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Books I Read in 2022 (part 1)

Books I Read in 2022 (part 1)

Despite being busy with school, and working a full-time job this past year, I decided to focus on reading more. On Goodreads, you can set a goal for the number of books to read. I set mine for 25, and was able to surpass it! I hit my goal by reading every single day. Through most of the year, I would be reading 2 books at once – a physical or digital copy, and when my eyes were tired, an…

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Ixzl Appreciation Day

Part I

"Suddenly, there's an explosion. 'Violent mood swing!' shouts Izzy, rolling from the counter. A bottle of vodka flies from his hand and smashes against the far wall. 'Mood swing!' shouts Axl, leaping from the couch. He grabs a vase filled with roses and pitches it in the same direction. Just as quickly, Izzy and Axl are seated again."

Ixzl Appreciation Day

Part I

Izzy and Axl

Ya get out on your own And you, take all that you own And you, forget about your home And then you're, just fuckin' gone!

They still love each other, and well, I still love them.

Above quote from Rolling Stone Magazine, Rob Tannenbaum, 1988, 'The Hard Truth About Guns N Roses'

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Bob Geldof: Q&A

By Rob Tannenbaum - November 15, 1990

To some extent, was Live Aid one person’s attempt to be able to feel good about himself? No, it wasn’t. If you look at the Rats’ songs, Live Aid is not out of context. The concert was music made manifest through organization, which was possible for me to do given that I had organized my own life, from the age of seven. As for feeling good about myself, I didn’t. Why would I? Because you helped save lives. I may have been instrumental in doing it, but I did not do it. [Pauses] It was just too huge. It was so constant that any time I sat down and reflected, I was afraid. I was afraid that I couldn’t do it. I would meet kings and presidents and prime ministers and have to not make a fool of myself. It’s frightening going on the floor of the United Nations. You’d go on and rely on your native wit and your sense of outrage and anger to carry you through. There was never a time I thought, “Aren’t you doing a great thing.” I’m glad I did it, but this American thing of “Feel good about yourself,” it’s not possible in my case. When Townshend, McCartney and Bowie raised me on their shoulders at the end of Live Aid, I remember vividly being overcome by embarrassment.

Read the full interview here

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Hiya! Messaging to request some fc suggestions please? Needing help finding an fc for my character who will is very southern gothic, Ethel chain's Preacher's Daughter album, bones & all and southern blues inspired, I imagine her as dark haired and between ages of 25 to mid 30s - all ethnicities/races/genders come but if you don't mind me specifying , can I ask for only actors to be listed please? Aka no influences, singers or models etc - thank you so so much in advance!!!

Southern gothic, Ethel cain fc request here again sorry!! Forgot to add but if you don't mind me adding - also ideally someone who gives off messy/haphazard vibes please?? Kinda like they're obviously on the road a lot so have a permanent grease vibe?? So sorry if that's too specific and apologies again for adding this bug again tysm in advance!!!

Annabelle Wallis (1983) - Malignant.

Diane Guerrero (1986) Colombian - Doom Patrol.

Jodi Balfour (1987) - Quarry.

Courtney Bandeko (1988) Nigerian - Legacies.

Ritu Arya (1988) Indian - Lady Parts, Polite Society.

Nadia Hilker (1988) Tunisian / German - in The Walking Dead.

Nico Tortorella (1988) - is genderfluid, poly, pansexual and demisexual (any pronouns) - Fear The Walking Dead.

Rob Raco (1989) - Riverdale.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian - Resident Evil.

Michael Vlamis (1990) 37.5% Lebanese 25% Greek 25% Serbian 12.5% English - Roswell: New Mexico.

Emory Cohen (1990) - Lords of Chaos.

Kiowa Gordon (1990) Hualapai, English, Scottish, Danish, Manx - Blood Quantum.

Sarah Kameela Impey (1991) Indo-Guyanese / British - iWe Are Lady Parts.

Vico Ortiz (1991) Puerto Rican - non-binary (they/them) - Our Flag Means Death.

Joe Keery (1992) - Stanger Things.

Kiana Madeira (1992) Portuguese / Irish, Unspecified First Nations, Black Canadian - Fear Street.

Hari Nef (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - is trans - Assassin Nation.

Katerina Tannenbaum (1993) - Betty,

Joseph Quinn (1993) - Stranger Things.

Taylor Russell (1994) Black Canadian / European - Bones and All.

Han Sohee (1994) Korean - My Name.

