Some Random Stuff...

From this week's Entertainment Weekly:

Most Obvious Fudging of the Rules

U2 & Green Day nominated for ''The Saints Are Coming''

The Academy's rules clearly state that the 49th annual Grammys is for ''recordings released during the Eligibility Year Oct. 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006.'' This rousing cover of a song by punk rockers the Skids wasn't released on iTunes until Nov. 14, 2006 — so what gives? Maybe it's because the song was originally performed during a NFL pregame show at the Louisiana Superdome in late September? If so, it seems like a crass bid to get the two mega-bands to perform on the Grammy telecast.

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Maybe so, but you don't hear me complaining.

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I found this story about the original lyrics to the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" fascinating for some reason.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past...

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This just for booshgal33: Photos and blurbs about the new movies from her favorite BFF directors, Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez.


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From the print edition, page 83:

"So how'd you like Pigeons of Shit Metal? Don't worry, that's the last show they're playing with us."

--Axl Rose's onstage review of GN'R opening act Eagles of Death Metal

I can't name a single song by EoDM, but it just confirms what a tool Axl Rose is, doesn't it?

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GGD

Video for your viewing pleasure...

I've downloaded some videos from the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas last week. I was disappointed that I missed the webcast the first night, as did some others on the flist.

These are all just web-rips of the streaming video, so the quality is not exactly Reading '04. I only downloaded the ones that I (and my flist) might be interested in. These are .asf files, which are playable with VLC or QT.

From night one:

AFI (104 MB)

Fall Out Boy (67 MB)

Foo Fighters (90 MB)

My Chemical Romance (96 MB)

I'll post video from night two tomorrow.

Enjoy.