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A new U2 song is being released to radio today.  A few stations, notably BBC 1, played the song a few days ago; but it was discovered they were actually a demo or remix of the song.  All three known versions of Electrical Storm can be found here.

Everybody else is talking about Elvish it seems, so why not me?  I discovered this link, just in time, to a page of Elvish translations from The Fellowship of the Ring movie.  It’s pretty cool to get to the see the Elvish dialogue in print.
    There’s a bit of contention over one line though.  During the scene where Aragorn sends Arwen off with the wounded Frodo, he says something which does not show up in the subtitles.  Some say it is “Be iest lӮ” (“According to your wish”) whereas others (including myself) believe otherwise, if only because the supposedly Elvish phrase is not translated.

I just saw this on Pete Townshend’s The Who site (e-mail registration required).

    This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a long time. (The Music website wasn’t working this morning, but it’s up now and I just placed my order for last night’s Detroit show.)

(Note: this was originally featured in my YaBBSE message board.  Now that it’s become a buglight for spammers and other reprobates, I’ve killed off the message board and dumped these MSPaint masterpieces here [roughly at the time they were originally drawn].)

The Ten Commandments

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

 

The Exorcist

 

Fantasia

 

Field of Dreams

 

The Godfather

 

The Graduate

 

Independence Day

 

Citizen Kane

 

King Kong

 

The Matrix

 

Memento

 

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

 

North By Northwest

 

Patton

 

Psycho

 

Dr Strangelove

 

The Birds

 

The Wicker Man

 

The Wizard of Oz

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    What is up.  My name is Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry of America, and from time to time I will be “hacking” into websites such as this—using the tools legally entitled us through the Berman P2P bill—so that I can talk directly to users of The Online just like you. 
    I bet you like the rock and roll, and I bet you might have once “downloaded” a music “track” onto your computer drive.
    Gosh, you might even have “downloaded” a whole “LP”!!! 
    Well, “dog”, unfortunately, that is stealing. 
    What you have done is the same as shoplifting a “CD” at a record store.  It doesn’t matter if you downloaded the album for the heck of it and never intended to buy it anyway.  As a music enthusiast you are required to buy every album released in your demographic.  It’s as simple as that, and, like anything in life, it’s up to you to play by the rules. 
    I mean, what if there was some building where you could just walk in and take out books to read for free.  That would be ludicrous!!!  So you can see our situation. 
    Thanks for “rapping” with me.  Talk at you later, and happy listening!   

Hilary B. Rosen
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Recording Industry Association of America