolates, and monthly classes on cooking with cannabis.
Around 40 percent of Palliative Health’s clients are tech workers, says Ernie Arreola, 38, the assistant manager. “We’re seeing people from some semiconductors, lots of engineers, lots of programmers,” he says. That makes sense, because the shop is an easy shot from some of the area’s biggest employers—Cisco Systems (CSCO), Google (GOOG), Adobe Systems (ADBE), Apple (AAPL), EBay (EBAY)—and a short drive from dozens more. Also, people in Silicon Valley do like their pot.
San Jose is the medical marijuana capital of the Bay Area. The city has 106 pot clinics (four are delivery-only)—more than four times the number in San Francisco, twice as many per square mile as Los Angeles, and, according to San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, “many more than are necessary to meet the medical needs of our population.”
MOLACMA
Art marriage may yield L.A. mega-museum
LACMA makes a preliminary offer for taking over MOCA. Eli Broad might need to OK any merger.
Eli Broad, who is building a museum across from MOCA, agreed in 2008 to give the downtown Los Angeles institution a bailout valued at up to $30 million. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / January 8, 2013)
By Jori Finkel and Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has proposed acquiring the troubled Museum of Contemporary Art — a move that would combine the biggest art collection west of the Mississippi with one of the world’s most prestigious troves of contemporary art.
The acquisition could put to rest long-standing concerns over the financial viability of the Museum of Contemporary Art, or MOCA. But it also faces potential opposition from the region’s most influential art patron, billionaire Eli Broad.
In funding a 2008 MOCA bailout valued at up to $30 million, Broad won a stipulation that MOCA could not be acquired for 10 years by “any museum located within 100 miles of MOCA’s Grand Avenue facility,” excluding “educational institutions or museums affiliated with educational institutions.” Broad declined immediate comment Thursday.
PHOTOS: Arts and culture in pictures by The Times
The acquisition offer was made in a letter from the leaders of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, to the co-chairs of the MOCA board.
3 people (ages 63, 55 & 54) arrested after running aground in stolen yacht strewn with empty beer bottles, pizza boxes
Pacifica: Police arrest three on beach near where 82-foot stolen yacht ran aground
By Joshua Melvin
PACIFICA — Three people were arrested Monday after running aground in a stolen yacht strewn with empty beer bottles and pizza boxes, but not before a brief standoff with police in front of a boisterous crowd.
The 82-foot Darling disappeared from the Sausalito Yacht Harbor around 1:30 a.m. Monday and was spotted stuck in the sand just off Linda Mar beach shortly before 5:15 a.m. About 6½ hours later, a San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office rescue team shuttled two men and one woman to shore, where Pacifica police and handcuffs awaited.
A small cheer went up from the crowd of about 150 people when the woman, the last to go, was tossed aboard a watercraft by rescuers.
“Do it! Do it! Do it! Jump!” one woman chanted and laughed.
The suspects — Leslie Gardner, 63 of Gillette, Wy.; Dario Mira, 54; and Lisa Modawell, 55, of Aptos — were to be booked into San Mateo County jail on suspicion of grand theft and conspiracy, Pacifica police Capt. Joe Spanheimer said.
“The Goebbels of the war against women”
Larry Flynt’s Wild Life: Porn, Politics and Penile Implants
by Stephen Galloway
Frank W. Ockenfels 3
25 years after his landmark Supreme Court win over Jerry Falwell, the Hustler magnate opens up about plans to out a closeted GOP congressman, his sex life at 70 and the future of his empire.
Larry Flynt sits by the window of his sleek, black-and-gold G4 jet, with the letters “LFP” (for Larry Flynt Publications) painted on the tail, gazing out on the world 41,000 feet below, lost in thought.
Just getting here has been a mammoth task. Earlier, Flynt’s black Bentley (with a vanity license plate that reads “HUSTLR”) pulled up beside the plane at an airport in Van Nuys, Calif.; two pilots and a bodyguard eased the 70-year-old out of the car and into a specially designed, miniature wheelchair, before lifting him up the stairs (with a gold-plated ramp) and into his seat, while his regular, $17,000 gold-plated wheelchair was placed in the hold.
Despite running his empire with an iron grip, he went through all this without a word of complaint or irritation, keeping that, like so much else, to himself.
PHOTOS: Larry Flynt: The Inner Life of a Dirty Old Man
The self-described “smut peddler”; former jailbird, amphetamine addict and bootlegger; nemesis of feminists like Gloria Steinem (who called him “the Goebbels of the war against women”); multimillionaire; thorn in the side of the arch-right; and historic defender of free speech has a lot to think about.
It has been 25 years almost to the day since the Supreme Court made “this old pornographer,” as he calls himself, part of history when it handed down a key First Amendment verdict.
Sexually-dynamic Mustached Americans
American Mustache Institute Pushes for Congressional Facial-Hair Caucus
By Chris Good
Spurred by a whiff of news that Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, wants a caucus for senators with facial hair, the American Mustache Institute is pushing King to make good on his recent comment.
