links for 2005-08-31
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MTV's Laguna Beach "gets its tension from observing how rich, beautiful adolescents with few discernible responsibilities - no curfew, no housework - introduce Sturm und Drang into their otherwise unfettered lives."
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"The folkies interviewed in the documentary still don't know what hit them; they complain that they couldn't understand the words, or it was just way too loud, or it was distorted, and they recall that Pete Seeger may or may not have tried to take a hatch
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"The interesting question here is how the gallery system can create value around an object that is typically given away, around a practice that is anarchic, and around an experience with the object that is by its nature transitory."
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"The album is still a defining artistic statement and the de facto measure of an artist’s career. Any musician worth his/her salt has put out a good album. Not a good single. Not a good MP3 download. A good album."
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"Thanks to a $600,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and a philanthropist's $250,000 donation, the process of re-licensing material for Eyes on the Prize has begun."
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The quotation: "My only regret about being gay was that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short." - Armistead Maupin
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"One has the world’s best culture; the other, perfect weather. Both are dirty, defined by expensive rents, and full of citizens who say their city’s the best. A fair and balanced guide to choosing between New York and San Francisco."
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"Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman." Um...no.
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For Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, charities that provide relief efforts to humans and animals.
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Myspace has slow page loading times, an embedded media player that automatically starts playing upon load, pages that break my browser's back button, and gives me random "unexpected error!" messages when I try to download mp3s.
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Craigslist's New Orleans section has become an impromptu community for those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Interviews with some really great artists so far: I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Shearwater, Scout Niblett. Coming up: The Baptist Generals, and the Wrens.
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