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POPSThe "Chicks" Rock The Grammy's I have been a fan of the Dixie Chicks since their hit "Wide Open Spaces". I did not drop my support when Maines put her foot in her mouth. When Clear Channel was promoting Chicks bashing, I still did not falter. When their new record came out, I was one of the first to buy it. I played "Not Ready To Make Nice" loud enough and long enough to possibly annoy my neighbors. In fact, it's my main ringtone on my phone. I am very proud of the Dixie Chicks, today. I think they are good musicians and I am proud that they continued to speak their mind when the rest of the Country community wanted to stone them. I don't need role-models in my old age, but I am proud of their example and I point to that when I talk to my kids about using their voice to speak up against those things that they are against, even when the world is against them.
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POPSObama Killed Michael Jackson! The first paragraph is from the cigar-sucker's own web page. The rest, and below, is from politicsusa.com. Rush’s comparison does not work. It doesn’t make sense. Partisan politics can’t be applied to something as random as a celebrity death. Ronald Reagan had as little to do with Jackson’s success, as Obama did with his death. Jackson’s talent made him the world’s biggest star in the 80s, not Ronald Reagan, and Obama did not cause Jackson’s heart trouble. The wingnut pundits are doing everything they can to cast Obama in a bad light. He's a tyrant and a dictator, but they descend to trivialities like his choice of mustard or his reaction to a reporter's intrusive ringtone. The cognitive dissonance it takes to agree with these people is becoming more conflicted every day. What's next - blame Obama for the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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POPSMugtada al-Sadr keeps the truce for now.... Cont.... Such tales abound. Sudani said she'd heard of troops bursting into a woman's home and arresting her four sons, as a soldier threw the mother to the ground and put his boot on her head. Iraqi troops are said to have seized gasoline canisters from a Sadr City resident and distributed them to others, claiming they were from the government. Ali Jassim, 30, another resident, said his cousin's phone rang at a checkpoint with a ringtone containing a chant about Sadr. When soldiers heard it, they slapped him, he said. Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, has suffered a series of setbacks since last spring. It lost control of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, and the southern city of Amara after Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ordered his forces to retake those areas. Many charge that Maliki is waging a political war against his former allies in time for fall's provincial elections.
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POPSMusic Links The page Music Technology Links of the site of Podcomplex contains a long list of links about music theory, the physics of sound, tips on setting up your computer to create music and more. Below, a part of that list, with some topics of general interest.
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POPS "Why Don't You Shut Up?" Ring-Tones,T-Shirts,Mugs "It's a form of protest," a 21-year-old student in Caracas told the Miami Herald. "It's something that a lot of people would like to tell the president." Companies selling the ringtones have avoided legal problems concerning breach of the king's image rights by using an actor to voice the line.
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POPSBeatles Not Yet Coming To iTunes? My ex-boss Peter Kafka hears from a source that Apple's press event next week won't include the unveiling of Beatles downloads, appearing to throw cold water on renewed press speculation that the Fab Four have concluded a deal with iTunes. Interesting tidbit about iPhone ringtones too. - Louis Hau
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POPSCD and DVD cover searchengine I found some covers that I was surprised were there. The results can be narrowed with title and artist. Some of the searches can give the idea how many names can be used by so many people, in different ways. I tried Face to Face, because it was a 70's Australian Album and wasn't sure if it was a CD. The range of results can be wide. Can make surprises more likely
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POPSWorld's First Silent Ringtone Available ...the listener may hear a call - phantom silence - when there's no one on the line... Even those who don't use it as a ringtone have the potential to experience it, in the silence of an unanswered call.
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