It was Peter Gabriel's 1983 "Plays Live" album. Both records ( Read more... )

Anyone noticed that there aren't enough hours in the day?

...starting in the New Year. I've got a New Year's Resolution that a friend and I are making to go through our complete music collections and actually listen to everything bit by bit. I'm also thinking of culling and we are both considering trying to write a piece about this and see about publishing it in a music 'zine we both read religiously. ( ( Read more... )

Yes, I know someone is probably thinking, "Well, whaddya expect?!? It is a bunch of random headlines!" Sure, fine. But, they've got some sort of algorithm for sorting and searching for stuff. They've got spiders, right ( Read more... )

May he rest in peace; but, seriously, that man pissed me off in 1983 with his I'm-too-stupid-to-wear-a-condom-and-it-is-all-the-woman's-fault-anyway song Billie Jean...then there was some claim that this was written about a "mentally ill fan". Great. Write a song being nasty and then make it into something about how downtrodden you are and for good ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/newyorkers/5285785.html

So, to make it even worse, he is protesting people doing something to make it better.

Anyone want to join the counter protest?

If you want to check out his own schedule, he has kindly posted it -- and several screeds about why what he does is so important -- at that bastion of christian kindness ( Read more... )

Check it out. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/business/energy-environment/11oil.html
In the print edition, this was on page B-7, below the fold. Buried.

I was reading it on the subway yesterday and found myself laughing (painfully) and looking around to see if there was anyone I could turn to and say, "Hey! Did you see THIS?!?!"

Honestly? I'm lousy at keeping diaries, at following through with long-term record keeping that isn't about my checking account. I've been wondering why I started this thing ( Read more... )

Well, not exactly. More like a recommendation. Uh, make that an order.

You MUST see Revengers Tragedy and, no, the lack of an apostrophe is not a mistake, sadie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286921/

I just recently bought it. Now, this alone is a big deal as I rarely buy videos/dvds/whatever-the-media-is-that-fills-this-ecological-niche-these-days. ( Read more... )

Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?


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