Questions For Charlie Daniels
McSweeny’s has a piece called “Thirty-Nine Questions for Charlie Daniels Upon Hearing ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’ for the First Time in 25 Years”:
…Because isn’t that totally amazing fiddle feedback thing the Devil plays (which sounds like Hendrix gone bluegrass) a hundred times better than that high-school-band piece-of-crap tune Johnny plays?
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Dylan Via Scorsese
PBS will air “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home“, a film by Martin Scorsese in September:
The two-part film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter’s life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan’s during that time. Dylan talks openly and extensively about this critical period in [...]
Spammer Scott Levine Convicted
Slashdot sez:
bani writes “Spammer Scott Levine was convicted of massive data theft from Acxiom Corporation. Prosecutors say his company, the now-defunct Snipermail.com, stole 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom and sold the data. He faces a maximum of 640 years in prison under the law, though he will likely be sentenced to far less. One [...]
1 Million Songs
It only took Apple four days to dominate the lucrative Japanese music market as the company announced on Sunday that it had already sold more than 1 million songs on the iTunes Music Store Japan. Japanese artists claimed the number one song (Def Tech) and the number one album (Ulfuls).
[Macworld]
Park Like An Idiot
Ever been pissed at sombody for taking up mkore than one parking space? Well now there’s a web site just for you. I Park Like An Idiot has bumper stickers for sale (low tack, of course) to stick on the offending automobile, and pictures of actual idiots and their parked cars. You can [...]
Palmeiro Tests Positive
Anybody who believes athletes’ bluster and dog-ate-the-homework denials deserves the disillusionment that sets in down the road. I’ve heard Ben Johnson and Diego Maradona insist there must be some kind of mistake.
[George Vecsey - New York Times]
It does seem like any time an athlete tests positive, they claim they have no idea how it happened, [...]
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