March 10, 2009
"Prince announces a triple album set available from Target. Unless he’s going to write a hit song and play in each and every store in the chain, this is a bad deal. We’ve got enough Prince music. We want two CDs and a third of a protege? I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a life. And ...
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March 06, 2009
Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Sandy West, and Jackie Fox are The Runaways. Joan Jett and Lita Ford had successful solo careers and are still rocking hard. An achievement in Guitar Hero II is named after them. Cherie Currie went on to an acting career and is an award-winning chainsaw artist. (...
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March 05, 2009
Rock critic Dave Marsh called it "part of rock and roll legend." Truman Capote said "I've never seen anything equal to it." And the film can not legally be shown unless the director is physically present. The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 Brown Sugar Bitch Rocks Off Gimme She...
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March 04, 2009
Recommendations for worst Rolling Stones live album? For a very long time now, what's happened is that I'll occasionally start paying attention to The Rolling Stones and remember "You know, those guys were fucking amazing" - but then stop paying attention again. So in the spirit with which...
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February 23, 2009
They sold out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles. They played benefit concerts for Bosnia. And they're about to embark upon their 40th anniversary tour. To prepare, here's everything you always wanted to know about Grand Funk Railroad. Absent from the tour will be guitarist/singer Mark Farner - wh...
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February 17, 2009
"A wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals even three decades after her debut, Betty Davis combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis, her husband for a year. ... she turned Miles on to Jimi Hend...
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February 12, 2009
Just some food porn. But exceptional food porn. (for the real money shot, click on "All Sizes" above the picture and then "Original" size)...
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February 09, 2009
Trump Entertainment is about to run out of the third extension of its debt payments. Station Casinos is offering its investors as little as 10 cents on the dollar in a pre-packaged bankruptcy. Wynn Resorts is cutting staff hours and bonuses to avoid layoffs. MGM Mirage may see a default rate of 30% ...
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February 06, 2009
"To make off with hubby's fortune, yea, I think I heard of that happenin' once or twice around L.A. And… you want me to do what exactly?" He found the paper bag he'd brought his supper home in and got busy pretending to scribble notes on it, because straight-chick uniform, makeup suppose...
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December 30, 2008
Did Winamp kill my iPod? My wife handed down to me an iPod (3rd gen, I think) that she had managed from her PC using iTunes. When iTunes became irritatingly slow on my several years old XP machine, I switched to Winamp. I continued using Winamp when I replaced that machine with a 64-bit Vista a few ...
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