I haven’t listened to it yet, but Sunny points us to an in-depth interview –and live performance– with Sheryl Crow on NPR’s Fresh Air. Stayed up watch her perform a pretty good version of Doctor My Eyes on Letterman. The woman looks fine. Downloading her new album, Detours.
Gabe and Max explain “How to get the Dream Life of Your Dreams Using the Internet.” This is the kind of amateur video that Hollywood should be very concerned about. This is bone dry humor of the first order. Fax us your email address now! [Thanks, David]
“I’ve never made a speech like this at a political event before. So what am I doing here?” De Niro said. “I’m here because finally one person has inspired me. One person has given me hope. One person has made me believe that we can make a change.”
“Some of you know I now have Secret Service protection,” Obama said.
“Those guys never smile; they are always cool. But I noticed when De
Niro walks in, they’re all like elbowing each other.”
Mark Ramsey shares some thoughts on a story in the Sunday Times of London about the growing number of Brits tuning in to personalized Internet “radio” every week (and tuning out traditional radio).
Sunday Times: “Personalised broadcasts of the future will probably have either advertising or a price tag attached, just as they do today. But once your radio knows exactly what you want to hear, the idea of a human DJ – however cheeky his banter – might start to sound a little dated.”
Ramsey: “Over the long haul I fully expect the influence of music-oriented radio to diminish. Because music, my friends, is a commodity. Not only can anyone string together a playlist, but nobody can string together my favorite playlist better than I can.”
“What it all adds up to is the gradual near-obsolescence of music radio, not in a blink, but by a slow and persistent siphoning of audience and attention and interest and advertisers. This process will take years to happen.”
I read a lot of stories like this but very few on the impact of Internet “stations” on non-music formats. Are news-talk formats feeling any effect from the web? My radio pals can feel free to post an anonymous comment.
In a moving ceremony at the International Machinest Hall in Bridgeton, Missouri on Sunday, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton gave absolution to former neocon firebrand Darrin Jobe. “It felt like coming home,” said a tearful Jobe.
Blogger (and Hillary supporter) