QOTSA IN OSLO: HOMME-SPUN WISDOM

Sick and taking no shit, Josh Homme lets a rowdy fan have it—in the face, if he’d had his druthers.

By Randy Harward

Did you hear? You know, that Queens of the Stone Age frontguy Josh Homme read a rowdy fan the XXX version of the riot act in Oslo last weekend? Evidently Homme wasn’t feeling too well and when a fan tossed something at him, he lost his shit—all over the guy. Here’s a sampling of some Homme-spun wisdom:

“Hey, do me one favor, though: don’t throw any shit at me… I’m not so sick that I can’t go down there and beat the fuckin’ shit out, you know what I’m sayin’? I may have a fuckin’ 102 temperature and been pukin’ for three days, but I’ll still butt-fuck you in front of all your friends.”

Homme then unleashed the fuckin’ fury on the “pussy with the black hair,” whom he also called a “chickenshit fuckin’ faggot” and a “pussy motherfucker.” The fan was ejected from the show although Homme, moving toward the stage and holding his guitar out of the way, said he wanted them to lift the fan onstage so he could “kick him in the fuckin’ face.” The Norwegian Wood Festival security simply escorted the fan out of the show.

You know what the funniest thing about Scandinavia is? Its little differences. Here, Homme might’ve gotten his wish. But was this his Michael Richards moment? Some people seem to think he could learn a lesson (in what, taking shit from shitheads?). But BLURT sides with Homme on this one. Tossing anything other than bras or panties or weed or dirty pictures or Carl’s Jr. coupons onstage just ain’t cool. Fuck that guy.