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America's fave TV hero...what would he do to help his broadcast network track down internet entertainment terrorists?
What am I talking about ?
Fox has filed a subpoena dated Jan 18th, seeking the indentity of net users who uploaded clips of 24 and The Simpsons, claiming that the episodes were pirated, some were uploaded before their on-air debuts and illegally distributed. Fox has reportedly sent YouTube/Google a letter dated Jan. 8, when it realized the episodes had been uploaded.
The Hollywood Reporter reports additional info about the subpoena, granted in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. LA based video upload site LiveDigital was also served. YouTube's parent Google has a history of refusing to comply with demands for user identities, just ask the Feds.
Of course protecting one's intellectual properties in an age of rampant digital poachers, seems like a duty of a corporation sitting on piles of overpaid legal help...
What though should the caretakers of world's remaining populations of wild animals do?
In the Congo , it seems doubtful legal threats will save the few remaining Gorillas and Hippos from roving bands of poachers, armed bandits and rebel groups. Only a decade ago the area was believed to have 30,000 Hippos, and asof this month the number is barely 300.
Where are the UN troops that could intervene to save the world's few surviving endangered African animals?
Also endangered are elephants, and even large Gorillas, who are being eaten for their meat, despite the well known dangers in consuming & preparing their flesh.
Conservationists urge United Nations to send troops end the Hippo slaughter on Lake Edward by rebel factions. Approximately 25 hippos and 3 elephants have been killed in the past few days at Vitshumbi, a small fishing village on the southern shores of Lake Edward, says Robert Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who is working in the region.
I didn't watch Bush's 6th and what I understand to be final State of The Union address lasterday... I've been sick with a bit of flu, and i'm pretty sure watching even 60 seconds of his neo-con moral highground grabbing & patriotic pandering, with the scent of charred bodies ala Bagdhad cooking in his backstage pot woulda set me into a puking fit. But I read some comments in the Democrat rebuttal by newly elected VA Sen. Jim Webb that I thought I'd share...
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Regarding the economic imbalance in our country, I am reminded of the situation President Theodore Roosevelt faced in the early days of the 20th century. America was then, as now, drifting apart along class lines. The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth. The dispossessed workers at the bottom were threatening revolt.
Roosevelt spoke strongly against these divisions. He told his fellow Republicans that they must set themselves "as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other." And he did something about it.
As I look at Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. "When comes the end?" asked the General who had commanded our forces in Europe during World War Two. And as soon as he became President, he brought the Korean War to an end.
These Presidents took the right kind of action, for the benefit of the American people and for the health of our relations around the world. Tonight we are calling on this President to take similar action, in both areas. If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way.
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You know Webb, the guy who ran against incumbent bigot George Allen last year, and all he had to do to win was stand back and watch Allen implode.
Not only does Webb invoke the patron saint of Democrats: FDR, and the last decent & truthful Republican President in history, Gen. Eisenhower, but, I also like the pushy intonations of his last sentence. It strikes me like a bit of vintage Frampton when he had his lion mane going...
We'll Show You The Way...
Here's now baldy Peter in a semi-recent appearance jamming with Ringo & friends a few years back on one of his late 70's multiplatinum classix...
Peter Frampton w/ Ringo Starr's All Star Band - Show Me The Way
Speaking of classic rock, this next track is a cover of probably my favorite Sublime song, Bradley's vocal always employed the right amount of pathos with his punky reggae party 'tude and this track has long burned a hole in my heart.
I helped record some bonus live material that was released on the Badfish EP when the band was still together, and damn, I had a lot of fun hanging round their van bound vortex back in the day. It still hurts when I think of what a senseless loss Brad was, and how his substance abuse issues couldn't override "All The Love That He Found..."
Here is a semi-obscure cover version of Badfish by a band around before Sublime ever got really rolling No Use for A Name. Despite my never being much a fan of NUFAN and my fears of them ruining a fave, I found it ain't half bad...
I don't care which Shifflet is wringin' the neck of the guitar, it still hits the spot, especially when they drop the pop punk veneer for a few precious seconds during the break.
It comes from one of the many tribute discs floating about, tributes that generally do little to really satisfy the demand for Sublime's millions of converts in the almost 11 years since Brad's death in May 1996...
The bands fans grew to include everyone from Hulk Hogan to numerous 4th wave punk/ska acts like Slightly Stoopid, and Spunge. No Use For A Name - Badfish
My pal Chuck Prophet has annointed me with the news that he'll be performing some tunes in Park City on Friday as part of a Sundance ASCAP Showcase... and for those of ya unable to swing by Sundance this year, I have a semi-exclusive Chuck Prophet demo track that's never been released commercially down below for those who wanna be in the know...
Chuck's also got some music in the soundtrack to a grimly funny, provocative teen angst flick about vagina dentata called Teeth that's screening there this weekend...
Apparently Chuck decided to make the journey to Utah himself to climb
"the mythical mountain where hard-core cinephiles and other Hollywood types dressed in black gobble up movies like handfuls of Goobers and Raisinets. We're looking forward to celebrity snow bunny Blackberry sightings, being locked out of sold out screenings and free parties, not free parties, snaking bathroom lines and to coming home with pockets heaving with knick knacks, and our bags bulging swag
Look for Chuck Prophet this Friday Jan 19th at The Star Bar, 268 Main Street in Park City at 6:00 pm and then for his song during the end credits of Teeth...
