Today was the second day of the Napa Town and Country Fair. Normally I would go this early (I do go on the Weekends), but this was Kids Day and kids where allowed in for free. Plus Joseph got to dance for the first time this year at the fair. [...]
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I’m going to see Rush tomorrow night in Concord, so I was interested to find this video pop up today. It seems their concerts have been taking the US by storm, and one reason is this intro they’ve been using. The South Parks kids form a band call lil’ Rush and proceed to go into [...]
I’m a huge Weird Al Yankovich fan. Have been so since he was in San Luis Obispo and he was on Dr. Demento. Having to many of his albums, and having so many comments about how in high school I looked like Weird Al… it was more my Driver’s License Photo looked that [...]
Antigua and Barbuda - a nation of 70,000 in an area roughly half the size of San Francisco - has formally requested that the WTO allow it to suspend its intellectual property obligations to the United Statesallow it to suspend its intellectual property obligations to the United States, AP reports.Although many in the US [...]
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OK, so I’m passing along something that was sent to me on myspace. At first I thought it was the same video I had seen a year or so ago about a young drummer. But I hadn’t seen this one. Pretty good talent for FOUR YEARS OLD. So kick back, enjoy and don’t kick yourself [...]
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Rock & roll’s legendary Elvis Costello and the Imposters will perform an exclusive live webcast concert from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday, May 14th at 8:25pm ET.Costello, who this year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of his groundbreaking debut album, “My Aim Is True,” will perform songs from his CDs, “The Best [...]
Ok, Apple is backing away from DRM. The public is starting to clamor more against DRM. And here we have a company going, no one wants to use us, so we’re going to sue those companies that spurned us and force them to pay us royalties.
Media Rights Technologies (MRT), developers of technology that [...]
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HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his [...]
Despite the major record labels’ best efforts to kill it, the single, according to recent reports, is back. Sort of.You’ll still have a hard time finding vinyl 45s or their modern counterpart, CD singles, in record stores. For that matter, you’ll have a tough time finding record stores. Today’s single is an individual track downloaded [...]
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Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine.”The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” Richards was quoted as saying by [...]
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