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1. Is it glowing?
2. Is there a smoking, glowing crater where the plant used to be?

If both are no, the back to napping.

You're really overthinking things. This is all you need.

I'm sorry, but canned tuna doesn't belong on a pizza. On the other hand, though, corn goes well. Now if only the commoner in Israel could figure out that pizza is nasty when it's as dry as cardboard...

Anyway back to my phone call...

Yes, i'd like to order 3 large cheese pizzas for... uhm... Guy Penis...

(Sorry, I sound like I got some sort of small head on me or something...)

Hendrix liked feedback, and so did his fans. If bubble-gum popping 0.99 single buying kids like it compressed, let 'em have it that way. They can discover "Unplugged, fresh and undistorted" later.

Damn shame what happened to The Red Velvet Car (compressed into oblivion), but I guess I'm just getting older faster than the target audience the producers of my favorite artists are aiming for.

Here are some Tools that need to receive a Darwin award.

Isn't there someplace a little less batshit, bugfuck insane than freep that might have a copy of that testimony? I wouldn't trust those brain dead poo flinging monkey fucks to wipe their own asses, let alone quote Dee Snider correctly.

I don't know if you'd consider VH1 to be any less batshit, but HERE it is.

you missed a point: the "gravity" (centrifugal force) would not be perpendicular to the surface. midway between the "equator" and the "pole", it would be at a 45 degree angle to the floor.

you could, I suppose, build a "stepped sphere" ( like the hats in Devo's "Whip It" http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/devo/videos.jhtml/ ), which is essentially a set of cylinders decreasing in radius from the equator to the poles, to solve the gravity problem. this results in the stellar light always arriving at the same apparent non-directly-overhead (except at the equator) angle. that would make for some interesting tropisms.

Is it "What does it take?" by Honeymoon Suite?

There's a music video of it at vh1.

I have never called them that. In my world it has always been Apple records or just Apple. I seldom refer to Apple computers as Apple computers. I refer to them as Macs or G5s ;)

Actually someone might confuse Apple Corps with Apple computers but I doubt they will confuse them with Apple records.

I don't make a penny off this but the Apple Corps thing rang a bell. House was the bell. It is a good book (as is The Soul of a New Machine) and Apple Corps were the contractors building the house.

They haven't been sued yet.

Yeah, I know... music.... houses.... no connection and no one is going to confuse the two.

Apple Computer.... Apple records.... Apple sells music.... Apple sells Beatles music... Apple doesn't sell Beatles music... my brain hurts!

Anway, I seem to recall somewhere where the agreement stated that Apple (the computer one) would not sell physical media. Can't find any evidence at the moment.

From TFA: Apple Corps was started by The Beatles in 1968 and is still owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widow of John Lennon and the estate of George Harrison.

The last I heard they don't need any money.

Back in 1970 Paul sued the others over a money issue. Read the part about Allen Klein.

Today they are worth a lot of money.

So who wants the money from the suit? I would guess it is not one of the original Beatles.

qz

Do you want to get sued?

From VH-1's Todd Rundgren biography:

[Rundgren] kicked off the year with Faithful, an album that split into original pop material and re-creations of '60s chestnuts from the Yardbirds, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beach Boys. His resurrection of "Good Vibrations" brought him his first Top 40 hit in three years.

How does that (the cover half) compare with the hypothetical situation?

Said situation doesn't say anything about whether you pay the appropriate royalties for your recreation. If you do, what's the difference between this and Faithful?

Whoa...I had to look that one up. Never saw "Quark," but I heard it was pretty funny.

Actually, I was thinking that you were setting up an episode of "The Surreal Life".

"Tonight, old TV and movie stars fly the Space Shuttle and have to pick up garbage on...'The Surreal Life'."

The Shamen. Oh, sorry, you must be from America, the birthplace of all culture. Never mind.

Do me a favor - broaden your horizons a bit.

VH1: The Shamen
Techno Guide: The Shamen

Remember when MTV was only about Music Videos?