Fri. Jan 19, 8:30pm, Racquet Club Sat. Jan 20, 11:00am, Yarrow (press screening) Sat. Jan 20, 9:00pm, Tower (Salt Lake City) Sun. Jan 21, 12:00pm, Eccles Thu. Jan 25, 11:30pm, Library Fri. Jan 26, 11:30am, Racquet Club
Also at Sundance, one of the cooler Texans to ever challenge me to a drinking sesion is Jesse Dayton, and aside from the fact he is unafraid to out guzzle me, he will also be singing in Park City Utah this week,
watch for him at Suede on Tuesday...
Here's a tasty back catalog chestnut from that fine yodeling fool from Beaumont who's likely the biggest , baddest country star that ya never heard of... He's the unlikely anti-hero country punk who actually played with his heros like Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Ray Price and sings like George Jones at the peak of his nocturnal powers...
here's an MP3 from his 1st solo CD on his own Stag records label called Tall Texas Tales...
Other artists mingling and performing in Park City this week include Elliott Sharp, Blessid Union Of Souls, Silversun Pickups, Donovan, Jill Sobule, Two Gallants and many others
Of course I'll be far away back in California, it figures... But i've done the Park City shuffle previously and I'm not sure I ever paid down my credit card debt on that from the last time...
Here's a pic of my get up I wore during a junket to hype the film I was involved with called D.I.Y or Die : How To Survive As An Independent Artist.
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Not a bad lil documentary actually of D.I.Y indie arts scenesters and what motivates 'em. Designed as a quick & dirty "celebration of the underdog" it deals with why many artists & innovators outside the mainstream do what they do, regardless of a continuous paycheck. Amongst the indie-rati featured are Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Craig Newmark of CraigsList.com, Ron Asheton of The Stooges, Lynn Breedlove of Tribe 8, Dave Brockie of Gwar , Mike Watt, Richard Kern , Beth Lisick, Lydia Lunch and yep, even lil' ol' me...
It was directed by my old pal Michael Dean, and that's him up there on the left, taking a mock note on his Palm while I jabber out a mock distribution on the cell. In the end we ended up screening as part of the many side fests that parasite off the Sundance hubub, and we made some unique and lasting contacts in the indie cinema world.. as well as met a few freaks & phonies...
and here's a chance to listen to the entire 25 meg soundtrack of the film, sans pix of course...
Lately Michael Dean's been busy putting together other documentary projects such as the one the did on Last Exit To Brooklyn author Hubert Selby Jr. as well as working endlessly on his books, and his latest fetish, web audio podcasts...
If yer an mp3 junkie you can hear more of Michael's relentless rants & music over at Clone The Homeless.com
I also recently hooked him up upon mutual requests with my afforementioned pal Chuck, who in addition to music has now entered the realm of book editing for Chronicle Books. He's working on a collection of rock n roll road stories and will likely include a CD, some of which will feature some possible audio tweaking by Mr. Dean.
ya see, it's a small whirled after all...
So anyhow, earlier I said I'd post an exclusive Chuck Prophet track that likely none of y'all have ever heard...
It's sort of a quick one day demo thing he did for some folks awhile back with leftover studio time...
While not the most epic track he's ever cut, it's a quick and dirty taste of what easy rolling pop rawk tuneage the guy can likely churn out in his sleep...
Other tings going down this weekend on the radar screen of my increasingly insular whirled...
Speaking of Chronicle Books, rawk photographer Peter Ellenbyrecently put together his Every day Is Saturday indie rawk scene overview with many of his cool on the fly pix, a 20+ track CD included and a forward by John Doe. In fact , He'll be in NYC (actually Brooklyn) on Feb 1st at the Hancock Gallery doing a photoshow and book signing in Brooklyn, with a live set by none other than hipster lite rawkin faves Nada Surf...
Nada Surf - If You Leave (Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark cover )
My friends Miles & Kyle and their band SLIGHTLY STOOPIDgot to open for Dave Matthews Band a few years back and are eager to do it again this year on Dave's 2007 Summer Tour. They want any fans to go HERE and let Dave's booking agents know how bad you want to see SLIGHTLY STOOPID on the road again with DMB!
Along with Slightly Stoopid, I also suggested Matthews try getting Gogol Bordello or even a reunited Van Halen. Matthews stage presence redefined boring for me, and I was likely never was so happy to split some never ending gig than that one...
If yer a diehard fan, I guess you'd be happy that he played for f-ing ever, but as far as show biz value, all the songs sounded the same, the guy barely moved, and didn't even bother to shave or wear anything more exciting than a grey hoodie.
I had no idea why 20,000 people a night clamor to his shows... maybe my lil bro who used to hire him to play his frat keggers in South Carolina could shed some light on his appeal.
all I know is right about now... it's beer thirty, and i gotta go out and get me some of that tasty barley juice...
enjoy the tuneage...
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