I am surprised that so many people have not even considered the possibility that I'm telling the truth. I'm surprised because in the lead up to the release of CD1, I was consistantly and almost daily breaking accurate stories about the album.

And back then I was very honest about how I was getting the info. Azoff was controlling what Rolling Stone was reporting about GNR, so someone at Rolling Stone was feeding me info that their boss was not letting them report.

Just like now, when I've been honest about getting info from confidential emails that were anonymously sent to me. I could have acted like I was some sort of insider. But I never have. I've always been a lying sack of shit behind the scenes to get my hands on stuff and then completely honest with the fanbase afterwards.

So yes, it is surprising that so few have even taken the position that it's POSSIBLE that I'm telling the truth.

OBVIOUSLY I intended for evidence to surface at some point. But in the meantime, while the legalities of everything were being sorted out, I wanted to KEEP MY WORD and on Feb 2, fill you guys in on what has been going on lately in the GNR world.

Yes, anybody could just make up a bunch of shit in a blog post.

BUT. I. DIDN'T.

And if you don't believe me, that's fine. But I do feel my past actions should be worth at least reserving judgement instead of automatically assuming that I'm definitely lying. That seems kind of rude when I've been so honest and forthcoming in the past.

mendosa! my favorite mistersaintlaurent.com member! the funny thing about this idiot TSI that doesn't think anybody was in china . . . the dude from china posts on my site all the time about his life in china.

the leaking itself isn't the hard part. obv.

getting the song in the first place on the other hand . . .

misterID -

many years ago, fernando gave a disc to some friends in brazil. eventually some fans in portugal got their hands on the disc.

downliner -

when i wrote "the whole story" . . . it was a full stream of consciousness confession that i posted without editing in any way. i was heavily criticized by many after i posted it, but it was important to me to document what really happened, what my mindset really was, etc. years later, i'll see someone repost it and i'll skim through it a bit and as much as i hate reading it and as much as i think it makes me look like a total douche, i do like that it's honest and accurate.

lol, getting bitched at no matter what you do is part of being well known. it can be incredibly frustrating, but it's certainly not a unique situation.

being a performer is the only job i've ever had. if you're going to put yourself out there and act like you're so special that people should pay money to see you, you have to accept that people are allowed to say whatever they want about you, true or not.

i guess what makes the GNR stuff different for me though is that i consider myself a fan trying to help other fans. so when i'm criticized by a GNR fan, it feels very different than being criticzed by an MSL fan, which is something i've gotten used to over the last ten years of playing music/wrestling/performing poetry/juggling or whatever other non-sense i was up to.

when someone buys a ticket or pays a cover charge to see me, i become very emotionally detached and accept some people will hate my art and that's ok.

when people bitch about me in GNR land, it feels more like hanging out at the mall with my buddies and then suddenly everyone decides i suck.