Ah, but that was way before young people needed soap operas directed towards them. So, MTV became the soap opera channel for teenagers and young 20 somethings, and then the created VH1 with the motto "Music First". Clearly they are living up to their motto by their schedule. Well, 3AM to 10Am at least.

Allofmp3.com makes huge profits because they pay nothing to the artist and have no "rights" to the music they distribute.


The RIAA makes huge profits because they pay nothing to the artist and have no "rights" to the music they distribute.


Believe me, those artists are already getting fucked perfectly well in the good ole USA. I wonder whether you're an RIAA mole spreading the FUD, or just an innocent who's gradually come to believe it.

Assuming the latter, I recommend you take a few minutes to read The Problem With Music by Steve Albini. Back in the 80s Albini was a respected engineer/producer in the alternative rock scene. I think you'll find his article very informative...

peace, cya

what we need is new concept, new way of interacting, new styler ( flava flav? )

As a fan of rap of all kinds, I must say, he butt ugly. I don't know, that's just me. I wouldn't let him style anything, much less my GAMES!?!

Side note: Strange Love indeed.

Upset? They'd go INSANE! They sell so much Spam in Hawaii (6.9 million cans a year) that there's actually competition in the canned meat trade that Hormel has had to try to counter withSpecial Hawaiian Collector's Edition Spam.

That reminds me of an episode> of VH1's Totally Obessed that I saw a couple of weeks ago. The show features people who are (big surprise) totally obessed with certain things. This episode had a lady and her husband who had raised 4 geese and a duck as their children. They litterally dress them, bring them out to eat, and take them on trips. If I recall correctly, their they missed the birth of their (human) grandchild so they could drive across country to adopt one of their "children". I'll admit that they didn't talk about any watch-dog like properties of the kids, but one did attack the camera....

Like when my son and I watch a Tivoed episode of Oobi or Maisy, or take in Finding Nemo or Potty Time With Bear together... or those evenings after the boy goes to bed, when my wife and I stay up and watch Surreal Life and some good movies ( actually, right now we're working through The Sopranos ).

In all seriousness ( although, maybe sadly, we do all of the above, and my son is an expert on the Noggin and Sesame Street websites ), my post was *designed* for the "Funny" rating it now has... still, it is true that Tivo and Netflix are my two favorite entertainment sources. I'd probably give up my horses first, if only because they're more expensive...

I'm only posting on /. because I'm at work, what else am I going to do? Oh, yea, right...

Music critics rule! We all know that Led Zeppelin weren't successful.
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Music critics rule! We all know that Led Zeppelin weren't successful.
</sarcasm>

It's because your favorite musician is probably using this effect.

Especially if your favorite musician is this guy.

I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children. We teach the children. Puffy is good, but Wu-Tang is the best.

• Shaolin
• Killer Beez (on a swarm!)
• The Brooklyn Zoo
• Dollar Dollar Bills

here's a link. holy crap that's messed up!

The only areas that can compete with Japan on the creative side of things are the United States and Europe. "The Triplets of Bellville," aka "Bellville Rendezvous" was a staggering accomplishment out of France, and so is the show known in the US as "Totally Spies."

In the US, "Teen Titans" is totally conceived of and posed out over here then sent to Korea and Taiwan. Yes, they overdo it with Manga cliches sometimes (they are more dependent on the visual vocabulary even than most Japanese shows) but it is by and large an entertaining series, certainly the best action show to come out of the US since the original "Batman: The Animated Series."

The labor-intensive stuff has always been sent overseas...it's been the MO since the '60s. It's been like this not only in the US but also in Japan. Take a look at "Animation Runner Kuromi" sometime. It's not a great OAV, but it has a lot of insight as to the similarities and differences between the Japanese method of animation production and the US method of animation production. Both have one main thing in common: once the layouts (key-frames, poses) are done, the layouts, storyboards and so on are sent to South Korea, Taiwan, the PRC or The Phillipines for inbetweening (plussing) and occasionally still ink and paint and photography.

