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Sarah Slean has a way with words
Sarah Slean takes a break from poetry to share some tales from the road. Her words recall Finding Forrester: After the requisite used bookstore visit, we return to the room to find a tray full of goodies from our fairy godmother Natasha. Champagne, roses, chocolates, and fruits…heavens! I enjoy a brief moment of pretending I’m …
OK Go says “OK stop DRM”
Boing Boing points us at a New York Times piece and blog entry from OK Go’s Damian Kulash on the futility of DRM: From the blog: DRM just flat out sucks. Its most obvious problem is that it doesn’t work. No matter how sophisticated the particular software, it only takes one person to break it, …
Separated at birth?
On your left, booker extraordinaire Natasha Bishop. On your right, Pollyanna Bush.
musician bingo
Some musicians are more comfortable in studio than on stage, and it shows. While on stage, they often resort to clichés and canned lines. We should have a game called “musician bingo.” We can print out cards and bring them to shows. Here’s what I have so far: musician mentions name of city musician asks …
luke doucet is brilliant
“One day you’re gonna miss me / but you’ve gotta have a heart to have a broken one.” —Luke Doucet, Broken One
bill silva management contact info
bill silva management unhelpfully does not list their phone number or address on their web site, instead offering this lame excuse: What are the Bill Silva Presents phone and fax numbers? What are the Bill Silva Presents mailing and physical addresses? As far as the phone/fax numbers and our mailing or phisical addresses, we do …
baby got back folkified
Baby Got Back. Reminds me of Nina Gordon’s cover of “Straight Outta Compton.”
RIAA execs: we’re rich, bitches
**AA salaries: RIAA: President Cary Sherman: $1.13 million CEO Mitch Bainwol: $908,848 The MPAA folks didn’t do too shabby either: Jack Valenti: $1.4 million Executive VP Simon Barsky $380,351 Executive VP William Murray $379,559
riaa sued dead woman
while the RIAA is pondering their RICO defense, i’d like to note they sued a dead woman a few months back: The Associated Press reported that the RIAA identified Gertrude Walton as a prolific file sharer known as “smittenedkitten”. Accusing her of illegally trading music over the internet, the lawsuit was apparently filed more than …