If you've downloaded Radiohead's new album In Rainbows you might be interested in reading this editorial from the NYTimes:

Radiohead's Warm Glow

Excerpt: "Today, music lovers are left but two options: pay list price for an album, or perform what a fan might call a free download and a record company would call theft. Radiohead’s experiment suggests a ( Read more... )

You know you're an adult when you get really excited when you find out milk is on sale at Meijer.

Also -- apparently the space where Ravenwood was is open again, but now it's "Dino's". I haven't been in there yet but it looks like it's still a coffee house type place.

I thought they had just closed temporarily b/c of the construction on Academy and Stadium, but  now I'm hearing rumors that it may have closed for good! For example, check out this article from the Kzoo Gazette:

Poetry club moving because Ravenwood Coffee has closed

Has anyone heard any other info on Ravenwood and whether or not it's closed ( Read more... )

It's tragically ironic that Rolling Stone chose this cover for this week's issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/rose_mcgowan_and_rosario_dawson_fire_up_the_grindhouse 
The cover is of course promoting the movie(s) in "Grindhouse," "the most violent chick flick ever"!, as it exuberantly proclaims.

I haven't seen much commentary/ ( Read more... )

Hello, Hello everyone. I haven't written in this lately, but I may start doing so more often. I've been toying with a few ideas, such as a photo of the week (that I've taken), book and movie reviews, posting articles I've read and think are interesting, and some other things. I have not been especially busy the last several weeks as I don't have a ( Read more... )

Since my last post I have found out that the Coldplay Toronto concert is available in mp3 format for free here:

ht++tp://rapidshare.com/files/6739510/Coldplay_-_Live_in_Toronto_2006-03-23.mp3.html

(remove plus signs from beginning before entering). Directions for downloading a higher quality version of the video of the concert with greater ( Read more... )

Attention Coldplay Fans!

(As I just wrote to a good friend and fellow Coldplay fan...)
I don't know if you've been following this, but Coldplay said they were going to release a DVD of their Twisted Logic Tour, and they even filmed it -- in Toronto last March -- but for some unexplained reason they/EMI decided to cancel the release of the dvd and ( Read more... )

One more thing...

For anyone interested in knowing, I got Kim's comments on my SIP back yesterday, and the bottom line was: I passed with honors. Yay.

(Anyone want to see a movie in the near future? Borat? Is it bad to want to see Borat???)

Rumsfeld is out!!! Woohoo ( Read more... )

So I just ran into an alumni here, I assume, for Homecoming. She asked where Hicks and Dewing Commons were and I told her. "This place has changed a lot in 40 years" she said; "I bet" I replied. Then she asked if I was a student here, which is currently a somewhat awkward question for me to answer given my ambiguous student status (SIP will be done ( Read more... )