Lily Sullivan (1994) - Evil Dead Rise.

Sophia Ali (1995) Pakistani / Sicilian Italian, Danish, Norwegian, German - Uncharted, The Wilds.

Sasha Lane (1995) African-American, Māori, English, Scottish, Sorbian, French, Cornish, distant German, Italian, Belgian Flemish, Russian, and Northern Irish - is gay and has schizoaffective disorder - American Honey.

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Sarah Pidgeon (1996) - The Wilds.

Elliot Fletcher (1996) - is trans masc - Y: The Last Man.

Aria Shahghasemi (1996) Iranian - Legacies.

Archie Renaux (1997) English, Punjabi Indian.

Luka Sabbat (1997) Afro-Haitian, Irish, English, German.

Sydney Park (1997) African-American / Korean - There’s Someone Inside Your House.

Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998) - Where the Crawdads Sing.

Julia Dalavia (1998) Brazilian - Pantanal.

Felix Mallard (1998)

Hey anon! This ask was way harder than it should have been so I hope my followers give you more suggestions because I was struggling! Please keep in mind that some of these just give move around vibes.

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Robert De Niro was infatuated with Whitney.

“PETER BARON: Whitney Houston was the first breakthrough for Arista Records at MTV. We didn’t spend a whole lot of money on Whitney’s videos; she didn’t have the charisma and personality of a Madonna or Prince. She was a churchgoing, gospel-singing teenager who rarely left the house. And she had two old Jewish managers—one named Gene Harvey and the other, I’m not making this up, named Seymour Flics. They were two alter kockers who didn’t know anything about videos. Clive Davis was barely involved. He didn’t even have a TV in his office for the first five years of MTV. I went to to England to supervise “How Will I Know.” The day before the shoot, my phone rings, and it’s Don Ienner, who was a VP at Arista. He says, “Peter, we need a favor with Whitney. I’m going to have Tommy Mottola call you.” I said, “Fine.” Ring, ring. “Peter, how you doing, I hear great things about you.” I was like, Oh, that’s a setup. “One of my dearest friends is in England, and I was wondering if there’s a way you could hook up”—he used the phrase hook up—“ an introduction between him and Whitney. He’s in the UK working on a movie called The Mission.” I said, “Well, who is it?” He said, “It’s Robert De Niro.” Two seconds later, ring, ring. “Hey, Pete, it’s Bob De Niro. What are you guys doing tonight?” When I told Whitney, she dropped a fork out of her hand. And said, “No fucking way,” or something along those lines. “He’s really been coming after me. He keeps sending me flowers and calling my dad.” So I had to blow off Robert De Niro. He said, “Maybe tomorrow night?” I go, “Yeah, maybe.” And he called me the next day and about three or four more times, before he understood that it wasn’t going to happen.

— I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Rob Tannenbaum, Craig Marks

Robert De Niro is a damn mess! The THIRST is real!

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Antonio Velardo shares: How Shane MacGowan Made a Holiday Favorite: ‘Fairytale of New York’ by Rob Tannenbaum

By Rob Tannenbaum The duet between the Pogues frontman and the singer Kirsty MacColl portrays lovers who turn viciously against one another on Christmas Eve. Published: December 1, 2023 at 05:02PM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/9gvcTLx via IFTTT

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Time for your Rock Report

Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner has been removed from the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Board of Directors over controversial comments he made in an interview last week. In the interview published by the New York Times last Friday, Wenner said, "In so far as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level" of the white male musicians featured in his new book of interviews, "The Masters." "Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation," the foundation said in a one-line statement last Saturday.

Later in the day, Wenner issued an apology through his publisher Little, Brown and Company. It reads, "In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.""I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences," he adds.

Rolling Stone responded to Wenner's comments in a statement posted on X, saying, "Jann Wenner's recent statements to the New York Times do not represent the values and practices of today's Rolling Stone."

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Billy Joel - The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 on November 3, celebrating 50-plus years of the legendary artist's musical career. The 11LP deluxe box set completes the Billy Joel 12" vinyl album project that began with The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1, a 9LP set released in November 2021 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Cold Spring Harbor. While The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1 chronicled Joel's evolution as a songwriter, performer and recording artist during his rise to international superstardom in the 1970s, its sequel focuses on the surprising next phase of his extraordinary career. In addition to bringing together Billy's monumentally successful 1980s albums — Glass Houses (1980), The Nylon Curtain (1982), An Innocent Man (1983), The Bridge (1986) and Storm Front (1989) — alongside 1993's River of Dreams, his…. final…. studio album of newly written pop songs, The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 presents an exclusive 2LP pressing of 2001's Fantasies & Delusions, an instrumental album showcasing classical piano compositions by Joel.

