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Apparently, God hates us: Blink 182 possibly plotting comeback. There were a few other things we considered for this week's Five Spot: Depeche Mode are getting open-lipped about their new album, alluding that it may be similar to Violator (Brilliant); Ryan Adams tossing insults towards the Killers and R.E.M. be
In news that was greeted with yawns outside of Houston - and not exactly shouted from the rooftops here - Matthew Knowles, father of Beyonce and Solange, has been slapped with a paternity suit by an actress in Los Angeles.
This obviously wouldn't be much of a story if not for his famous offspring, and fooling around on your wife isn't quite in the top tier of bad things you can do to your kids, especially when you look at some of the finer specimens in the "manager dad" department.
Joe Simps