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From Mikey Fremer comes Beyond the Pale's first music video. They aren't the first group I know of to compare Jewish liturgy and Rastafarian song (there's "By the Rivers of Babylon" of course), but this one's a goodie.
Mark Cuban has a new business model for the music industry: Give it away.
He calls it Googlenomics.
It's stupid to lose control of something as simple as sleep, but I've been having trouble with it.
I should be more specific. I've been having trouble staying with it. I've been having trouble staying asleep. Falling asleep is easy: I get in bed, I'm gone. Invariably, however, some time around 3 or 4am — maybe because an outside noise cuts a hole into my dream, or maybe because the dream itself is somehow unpleasant, or maybe because JA once told me that most people who die in their sleep do it at around 3 or 4am, when their body temperatures are lowest — I wake up.…
I can't remember the last film review I read in Archeology. Traci Ardren, an AP at the University of Miami, who has studied classic Maya society for the 20 years, while living in Yucatan villages, has a different view of Mel Gibson's movie than the one you probably read in your local paper.
Q: What composer is also a shoe size?
A: Fauré.
Steakhausen.info has many more bad musical puns.
I was very sad to learn of the death of Ahmet Ertegun, one of the three visionaries behind Atlantic Records. Having met him several times, it makes perverse sense that he would have met his end due to complications from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert. He was a man of music to the end.
Several years ago, back when Primedia still had a luxury box at Madison Square Garden, the ad staff took a number of Atlantic Records staffers to a concert. I tagged along as trained monkey slash editor you could lay your hands on. When it was my turn to play nice with these prospective advertisers, I…