All titles in the Vinyl Collection have been sourced from the original album masters and prepared by Ted Jensen with lacquers cut by Joe Nino Hernes at Sterling Sound in Nashville, Tennessee. The box set includes a 60-plus page booklet featuring Billy's revelatory personal observations and insights about each album, an informative essay by Rob Tannenbaum, rare photos and memorabilia from the era and more.

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"Tony Bennett’s 10 Essential Songs" by Rob Tannenbaum via NYT Arts https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/arts/music/tony-bennett-songs.html?partner=IFTTT

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Tony Bennett’s 10 Essential Songs

By Rob Tannenbaum Over a career of 70-plus years, the singer infused his performances with a huge range, dramatic flair, rhythmic agility and an inquisitive approach to interpreting lyrics. Published: July 21, 2023 at 08:00AM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/WzuVivJ

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2022′s Favoritest Great Reads

THE BEST

33 1/3 The National’s Boxer, Ryan Pinkard

Anthem, Noah Hawley

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kyle Buchanon

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum

Liberation Day, George Saunders

Mickey7, Ashton Edward

Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart

Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard #2), Scott Lynch

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

The Candy House, Jennifer Egan

The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

THE REST

33 1/3 Bjork’s Homogenic, Emily MacKay

33 1/3 Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, Charles Fairchild

33 1/3 LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver, Ryan Leas

33 1/3 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads, Santi Elijah Holley

33 1/3 PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Kate Schatz

33 1/3 Portishead’s Dummy, RJ Wheaton

33 1/3 Sigur Ros’s (), Ethan Hayden

33 1/3 Siouxsie & the Banshees’ Peepshow, Samantha Bennett

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, Tom Perrotta

Deacon King Kong, James McBride

Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2034, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Metro 2035, Dmitry Glukhovsky

Oval, Elvia Wilk

The Adventurer’s Son, Roman Dial

The Book of Form and Happiness, Ruth Ozeki

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami

The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

The Institute, Stephen King

The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles

The Regulators, Richard Bachman

Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

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Michael Bay was in film school with me. We had an assignment to do a video to anybody’s song; most people used Tom Waits, something like that. But Michael Bay cut his reel to Berlin’s “You Take My Breath Away.” It moved his soul! It was shit, but it moved his soul! When people say he sold out, I say bullshit, because he’s true to himself. When you see a Michael Bay film, you might say it’s the biggest piece of shit, or the most brilliant and successful film, but you see him.

Tarsem Singh (from ‘I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution’, by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum)

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By BY ROB TANNENBAUM from Arts in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/arts/music/new-york-new-music-post-punk.html?partner=IFTTT An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York documents a brief moment when rogue videographers shot an influential sliver of the music scene. In the ’80s, Post-Punk Filled New York Clubs. Their Videos Captured It. New York Times

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"Tom Freston once said to me, 'VJs are like fruits and vegetables--they're perishable, and you have to know when to toss them out.' So one of the not-fun things I had to do was to find new VJs."

Steve Leeds, MTV Executive , quoted in 'I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of The Music Video Revolution' by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum

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🎄25 Days of HXH: Day 6: Hisoka x Christmas Cookies🎄

A/N: The recipe used is an actual recipe, and you can follow it as it’s descripted, but of course, I’ll link the recipe for Sugar Cookies here!

Christmas music played faintly in the background as you swept pine needles from the living room floor of your apartment, allowing you to sway slightly as you created a small pile. You’d made it your business to buy a real Christmas tree this year, although you’d forgotten about the mess it creates on the floor. I was a small price to pay for the gentle scent of pine and Christmas wafting through your apartment. Not only had you gotten a real Christmas tree, you’d gone all out decorating your apartment for the holidays, hanging up stockings on the window sill, stringing lighting on the mini balcony, lining the windows with lights, everything was stunningly festive and you couldn’t help but feel giddy looking at it all. O Tannenbaum by Vince Guaraldi

