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This just in from the cluttered desk of Patrick Wolf: nakedness is a-okay. Opined Wolf in a recent blog post, "a naked body does not offend me in any way, it can be used as a communication device, a performance piece. It need not be perfect and there is no such thing as perfection when it comes to the body."

Patrick felt compelled to assume this magic position after taking a swing at celeb gossip hound Perez "soulless vacuous im sorry your life is so superficial gustav mahlers dog will be waiting for you in the afterlife to eat you" Hilton, who apparently refers to Wolf as a "Swedish stripper." Right, then.

Wolf also howled about the foul English injustice that is the 18+ show. "The government has restricted so much of the fun and feelings you deserve," he wrote. "[They're] denying new generations of a healthy musical upbringing and its [sic] becoming boring. If it means all venues are over 18 these days, then I will try my hardest to play halls and bandstands and anywhere where music can be heard for everyone."

Speaking of playing shows, the man who claimed his "final concert" will be this November is planning tours in America, the UK, Japan, and Australia "before the year is through."

Wolf also assures us that he is indeed working with Atari Teenage Rioter Alec Empire on material for Wolf's fourth album, which is "becoming an epic."

What's more, Wolf's lending his boundless creative juices to an enterprise by filmmaker John Jenkinson (not the quality car salesman, we'll assume). Jenkinson's feature No Ghosts will include original music from Wolf; you can hear a snippet of the piano'n'strings tune "The Days" (recorded in Vienna, fittingly) on the film's website.

While No Ghosts is "only in the early stages," you can settle for the whole live Patrick Wolf spectacle for now, which goes down at a number of upcoming festival gigs.

Wolf parade:

08-17 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-18 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-24 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-25 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-26 Paris, France - Rock en Seine
09-01 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09-02 Argyll, Scotland - Connect Festival