Republicans believing the ‘enemy’ is the Iraqi people, and that we should not pull out and be ‘defeated.’
(the real enemy in my mind is US. That’s US-A.) HERE.
The new ‘Tupperware’ Party: Green Cleaning Products. Everyone needs to do their part to save this dying planet. HERE
The littlest things have the biggest impacts in the end. HERE
& HERE
Another Earth-Like planet, maybe we can trash ours and move HERE
To my eye to see someone finally get it. Someone in the business that gets what art and music are all about, what voices they have and how they can be nurtured into fruition by purely supporting their vision and encouraging them without telling them how they have to do it. Trent’s world of music has been a strong one since he started, and he didn’t take shit from Labels that treated him poorly (thus leaving TVT for Interscope on certain conditions). This article explains his approach, and really shows how a musician can have a lasting career without insane amounts of corruption. We see so few of these artists today, for one reason of another. It doesn’t mean they aren’t out there (Underworld? Yes. Modest Mouse? Yes.), and it doesn’t mean there aren’t great groups around that will follow in this path with their future careers (too many hopefuls to list, but most have not been around since 1989, so we won’t know for sure). We can only hope. By the way, I love the album. It has it quirks and loses me lyrically at times, but for the most part, it’s Trent to the bone. Don’t forget to read the comment in this article as well, he’s just as important to it. Blog Post about NIN
Wow, nice to know these states are making the apology to slavery ‘official.’ Firstly, why is there an official vote for an apology? And second, I wonder what the percentage of apologetic people is in those states. It shouldn’t just be about the southern states though, this whole country is to blame for slavery. Perhaps we can make that ‘official’ too. Now that we took care of centuries-old issues, let’s deal with the ones we have now. Such as not taking care of people laid-off in towns that survived previously because of one company (think GM, Ford, Chevy, etc), who up and left the town to rot. That might be a nice jesture.
“CUPERTINO, California—April 2, 2007—Apple® today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today—128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM—at the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.
“We are going to give iTunes customers a choice—the current versions of our songs for the same 99 cent price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 30 cents more,†said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year.â€
“EMI and iTunes are once again teaming up to move the digital music industry forward by giving music fans higher quality audio that is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings, with no usage restrictions on the music they love from their favorite artists,†said Eric Nicoli, CEO of EMI Group.
With DRM-free music from the EMI catalog, iTunes customers will have the ability to download tracks from their favorite EMI artists without any usage restrictions that limit the types of devices or number of computers that purchased songs can be played on. DRM-free songs purchased from the iTunes Store will be encoded in AAC at 256 kbps, twice the current bit rate of 128 kbps, and will play on all iPods, Mac® or Windows computers, Apple TVs and soon iPhones, as well as many other digital music players.
iTunes will also offer customers a simple, one-click option to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free format for 30 cents a song. All EMI music videos will also be available in DRM-free format with no change in price.
The iTunes Store features the world’s largest catalog with over five million songs, 350 television shows and over 400 movies. The iTunes Store has sold over two billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over 1.3 million movies, making it the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.
With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod® and the ability to turn previously purchased songs into completed albums at a reduced price, the iTunes Store is the best way for PC and Mac users to legally discover, purchase and download music and video online.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and will enter the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.”
Thank you Apple and EMI. Now sit back and reap the benefits. I’m sure you’re gonna love it.
