Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley on the latter’s home turf: Lawrence Lessig, pointed out Wednesday that millions of consumers are downloading music and other materials onto their computers because slow dial-up connections make it tough to stream content quickly to a variety of devices. That’s bound to change within a few …

Brent Staples criticizes corporate control of radio in a NY Times editorial today. While his angle is the lack of protest music on the radio today and his comparisons to Vietnam are specious, he’s right on about the homogenization of radio under corporate consolidation: When a media giant swallows a …

Our very own mistress of Bloggie-nominee TexasGigs.com, Cindy Chaffin, informs us that Texas has spoken for 2003: 2003 Rockzillaworld Music Awards OK. This is Tuesday night. The awards show was Sunday night. I’m just now getting around to posting the winners. That tell you anything? It is virtually impossible to …

Johnny Paycheck, best known for “Take This Job and Shove It,” bedridden with emphysema and asthma, passed away Tuesday. He was an old, old man: Specializing in earthy, plainspoken songs, Paycheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles. His biggest hit was “Take This Job and …

Everyone from sci-fi writers to Ren and Stimpy have pondered the existential fate of the single sock. They universally come in pairs: where does the missing sock go? What can be done? Is all lost? If we can reunite socks with their long lost mates, perhaps France and America can …

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, turn and haul ass: A REFEREE threatened players with an AXE after they abused him for disallowing a goal. Players scattered in panic as the wild-eyed official chased them screaming: “Who f***ing wants it?” The unidentified ref saw red at a five-a-side …

But don’t get too excited: there are 149 other nominees: The governor of the U.S. state of Illinois who spared all inmates on death row, Pope John Paul, a Cuban dissident and Irish rock star Bono are among a near-record 150 nominees for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. “We have …

Unlike many frustrated Americans – especially right now – I like the French, I love France, I love the way French women dress and move, and I love French electronic pop (Mellow, Air). The French do seem ot have an unfortunately grand vision of their place in history, but I …

I don’t know – should the protesters be worried about the BILLIONS of non-protesters? Anyway, without further prejudicial comment, here is a site with 180 pictures from over 125 different anti-war protests from last weekend. My favorites are the assault rifle-brandishing anti-war protesters in Iraq, although many another shot is …

Pepsi is sponsoring a two-hour contest special on the WB network in the fall where the top prize is a BILLION DOLLARS: The as-yet unnamed two-hour special promises to give contestants a shot at becoming a billionaire and is being produced by the same outfit behind the ABC hit Who …