If posting taxpayer-funded birth control sex tapes on the web was Rush Limbaugh's answer to Catholic school sluts on the Fed contraception dole, shouldn't we also get access to his insurance-covered rehab program? Shearer also picked up two vastly under covered stories from this past … [Read more...]
Eroica: opening chords through history
Eroica opening chords … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XII:1
QUOTE OF THE MONTH "They gave Kafka to the troops," closing line of Leon Wieseltier's essay on books in the New Republic. RUNNER-UP Docked a notch for the ease of this target: Rick Santorum vs. Megadeath's Dave Mustaine, from Mother Jones. Points for plenitude. BEHIND IN MY TV Just … [Read more...]
DAMAGE FREE VULCAN
JOYCE, THE MILLMAN BLOG
Finally: ...A recent and worthy addition to the desert island disc genre comes from an unlikely source: actor Sam Neill’s blog. Neill, the star of such films as The Piano and Jurassic Park and Fox’s new J.J. Abrams-produced TV series Alcatraz, is one of the most knowledgeable and … [Read more...]
TOP CENSORED STORY OF 2011
First heard about this on Media Matters podcast, which featured Project Censored last week: ...But look at it we must, for in its own way it illustrates the problem faced by our returning war veterans writ large—a point emphasized by the fact that the hand itself is disembodied; it could belong to … [Read more...]
BOB GRUEN’S ROCK SEEN (ABRAMS)
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CEE LO, IMAGINE, AND POP DNA
OR: LEGLESS STORY INHALES THE COSMOS For Cee Lo, this ranks right up there with Gloria Estafan's bus crash as a career move. No more lines at rehab. Related articles Cee Lo Green Changes 'Imagine' Lyrics, Stokes Religious Controversy (huffingtonpost.com) Cee Lo Causes Controversy By Changing … [Read more...]
Press “1” for English!
Antiquated technology for a loser act shilling phony nostalgia: Calling Oats emergency hotline: 719-266-2837 Related articles [VIDEO] We Got Married - Christmas Special 2011 (English Sub) (koreanchingu.wordpress.com) Pocohontas Needs English Lessons (adroedgirls.com) Great article, … [Read more...]
Velvet Godfather II Underground: Festa sequence
INFOGRAPHIC SWALLOWS ONLINE MUSIC
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Top 10 Untrue Facts About Robert Johnson: Greil Marcus
10. Like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale listening to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" as they drew up the charter for the Black Panthers, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen were listening to "Hell Hound on My Trail" when in 1941 they wrote "Blues in the Night." "I want him on the session," Bing Crosby, a … [Read more...]
PATRICK MEIGHAN: FAMILY GUY WRITER’S ARREST
Image by Getty Images via @daylife REPRINTED FROM MARK CRISPIN MILLER'S News from Underground: http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occupy-la-arrest-by-p... *My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan* My name is Patrick Meighan, and I�m a husband, a father, a writer on … [Read more...]
PROG SLUT
[photo: Jim Snyder, Summerfest, Milwaukee, 2011] A friend writes: Was Rundgren good? Hadn't seen him since college, long, long ago.... TR: I didn't realize until I got down there that it was a total UTOPIA gig (tour details, reviews here). Great show if you love prog-rock. Todd dressed in … [Read more...]
1.5B EMI/UNIVERSAL DEAL APPROACHES CLOSE
Universal Music is close to sealing a $1.5 bn-plus deal to buy EMI Music, home to acts including the Beatles and Coldplay, with owner Citigrouppushing for negotiations to be … [Read more...]