You're Still Here?
Huckleberry thinks I don't have sufficient respect for nap time.
Your ebay Article of the Day
Own the 12" acetate of The Velvet Underground with Nico for only $110,000. For that price I'd at least want an intact banana sticker.
Your Faith Was Strong, But You Needed Proof
Roger">http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/21/7-leonard-cohen-hallelujahs/">… Bourland has posted seven YouTube performances of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah": Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Sheryl Crow, Allison Crowe, kd lang, Rufus Wainwright, and John Cale.
Your Friday Dose of Gamelan (or is that Shamelan?)
Just to make Jon">http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=11855">Jon Iverson's head explode.
Your Niche or Mine?
Clarke Bustard 'fesses up that classical music is a niche market. But, he argues, these days, what isn't?
YouTube and the Law
Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."
Yum!
Bagheera, unlike Huck, found the possibilities tantalizing.
Zapped
Adam Sohmer writes: "A fine humanitarian has gone through the effort of aggregating most known Zappa videos residing on YouTube, and there's quite a bit on tap. Check out the professionally shot videos of the Yellow Shark concert and wonder why this performance has yet to see a formal release. Or just sift through the page and cancel the rest of the day's appointments."
Zen and the Art of Record Licking
There are LP collectors and then there are those freakin' record lickers.
Zombie Roaches
Ampulex compressa is a wasp that uses its stinger to temporarily paralyze and then hot-wire a cockroach so that the wasp can "drive" the larger critter home, where it can lay its egg on the roach host and seal it into a nursery. When the egg hatches, the larva chews its way into the host, where it feeds itself and then spins a cocoon.