Though my prior post asserted that “meme” might not be the best way to describe Internet things, whatever. I am compelled to direct my personal lolz outward, toward you. (site) (yay)

Nancy Baym, a professor at the University of Kansas, the author of these books, this blog and one of the leading scholars thinking about the relationships between music and fans, (not to mention an old-school R.E.M. fan) attended two recent-ish conferences that approached that issue in very different ways. The “Futures of Entertainment” conference, hosted [...]

AIM IM with Mark: 1/29/09 12:55 PM
Mark: hey Eric
Me: hey Mark
Me: what’s up
Mark: are you into metal?
Mark: haha
Me: nah not really
Me: i like metal when it’s hybridized with other things
Mark: yeah, me too
Me: i really don’t know anything about metal, post like Slayer, early [...]

This guy’s absolutely fucking nuts. This is his blog (via), and he basically climbs stuff in public places (cranes, sides of buildings, things with exposed ladders) to get trippy aerial shots of cityscapes and industrial architecture. It’s like base-jumping, if instead of jumping one were to hire the “Shake Your Rump” videographer to [...]

Some half-hatched thoughts about Lil’ Wayne in a minute, but first this nice interview snip:
How do you keep track of ideas? The good thing about that is that, thank God, I’m actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget because I never [...]

I’ve done a bit of remodeling. A slight bit, and it was actually done a few weeks ago. So. I’ve moved all the links to other worthy sites to its own separate page, whittled it down a bit and added some new pals. There’s also an ever-growing section at the bottom [...]

“Our main gripe with Wynton is his self-serving rhetoric about what constitutes jazz. As he erupted on the scene in the ’80s, Marsalis gained an unprecedented bully pulpit through the media and his association with Lincoln Center. He used this power to redraw the boundaries of the entire genre, declaring that only acoustic music that [...]

“This is the latest in a string of high-profile insurance scams. Last year, Jennifer Lopez claimed her posterior had been damaged in a rear-end collision, but was later spotted taking the intact buttocks to the gym. In 2005, Eric Clapton told officials that his hands had been stolen, though a three-month investigation later revealed that [...]

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