National Journal reported last week that King is mulling the notion of a facial hair caucus. “Maybe that can be the beginning to solving the sequestration,” King was quoted as saying.
Now, the American Mustache Institute, brainchild of St. Louis-based marketing consultant andoccasional Forbes columnist Aaron Perlut, has issued an open letter to King calling on him to make this probably nonserious aside a reality, writing:
Indeed, in spite of our trepidation about creating a segregated environment on Capital Hill — ruggedly handsome Senators and Congressmen living a sexually dynamic Mustached Americans sitting in separate rooms from the clean-shaven mortals who fail to reach your level of intellectual excellence — the American Mustache Institute and Mustached American Community at-large welcome plans for the new caucus to represent the interests of all Americans with facial hair.
Ambassador Worm Goes One-on-One with George Stephanopoulos
Detachable Missile
The, Um, Oral History of King Missile’s ‘Detachable Penis’
The meaty truths behind a monster hit
It’s easy to forget just how weird the landscape of popular music was in the early-to-mid-’90s. The success of bands like R.E.M., the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and especially Nirvana had convinced major labels that “alternative” was the next big thing, and those labels decided they had to start signing bands that could fit the bill. But major-label conceptions of “alternative” turned out to mean anything from Better Than Ezra to Butt Trumpet. The Flaming Lips, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Primus, and the Meat Puppets all scored at least minor radio hits, but few weirdo-rock success stories better speak to just how warped pop music had become than King Missile’s “Detachable Penis,” a musical tale of a man who loses his prized package while drunk at a party, only to find it later being hawked by a street vendor in New York’s East Village.
Released in the final weeks of 1992 and delivered to MTV in 1993, the whole story is relayed in deadpan spoken word by the band’s frontman and founder John S. Hall. Hall was a sardonic New York City poet, who’d formed the band in the mid-’80s in order to make his spoken-word performances more dynamic. He recruited a guitarist who went by the moniker Dogbowl, and later a saxophonist and a drummer. That lineup recorded two oddball psychedelic folk/spoken-word albums as King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) with the outré producer Mark Kramer, for his Shimmy Disc label. The band splintered and Hall pulled in guitarist Dave Rick and bassist Chris Xefos for 1990’s more rock-oriented Mystical Shit. The album spawned a college-radio hit, “Jesus Is Way Cool,” which caught the attention of Atlantic Records.
[ click to find out what genius John S. Hall is up to these days ]
Assault & Burrito-ry
Police: Man Assaults Teen Boy With Taco Bell Burrito
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS Tampa) –
Beware the burrito.
Police arrest 36-year-old Erik Brown after they say he slapped a 16-year-old boy in the face with a Taco Bell burrito.
According to the arrest report, the boy was having a “verbal altercation” with his mother and brother-in-law.
It was during the argument when police say Brown asked the mother to bring him the burrito.
Police say Brown took the burrito and threw it with force at the boy’s face.
The boy did not suffer any injuries but did have “burrito cheese, sauce, and meat all over his face.”
Horseballs
IKEA WITHDRAWS MEATBALLS IN MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES
By KARL RITTER
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat.
Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said.
The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much.
Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries — Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland — and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said.
Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier.
“Sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love”
The Art of Kissing: A 1936 Guide for Lovers
by Maria Popova
“Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love.”
Between Edison’s scandalous footage of the first kiss in cinema in 1896 and Bill Plympton’s quirky animated guide to kissing a century later, the public image of lip-locking underwent some radical transformations.
In 1936, the year my grandmother was born, a man named Hugh Morris penned a small illustrated pamphlet titled The Art of Kissing (public library), in which he guided young lovers through the techniques, tricks, and “approved methods of kissing,” including such varieties as “the spiritual kiss,” “the nip kiss,” “the pain kiss,” “the surprise kiss,” “the eyelash kiss,” and “the French soul kiss,” as well as tips on how to prepare for a kiss and how to approach a girl.
Delightfully dated in its assumptions about love, heterosexuality, and marriage, it’s as much a charming time-capsule of a bygone era as it is a sure source of a good chuckle.
Follow, Follow Reverso
Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
by Marilyn Singer, illus. by Josee Masse
In Marilyn Singer’s fun, thoughtful and beautifully written collection, each of her 14 reverso poems spins a familiar fairy tale in a new direction.Singer introduced the reverso in Mirror Mirror. On one side of the page is a free-verse poem composed of short, simple lines and phrases; the same poem appears on the other side of the page, but with the lines reversed from top to bottom. Meanings alter, tones shift, and often the poem’s narrator switches. Together, the two form a single reverso. The results range from hilarious to ominous to poignant. Thumbelina declines the mole’s offer of marriage using the exact words he employed to propose; the Pied Piper turns the villagers’ insistence that he receive “no pay” into a dire warning; and although the Little Mermaid’s reverso begins “For love/ give up your voice./ Don’t/ think twice,” an inner voice warns her, “Think twice!/ Don’t/ give up your voice/ for love.”
