I've seen about two hours' worth of tributes and biography about Farrah Fawcett, and there were lots of references to "hair," but not a single mention of the word "nipples."
Ah, well. The poster was shown often during the past 24 hours, but the obvious feature of the poster was left unspoken. It seems to be a sign of the times. The 2000's are all about coverage.
Well, goodbye to Farrah. Not that I ever paid much attention to her acting. That poster seemed to be everywhere though. So something is lost from the world. Or some things.
(Of course I'm also referring to Michael Jackson, John Calloway, and Kodachrome).
At least Entertainment Tonight has someone besides Anna Nicole Smith to keep on talking about.
I wonder if it's disrespectful now for me to keep that Michael Jackson "Mii" on my Wii. He and Darth Vader always made a good pair of opponents.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Get rid of the RIAA
I've had enough with the Recording Industry Association of America, now that a court has found for them and assessed unimaginably huge penalties against that Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rassett (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading) for "willfully" depriving the RIAA of their rightful due by downloading songs. It's ridiculous, and I don't know where they got a jury who would buy that line of reasoning, but hey, that's why they got the high powered lawyers who can do that kind of stuff.and squash ordinary people (meaning those without a ton of money) to remind us all of how imprtant and powerful they are.
So I suggest that right now, those of us who are music lovers and musicians stop doing business with the RIAA and any artists they represent. Save your money for independent artists, live venues where real music is played, and performers who don't truck with the notion of music as property. And what you have left over from not buying the latest Beyonce or Travis Tritt CD or the lastest downoalds from the iTunes Store (today the selection seems to include The Jonas Brothers, Lady GaGa, and Incubus), send to Jammie so she can get those warthogs out of her life without spending any of her own money. I assume that what she did was wrong, at least by the copyright laws that Big Entertainment has schemed to enact over the years, but it's no worse than what any of us have done.
The record labels aren't hurting because of "piracy," they're hurting (like GM and Chrysler) because they've got a product that people have decided isn't worth the money that's charged. The value proposition has weakened over the years and they don't seem to get it. And even Apple is guilty. I have songs I've bought from iTunes that I can't copy or listen to as I wish (for example, on my Blackberry phone) because they're restricted. That's stupid in this day and age.
Maybe the Old Town School of Folk Music can lead the way and have a series of Jammie Benefit concerts where they musicians play for free (for the fun and social connectedness of it, which is the reason why God created human musical ability, in my view).
So I suggest that right now, those of us who are music lovers and musicians stop doing business with the RIAA and any artists they represent. Save your money for independent artists, live venues where real music is played, and performers who don't truck with the notion of music as property. And what you have left over from not buying the latest Beyonce or Travis Tritt CD or the lastest downoalds from the iTunes Store (today the selection seems to include The Jonas Brothers, Lady GaGa, and Incubus), send to Jammie so she can get those warthogs out of her life without spending any of her own money. I assume that what she did was wrong, at least by the copyright laws that Big Entertainment has schemed to enact over the years, but it's no worse than what any of us have done.
The record labels aren't hurting because of "piracy," they're hurting (like GM and Chrysler) because they've got a product that people have decided isn't worth the money that's charged. The value proposition has weakened over the years and they don't seem to get it. And even Apple is guilty. I have songs I've bought from iTunes that I can't copy or listen to as I wish (for example, on my Blackberry phone) because they're restricted. That's stupid in this day and age.
Maybe the Old Town School of Folk Music can lead the way and have a series of Jammie Benefit concerts where they musicians play for free (for the fun and social connectedness of it, which is the reason why God created human musical ability, in my view).
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