"Lord Gaga"? Lady in Love?And Dude's From NEBRASKA!?

This is encouraging. Apparently you can be a smartass, 30-something bum from flyover territory and still make it with a rock star in the Big City!!! So is the story of Luc Carl (pictured on the left side of the lefthand picture, wearing an A's hat at a Mets game!?), as detailed in today's New York Post (link at bottom). Luc is a Nebraska-native bartender (and aspiring musician) in the Big Apple who reportedly has Pop Music Empress Lady Gaga quite smitten. From that pic, he looks to me like actor Diedrich Bader with a long-hair wig, but apparently Luc does actually exist as a bona fide person of his own.

Where to start? First of all, in addition to being a Cornholer (errrr, Nebraskan), Luc (32 years old and 8 years Gaga's senior) reportedly likes to adorn himself with attire more fitting of a mid-1980's relic than a suitor of the likes of Lady Gaga. He's described as a "sarcastic, Spandex-wearing bartender and aspiring lifestyle guru from Nebraska who looks like he raided [Poison's] Bret Michaels' closet in 1987," "perpetually clad in snakeskin Spandex and headbands." Actually, rather than Bret Michaels in 1987, that description seems to me even more buried in the '80s and more fitting of Motley Crue's Vince Neil circa 1983!

And other reports make Luc sound very much like the equivalent of a contemporary Kramer-like character from the classic TV sitcom Seinfeld. He hangs out at "hipster" joints, tending bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side at such "dives" as St. Jerome's (where he originally met Lady Gaga in 2007) and Welcome to the Johnson's. Also like Kramer, and despite his many quirks, he's described as "totally a ladykiller -- he's very charming."

And dude maintains a certain Net presence as well, blasting away from his blog, Drunkdiet.com. Thereon, he reports that he's working on a "cheeky memoir 'of his trials and tribulations to get into shape while partying every night.'" (Personal note: Yes, that very much can be a real chore!). Part of his regimen reportedly involves lifting dumbbells while smoking cigarettes! (Kids: Never use tobacco.) But whatever he's doing, it's been effective, because dude's reported to be very much in shape these days (the linked article implies, without coming out and saying it, that Luc was previously something less than "in shape").

OK, so enough already about this dude. What's the story on his relationship with Lady Gaga? Well, as stated above, they met in 2007, with Gaga reportedly developing a longstanding "puppy dog-like devotion" towards Luc. She's been described as being "obsessed" with Luc after it initially "took her awhile to get the courage up to talk to him." It's reported that several of the songs from her album The Fame were inspired by Luc, including "Boys, Boys, Boys."

Ultimately, Lady Gaga broke up with Luc 3 years ago (after less than a year of dating), reportedly due to his unfaithful tendency to make out with other chicks in front of her (quite ballsy for a loser dude with a rock star girlfriend!) and his apparent jealousy and competitiveness when it came to his waivering music career versus her meteoric rise.

The two became an item again only very recently, announcing the same to the Civilized World when they showed up together at a recent New York Mets game at CitiField -- an appearance that drew headlines across the country, but only due to Lady Gaga making a general spectacle of herself as she flipped off Mets fans for no apparent good reason.

Since then, Gaga and Luc have made waves in the past few weeks when Gaga -- apparently embracing her beau's '80s relic fetish and doing her best impersonation of just-such-a-relic Corey Hart -- showed up at St. Jerome's (one of Luc's barkeep joints) "wearing sunglasses at night." As one friend says, "He's the one guy she's never gotten over." And since it appears that Corey Hart and Bret Michaels are taken, with Vince Neil likely being "taken" off to the can soon for his recent DUI, I guess Lady Gaga has to date someone, right? She should look further into The Independent Rage, although I would wager that I move and shake just a bit too fast for anything like that!

http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/the_lady_gaga_for_old_flame_fwILvOt4c0zLlUNEVEGNRM