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I knew it was coming but hoped I was just underestimating Sony. Beatallica is a hilarious band that sounds (so much it is scary) like Metallica but plays Beatles songs (or Beatles songs as if Metallica wrote them).
And then the lawyers needed to bill some hours and decided to grace Beatallica with a lot […]

Now that M.A.L. has a virtual lockdown on Charlotte’s titties (and is fighting tooth and fake nail to keep all the talent in their corner), Rick’s Cabaret decided to step to the plate, expanded to Charlotte, and give TMC a little help fighting the good fight. TMC also started in Texas and word is […]

Just Let Go the first video from Fischerspooner’s new CD, The Odyssey is now on the Fischerspooner Videos page.

The movie that started it all, Deep Throat, is being re-released and is the subject of a new documentary. That documentary, Inside Deep Throat, is the subject of a review on today’s Fresh Air:

Fresh Air from WHYY, February 11, 2005 - Film critic David Edelstein reviews Inside Deep Throat, a new documentary that […]

The current Social Security outlook scares me but this new privatization plan scares me more. Worse than that? The fact that privatization doesn’t even try to address the current problems with Social Security and just adds more layers of problems instead.

Don’t pay attention to the details behind the curtain, we’re just […]

I recently installed Napster To Go and was surprised at how fast I uninstalled it. The feature-set looked great and the app itself was beautiful (I prefer the Napster GUI hands down over iTunes and Rhapsody) but once I actually used (and/or tried to use) Napster To Go, I was quickly disappointed.
Napster combines the […]

[Defendant Gertrude Walton’s daughter Robin] Chianumba said she faxed a copy of her mother’s death certificate to record company officials several days before the lawsuit was filed, in response to a letter from the company regarding the upcoming legal filing.
“I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it […]

Buying mp3 (or wma or aac or ogg or etc) files still seems like a dumb idea to me. They aren’t high enough quality and they don’t have the sense of permanence that a CD (or even a cassette) has. To me they seem disposable. That’s why I prefer a subscription service […]