The Japanese differ from the US in that the first thing that is produced on a US show is the "track" (taped dialogue) and in Japan the "track" is the last thing done along with music and sound effects. This difference I chalk up to the divergent influences on Japanese as opposed to US animation. Tezuka Osamu, the Kami-sama of anime and the person who came up with a lot of the production methods used in Japan today was heavily influenced by the Fleischer Brothers. Character Design theories, the recording of a soundtrack *after* the animation is finished, even the way pegbars are oriented all come from the Fleischer Studio's production methods.

The big influence on US animation was Termite Terrace, the original Warner Bros Animation facility. Familiar methods like the audio soundtrack being laid down first, pegbars at the bottom of the page rather than the top, and the critical importance of the storyboard are all Warner Bros production methods. Disney used a similar system too, but Disney was not as big of an influence outside its buildings than WB was. MGM's animation unit also relied on WB theories. Hanna, Barbera, Freleng, Avery, Clampett...all these people went on to basically invent the US TV animation industry in the 1960s.

The labor intensive parts of animation will always go to the lowest bidder. Japan's strength is in its creative talent, which has a potent "farm club" in the Manga industry and even draws on the producers of fan-produced "Doujinshi" for future talent.

One thing that's interesting: more animation is being produced from start to finish in America now than at any time since the '50s. South Park is not farmed out to overseas production houses because it's 100% created in Maya with 2D "cut-outs" created in 3D software. The Williams Street series that are the backbone of Adult Swim are 100% done domestically. And Camp Chaos, the Flash geniuses behind "Napster Bad!" are now doing a Flash animated series for VH1, Ill-ustrated.

As long as the talent pipeline continues to flow, Japan will have no shortage of good series. It makes no big different who's drawing the layouts or "plussing out" the show...it's all about the creativity.

I guess have the obligation to address your issue since your asking a perfectly legitimate question.

Start here at VH1 one hit wonders.

You're kind of correct - the statement was taken out of context. What people are tired of is paying a bunch of money for something that is played over and over on the Radio anyway. So much so that you get tired of hearing it and that Artist then becomes associated with one song and is thought of as a one hit wonder in which cannot ever achieve the same greatness.

Hey, my cousin was backup vocals and bass in some of that "campy 70s music", you insensitive clod!

Actually it was a hit song in 1968, "Nobody But Me", by the Human Beinz. w00t!

and has named Kevin Rollins, the current president and chief operating officer of Dell, as his successor.

Damned Emacspeak, I thought it said Kevin Rowland. :-/

Just ask Ludacris... "TV in the middle of my steering wheel"

You think I'm joking?

Head... about... to... EXPLODE!!!

"Richard Thompson" is a strange way to spell this guy's name. You know, he sang with The Smiths. He's got the most depressing music I've ever heard.

Well, outside REM, of course. Depressing not only for their music (I find Green especially depressing), but none of them even graduated from that famed institution of lower learning, the University of Georgia!

This isn't a new phenomenon. There was a recent show on VH1 discussing how this was done on the old KISS double-live album from the 70's. They went into the studio and overdubbed certain parts to tighten up the music and gloss over mistakes.

Not sure how to make this a link, but here's the URL for that story: http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1457874/10012002/ id_0.jhtml

to make it a link, type it as <a href="http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1457874/100 12002/id_0.jhtml"> the text of the link</a>
and yes, there is a space between the a and href, it wasn't added by slashdot

for those to lazy to copy and paste

Moby spoke out against Eminem's lyrics last year, saying that they're irresponsible.

http://www.vh1.com/news/stories/1453610.jhtml

now he wants me to run out and spend 20 dollars on his critically panned shite, when he's planning on ramming it down my throat anyway every time I peep the Simpsons? So he wants me to pay to listen to it, then have someone else pay him to force me to listen to it.

Call me Ishmael, but i'd like to hit him w/ a harpoon my own self.

Hammer is a name doomed to failure.

If AMD had named the chip Hammer, then we would expect to see it on some "where is it now" show after a couple years.

She is involved in a heavy court battle with the surviving members of Nirvana. Why would they do that and involve scores of well paid lawyers, if the contracts really paid artists practically nothing?

But, what ever happened to Milli Vanilli