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"I personally think a cocktail--"

"REM is classic rock, Victor," Conrad says patiently "We do not do classic-rock covers"

"Oh god, I want to kill ood news, everyone, is that Courtney Love’s over thirty," I say happily

"Okay I feel better"

"What kind of royalties is Courtney getting froy

"Was there a prenup?" Fergy wonders

Shrugs all around

"So," Fergy concludes, "since Kurt’s de"

"Hey, come on-Kurt Cobain didn’t die," I say "His music lives on in all of us"

"We really need to focus on new uys," Conrad says

"Well, can we at least write one song without a shitty reggae beat that starts off with the line `I was a trippin in da crack house late last night’?" I ask "Or `Dere’s a rat in da kitchen-what I gonna do?’"

Aztec pops open a Zima and restrums his Fender conteuysChloe on the cover of the new Manhattan File next to the latest Wired and the copy of YouthQuake with me on the front, totally defaced with purple ink

"Last week, Victor," I hear Conrad say through gritted teeth

"That’s aaround for the article about her It’s all blah blah blah-the last year of doing runway shows, the Lanco the ru to have kids ("A big playpen, the whole thing," she’s quoted), a photo of us at the VH 1 Fashion and Music Awards, withvacantly into the ca the Fifty Most Fabulous People in the World, Baxter Priestly trailing behind her-and I’ to remember what my relationship with Lauren Hynde was like back at Caht now, in the loft on Bond Street, it , hands on hips, "a lot of bands are in the et laid-"

"Whoa, wait aup "These are the wrong reasons? Really? Let ht"