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Without pomp nor flourish, the 10 gauge hole in my septum slept through its 10th birthday. It was born on a warm October day in Boone, NC in 1994.

It isn’t hard to prove the RIAA wrong when they complain that p2p downloads are hurting the music industry; all you have to do is test the theory. Wilco did. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was streaming on the web before it became their best selling CD and gained $15,000 for Doctors Without Borders [...]

If this story is true, I’ll have to rethink my plan to buy an XBox until a fix is found. I have no desire to buy a machine that I can’t alter, be it a car, a PC, or anything else. Especially when the XBox mod chips add the functionality that makes an [...]

Russell Jones aka Big Baby Jesus aka Unique Ason aka Osirus aka Dirt McGirt aka Dirt Dog aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard complained of chest pains in a recording studio yesterday (Saturday), fell over, and later died. Permanent damage from earlier (pre-prison) drug abuse? Relapse and OD? A little of both? Details [...]

Fischerspooner are putting the finishing touches on their second album in NYC with French producer Mirwais. So far the band have collaborated on tracks with David Byrne, Linda Perry, Susan Sontag and Tony Hoffer although the final track listing for the album remains undecided. The album is tentatively titled ‘Odyssey’, is being mixed [...]

This is the best idea I’ve heard since cocktails in sports waterbottles (for the shower):
instead of paying $40 for a 1.5 liter bottle of Grey Goose vodka, you buy the cheapest shit in the store ($10 per 1.5l) and filter it through a charcoal Brita water filtration system ($15 system/$7 for 2 filters) five times. [...]

Scott (one of the guys I was cursing in this post) drops the science for us:
Hi Shannon I booked the show about six months ago. Savvas said I had to cancel so he could do Freaky Wack. I was pissed but I offered to compromise. The Freaky Wack theam this time is “Wack to The [...]

Apparently the slack bastards booking bands at the Steeple forgot to write it on their bulletin board or something and the show has been cancelled and they will be holding the return of Charlotte’s most underwhelming event, Freaking Slack.
Looks like I’ll be at The Room that night. Etheric is playing along with DJ Tomato [...]

Don’t waste your time or money. This movie will eventually be on HBO and you can almost consider it free at that time so it will be worth your money then (but still not your time) . This is a perfect example of the type of movie that pisses me off: a cool [...]

Captured! By Robots is one of the most amazing bands/performances/art pieces I have seen in my life. One man and a band of robots on stage performing something that is somewhere between a concept album (if they’d record the damn things) and a musical or opera. Except that the same cast come back [...]