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You’d been taking the time to do the classic holiday activities as often as possible, seeing as you hadn’t been able to much in the past. You’d even drag Hisoka along when he wasn’t fighting in Heavens Arena, and he took quite a liking to it. You’d spent a lot of time going out and seeing sights in the city, from giant trees to some shows (which he could barely sit through), you finally suggested you do a home activity when he was free, he was all for it. You’d spent days coming up with ideas, none which sat right with either of you. However, when you suggested to Hisoka that you bake cookies, you were shocked at how delighted he was by the idea. You knew he had a sweet tooth, but you figured it was limited to candies and such and not so much baked goods. Before you could even ask him what cookie he liked, he’d already told you that the two of you would be making sugar cookies, and you really couldn’t tell him no with that twinkle in his eye. There was a genuine and pure happiness to the suggestion of cookies, sugar cookies no less, and you couldn’t help but wonder if there was something more to it, or if he really had a craving for sugar cookies in general. In a sense of the latter, he really hadn't seemed like a sugar cookie type of guy. 

In the midst of pulling out ingredients for cookies and setting everything up, you heard your name from outside the door, followed by knocking. Running to the door, you cracked it open and smiled, finding Hisoka on the other side returning your energy. In his hands were a box of candy canes, causing you to raise a brow and look between him and the box.

“An offering for sweet y/n,” leaning forward, shaking the box gently, “in hopes that they let me in~”

“Hmm,” feigning deep consideration as you eyed the box, “is this all you have to offer me?”

“You get me as well, angel face~”, playfully appealing to your consideration. 

“Well I’m sold!” you finally answered, opening the door wider for him to enter. 

You plucked the box from his hands and ran off to the kitchen with Hisoka in tow, taking his time in looking over the decorations in your apartment. Ignoring the kitchen, he walked over to your Christmas tree and plucked off a pine needle, rubbing it between his fingers. Poking some ornaments, he let out a dramatic sigh, causing you to poke your head around the corner.

“You decorated without meeeee.” he whined, although you couldn’t tell if he was genuinely hurt or not this time. 

“Well, you were busy beating people up, and you were never free, so…” you rolled your eyes as he pouted, stopping your sentence short.

“Making cookies will make up for it, right?” you suggested, nibbling at the end of a candy cane.

“Maybe,” he said, walking over and snapping the candy in the center and taking the other half for himself, “We’ll see~”

“Thief…” you murmured, jilted from being robbed of your candy cane.

“Oh come now, sharing is caring, y/n~” he quipped, winking at you.

Waving him off, you grabbed a bowl and set it down, placing your hands at your hips.

“Okay! So...we need flour first! Do you want--” you stopped looking at him, reading the mischief on his face-- “Y’know what, I’ll sift it.” You grabbed a strainer and a measuring cup, diving into the bag of flour.

“Aww do you not trust me? I’m hurt.” sighing as he came up behind you, fiddling with your hands.

“Hisokaaaaaa cut it out.” swatting as his hands as you scooped out more flour. 

“That’s quite a bit of flour, dollface…” he trailed off, seeming genuinely concerned by the amount of flour you were measuring out.

“Well it said three cups-”

“That’s a lot of cookies, love.” interrupting you as he peeked at your phone for the recipe.

“Eh? How many does it say?” leaning back to check as well.

“3 dozen. Who are you trying to feed, hm?” he pressed, poking at your cheek.

“You. Who else?”

“All for me? You spoil me, y/n~” chuckling as he peppered your face with kisses.

“Cookies now, kisses later.”

“Mmmm I’ll hold you to that, dove~” humming as he moved from behind you, grabbing the baking soda. Grabbing a teaspoon, he took out ¾ of a teaspoon of powder out and dumped it in the bowl, moving over some more to get the salt.

“You were supposed to sift that.” chastising him, watching him roll his eyes at you.

“I doubt it matters all that much,” dropping in a pinch of salt as he spoke to you, “it’s small after all~”

Grumbling, you pluck your phone from him and keep reading, figuring out what's next.

“A cup of sugar...hm.” picking up the measuring cup, you moved to find the sugar, seeing as you misplaced it.

“Go on, y/n, get in the bowl~” 

You stopped, letting the statement register. Squinting, you slowly turned to him.

“You’re not funny.”

“Mmmm but you didn’t say I was wrong~” he pointed out, smirking at you as you moved along. 

“Yeah yeah whatever...Where’s the sugar?” you stopped, scanning the counter.

“Well I did say get in the bowl…,” reminding you of his awful joke as he came closer, “but this can pass as a substitute if you’d like~” holding the bag of sugar, pouring it in the measuring cup for you.

