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Archives for May 2009
AMS HYPOCRISY
You can see, then, why I find the AMS resolution so pompous. The society condemns outlandish abuses of music and people in remote prisons while it undermines the role of its membership at home. In doing so, the AMS parades in lockstep with other contemporary institutions, for which Enlightenment … [Read more...]
HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH
The ultimate goal for music technology, "the celestial jukebox," is going to be reached very soon. That term has been floating around for a decade or more, but what it comes down to is total access, anywhere and at any time, to any music ever recorded. That's not just the 10 million songs presently … [Read more...]
ESSAY OF THE WEEK
A virus is currently spreading among today's young people. Like swine flu, it has made life extremely unpleasant for many, but unlike the H1N1 strain, it is exclusively passed between old and young. If left unchecked, it could have the far-reaching effect of rendering an entire generation between … [Read more...]
UNASSIGNED: SINEAD WAS RIGHT
You young'uns may not remember, but Sinead caused a scandal on SNL back in 1992, and got booed off Bob Dylan's stage two weeks later, all for confronting the "real enemy" as an abused Irish Catholic. It's time for a major essay on how right she was and how oblivious Dylan remains. … [Read more...]
MARISKA HARGITAY’S MOM
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"If you get quoted in The Wall Street Journal, you might get rich. If you get quoted in Rolling Stone, you might get laid." From Dan Baum's New Yorker screed, first on tweeter, now at DanBaum.com. … [Read more...]
Newspaper Blogger Shares Stage with Publicists
Science and technology columnist Dave Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph has come up with a novel approach to generating material for his GraniteGeek blog on the paper's website: He's handing over partial control to the University of New Hampshire news service. The publicity organization will "post … [Read more...]
Rearview Frontier
"Star Trek" was shot for Desilu Productions, on the lot its founders, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, bought from RKO Radio Pictures, the prolific studio that had made "King Kong," "Citizen Kane," the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals and countless B pictures like "I Walked With a Zombie." In time, … [Read more...]
GOOD MORNING MR. PHELPS: YOUR TEMPLATE
EUPHEMISM OF THE WEEK
Law, Mugar buy Opera House, Orpheum, Paradise for $22.5M "We are actively working to divest our remaining non-core assets as we continue to enhance our liquidity and de-lever our balance sheet," Michael Rapino, Live Nation's president and CEO...(from the Boston Herald). … [Read more...]