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Category Archives: In The News
Italy Passes Law Allowing P2P Music?
The Italian parliament passed a new copyright law in both houses that would allow citizens to share noncommercial and degraded music over the internet freely. That’s going to hurt – but some say it happened totally unknowingly – we’ll see … Continue reading
Remember Remember The 7th November
On this day… … 150 days of a Belgium without a governement, facing an unprecedented political crisis … in 1991 Frank Zappa announced to the world that he suffered from prostate cancer … at around 8:30 in the morning I … Continue reading
Do You Know What You Are?
You are what you is, you nasty, bad, naughty boy.
Posted in In The News, Politics, Sex
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Last Bang
Hell freezes over: the Rolling Stones will reportedly quit touring for good after playing London’s O2 Arena this Sunday after 45 years in the music business. The veteran rockers are believed to have declared that their current A Bigger Bang … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Music
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Hiatus
I’m going to take a little break from this blog. No worries though: regular posting should resume in the not so distant future. In the meantime have a look at our future prime-minister Yves Leterme, as he sings what he … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Personal
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Crush All Boxes
While I mull over the rather baffling results of yesterday’s Belgian elections, may I direct you toward Crush All Boxes: a Zappa-centric blog well worth keeping an eye on.
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News
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Turn It Up To 11!
Music recordings these days are becoming entirely TOO LOUD. Peter Mew, senior mastering engineer at Abbey Road studios: “Record companies are competing in an arms race to make their album sound the ‘loudest’. The quieter parts are becoming louder and … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Music
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It Was 36 Years Ago Today
… John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on stage at the Fillmore East where they performed three songs – “Well (Baby Please Don’t Go)”, “Scumbag”, and “Au”. Yoko arranged for the event to … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In The News, Pop Cult
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Gingerism
Redheads, and how they suffer. Photographer Charlotte Rushton has been chronicling the UK’s redheads for a book, Ginger Snaps. Of the 300 she snapped, only two have been spared bullying because of their hair: “I was on the Tube, pregnant, … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
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Hawking’s Zero-Gravity Flight
Doesn’t he look like one happy space cadet? “It was amazing,” Prof Hawking said after the flight. “The zero-G part was wonderful and the higher-G part was no problem. I could have gone on and on. Space, here I come!” … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Science
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The 256 vs. 128 kbps Debate
With Apple and EMI announcing “higher quality” (256 kbps) DRM-free music on the iTunes store at a slightly higher price, one might wonder whether the difference between the two can be heard at all. Are iTunes’ Premium Downloads Worth It? … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Music
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Yellow Snow
Stranger than fiction: Snow ranging in colour from light yellow to orange and carrying a distinctive “musty” odour was observed yesterday in five districts of Omsk province, which lies in western Siberia and borders Kazakhstan. Ain’t no Huskie wee-wee either, … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, In The News, Science
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Moore Some More
Michael Moore to Bush: send even MORE troops (and you go too)! Another few thousand is simply not enough to find those weapons of mass destruction! Er, I mean… bringing those responsible for 9/11 to justice! Um, scratch that. Try … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, In The News, Politics
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