You decided it would be a waste of breath asking him when he swindled your sugar and took the measuring cup and poured it through the sifter, careful to mix the dry ingredients when it was all in. Hisoka seemed to be step ahead of you as he grabbed the butter, an egg, a tablespoon of milk and vanilla extract, placing them in your stand mixer’s bowl and plugging it in. He almost seemed like a cat watching the stand mixer blades whir around, his eyes following with curious intensity. Feeling your stare, he locked eyes with you, a smile slowly spreading across his lips. 

“What’re you smiling at?” you ask, feeling bold.

“What’re you staring at, dollface~” 

“I asked first.”

“Mmmm but staring is rude.~”

“Ahh nevermind…”

Hisoka chuckled at your dismissal and sauntered over to grab the flour mixture and made an effort to start pouring.

“Hey hey hey. Don’t you dare make a mess.” stressing as some powder slid in the mixer, a small cloud puffing up as a result. 

“Of course of course~” he reassured, waving you off as he slowly added flour.

He was surprisingly careful with it, and particularly clean. Not once did flour mixture hit the table, and he was quite careful to do a little bit at a time. You came closer and watched him, allowing yourself to rest against his arm lightly enough that it didn’t disturb him. Seeming satisfied with the mixing job, he stopped the mixer and turned to you, running a finger across your jaw, adding enough pressure for you to face him properly.

“Happy?” he asked, tilting his head as he smiled.

“With?” 

He gestured to the stand mixer, still smiling. Unable to lie (since there really was no reason to) you nodded, and he patted your head as he sat down. You removed the sugar cookie dough and wrapped it, placed it in the fridge and sat next to Hisoka, allowing him to play with your hair quietly for a moment. 

“Is there a reason you like sugar cookies, Hiso?” you asked, looking at him.

For a brief moment, there was a far off look to him, a reason that tied to something else, deeper than just liking the sweet confection for the hell of it. He was thinking, reminiscing, remembering everything that made him hold that cookie close.

“Mmm...they’re perfect, really.” he sighed.

“Really?” you implored, giving him a side eye.

“Would I lie to you, y/n?” giving you a side eye back as he answered. 

You purse your lips and he chuckled as he leaned over to kiss your temple, moving down to your cheek. 

“Hisokaaaaa..” you whined, leaning away only to find yourself leaning into them.

“Kisses now, cookies later~” he countered your whine, reminding you of your promise.

“Well...it is a two hour wait-” you yelped as he scooped you up and walked over to the living room.

“Perfect~”

After 2 hours of Hisoka and his antics, light conversations about Christmas and Heaven’s Arena, the cookie dough was firm enough to be shaped, much to Hisoka’s delight. The first thing he did was rummage around for cookie cutters, and you couldn’t help but find him absolutely precious in a gentle way, although he never really had an innocence about him. He had a genuine happiness floating about him and it was contagious, allowing yourself to fall into his banter which ended up with the both of you in a fit of giggles at his flirtatious jokes, occasionally making him blush with some of your own. Flowing into cutting cookies into trees, stars, reindeers and whining about no tear drop cutter, you cut 36 cookies and set them to bake.

It’s rare that you get to see Hisoka so open and comfortable doing things as simple and domestic as this. You’d always seen him in the heat of a fight, smirking and firing of comments, proud and calculated. He was always so alert, ready for anything to come his way. Now, here in your kitchen as you decorate sugar cookies, smearing icing on each other, pouring way too many sprinkles on your cookies, and eating enough cookies that it’d be regrettable in a few hours was a wonderful new experience. You felt closer to him, seeing him enjoy himself in this fashion, watching him gush over sugar cookies this way. You may never know what that look from earlier meant, if there was a deeper meaning behind his love for sugar cookies, if there was a history behind it, or if he really did have a normal, natural love for them, but at this point, in the moment, it didn’t matter. What mattered was the scent of pine trees and sugar cookies riding on the notes of O Tannenbaum through your apartment and Hisoka spending a night with you making cookies, even if he was spilling sprinkles all over the floor. 

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Antonio Velardo shares: Kiss Loves to Say Goodbye. Is Its Rock ’n’ Roll Really Over? by Rob Tannenbaum

By Rob Tannenbaum Farewell tours are one of pop music’s signature moves. But there’s reason to believe Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are throwing in the towel for real this time. Published: December 1, 2023 at 11:41AM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/DL7rmx8 via IFTTT