Singer’s poems are evocative and moving even without the clever twist, but the playful puzzle element of the reverso poems will fascinate and delight children and grownups alike. Josée Masse’s acrylic paintings visually reflect and bolster the duality contained within each reverso, as in the image that accompanies “Will the Real Princess Please Stand Up?,” in which an excessively tall bedpost divides two wannabe-princesses–one sleeping peacefully, one tossing and turning. This versatile collection will appeal to fans of poetry, fairy tales, word puzzles and snarky narrators. —Allie Jane Bruce, children’s librarian, Bank Street College of Education
Discover: Fun, thoughtful, beautifully written poems that employ a poetic form called a reverso to spin a familiar fairy tale in a new direction.
Protected: I Saw Your Boobs / I Saw Your Boobs
Password Protected
To view this protected post, enter the password below:
Pre-Meditated Rage Against The Machine
Shot six months before their debut – Rage Against The Machine burning down the aisle of a Long Beach record store. Outstanding – and Bombkudos to CowProd.
Pentametron – Iambic Pentameter Tilled From Twitter
DeLeon DeMicoli’s “Les Cannibales” launches Project Orange Slice
About Project Orange Slice
It’s like selling fruit at a farmer’s market. Cut up oranges and hand out slices to those willing to try something new. Hopefully, they’ll be back to buy your produce.
The first novel released under Project Orange Slice is “Les Cannibales” by DeLeon DeMicoli.
The first chapter will be posted once we reach 500 twitter followers.
About “Les Cannibales”
During a robbery, Blinky sees police activity down the street. His crew assumes cops have the art gallery surrounded, unaware of their true presence, which is responding to a car accident that has left one man dead. The thieves shoot at the responding officers and take hostages. When Detective Reynolds arrives at the scene, he identifies the dead man involved in the car accident as Carlo Herrera. This becomes his main lead to hunt down the thieves’ true identities and work out a peaceful resolution before S.W.A.T moves in.
Each thief has a story explaining why he chose to take the job. Inky is a con artist repaying an old debt, Blinky is a stuntman in need of quick cash, Pinky is an enforcer that’s looking to move up in the ranks and Clyde is a sociopath / art aficionado that was recently released from prison. When S.W.A.T teams get the “go-ahead” to overtake the gallery, it’s dog-eat-dog as thieves plan their escape.
About the Author
DeLeon DeMicoli lives in East Bay, CA. He writes a monthly blog called “This Fighting Life” for mixedmartialarts.com.
Follow Project Orange Slice on Twitter to know when chapters for “Les Cannibales” will be posted.
Suck on this, LeBron!
Why We Write – Thursday Night @ The Center For Fiction
Why We Write
Thursday February 21, 2013
07:00 pm
To celebrate the publication of WHY WE WRITE: 20 Acclaimed Authors On How and Why They Do What They Do we’re hosting a panel with contributors James Frey,Kathryn Harrison, and editor Meredith Maran.
About the book:
Any writer, aspiring or established, knows how difficult the creative process can be. There are more than one million manuscripts currently is search of a publisher and only one percent of those will get a nod, and of the books that actually get published, only thirty percent turn a profit. With occupational hazards like self-doubt, writer’s block, countless rejections, minimal pay for maximum effort, and bad reviews what keeps writers tapping away at their keyboards?
James Frey is from Cleveland. He has written four books. His work is published in 41 languages and 110 countries.
Kathryn Harrison has written the novels Thicker Than Water, Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, and Envy. Her autobiographical work includes The Kiss, Seeking Rapture, The Road to Santiago, and The Mother Knot. She has also written a biography, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and, most recently, a book of true crime,While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their three children.
Meredith Maran is the author of nine nonfiction books and the acclaimed novel A Theory of Small Earthquakes. She’s been writer-in-residence at UCLA and the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, and a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell, among other artist colonies. Her writing appears regularly in the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and People.
Banksy Mural Hack
Banksy robbers
Mural hacked off wall set to sell for £450k
Hit … Banksy’s Slave Labour mural on wall
By ADAM FAULKNER and CHRIS POLLARD
Banksy Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) was stolen at night last week.
A BANKSY painting is set to fetch up to £450,000 after it was mysteriously hacked off a shop wall and put on a US auction website.
Banksy Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) was stolen at night last week.
The mural — which shows a young boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting — then appeared on the US-based Fine Art Auctions Miami site.
The “unique street work”, which had been stencilled on to Poundland in Wood Green, North London, last year, is up for £250,000 but is expected to sell for nearly double that.
They’ll Rise Again Like A Led Zeppelin
Robert Plant Hints He’d Be Open to Led Zeppelin Reunion
‘I’ve got nothing to do in 2014,’ says singer
After their tantalizing one-off gig in 2007, Robert Plant has hinted that he’s open to a Led Zeppelin reunion next year. Speaking to Australia’s version of 60 Minutes, the singer deflected the notion that he’s the reason for Zeppelin’s dormancy. “[Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones] are Capricorns. They don’t say a word. They’re quite contained in their own worlds and they leave it to me,” said Plant. “I’m not the bad guy . . . You need to see the Capricorns – I’ve got nothing to do in 2014.”