Paul is a Twit - Marianne is a Tit

Taking a page from Yoko Ono, who has regularly answered fan Tweets every week for years, Paul McCartney had a special one-off "Ask Paul" Twitter event. Why? Promoting the re-release of a Wings album just in time for the holidays. Not to mention the all-star salute to the fab Macca-rena, "The (f)ARt of McCartney."

It's hard to dislike the oh-so-lovable Paulie. Like the 6 year-old who puts his hand on top of the cake, scoops up the icing, and grins while gobbling it down, there's something funny AND bratty about him at the same time. You laugh, shake your head, and just kind of wished he knew the difference. But those big big eyes and that cute little grin!

More music news? Rolling Stone's run a very self-serving and annoying interview with the great Marianne Faithfull. Yes, she's still flogging "As Tears Go By," still referencing her last name (Sacher-Masoch, with all its connotations thanks to the famous author by that name), and still being a charmingly avant-asshole (she mentions how poisonous and dark some of her new lyrics are but won't explain who they were aimed at).

Quite puzzling, to say the least, is her friendship with the odious egomaniac Roger Waters. She grandly exclaims he's a dear friend, not a misogynist, and she's happy to cover a song of his on the new release. I wish the interviewer had quote his antisemitic remarks and asked for HER opinion on Israel.

One of the genius lines in the new Waters song:

And the sparrows will sing on the boulevards again
And the corridors of power will be walked by thoughtful men
The assassins and priests like mythical beasts will surely fade away
Kalloo kalay

Marianne seems to remember that her mother and the Nazis didn't get along:

"She'd lost everything because of Hitler, in a way, and I was meant to bring it all back. But that was not my intention at all.... I must have broken her heart, and I'm really sorry. I wasn't going to live life the way she wanted me to live. No way."

She also mourns Serge Gainsbourg, a french Jew. So how she can praise Waters so much, I don't know. Does she simply NOT talk politics with the guy? Does she accept he has a quirk about the poor Palestinians? Does she truly believe Israel should be blown off the map? Would she have a "Death to Israel" concert with her neo-Nazi pal Roger Waters and skinhead Peter Gabriel?

Roger's always excused his inflammatory rhetoric by insisting he has some Jewish friends. Indeed, there are Jews who are almost antisemites themselves, and quite anti-Zionist and sitting around with their dicks in a cup of warm Arab sperm hoping for their foreskins to grow back.

Meanwhile, back to the non-interview, where she seems about to reveal something, than deliberately clams up:

"I did something that I probably should have done in my 20s," she says. "I thought very carefully about who I love, who I don't love, what I care about, what I don't care about, what's important to me, what's not important to me. All the big sorts of things that I had to work out but had never done because I was either parading around in swinging London or I was on drugs – or I was not on drugs but working. I'd never had that sort of absolute peace where I could just ponder on the things that really are important to me and the things that I really don't care about."

What did she learn about herself? "I won't actually tell you," she says sharply with a pause. "No, I can't." She laughs heartily. "Too cruel, you know? But I did learn a lot, and out of that came this record."

Thanks, Marianne. What an old tease.

Another clam-up:

After "Give My Love to London," Faithfull treaded toward writing love songs. "I think I wrote 'Deep Water' next, but I can't tell you what it's about," she says of a particularly heartrending number. Why not? "It's too personal, man."

Not too personal: yapping on and on about Mick Jagger and how grateful she is for "As Tears Go By," and, as ex-junkies always do, yapping on and ON and ON and ON about how nobody knows what it's like to kick the habit, etc. etc. Oh, the romance, tragedy, drama and darkness of being a self-absorbed heroin addict, which so many of them wear as a badge of honor. How sensitive you were, to have had to resort to heroin. Oh, your PAIN.

It's wonderful that Marianne turned from a solemn and simpering "bird" who could sing a sad song, into rock's Bette Davis. If Bette Davis was a rock-cabaret chanteuse in 2014, wouldn't she sound like Marianne? And so we will always be Faithfull. As we will always listen to a new Macca album. The grain of salt is in the kitchen.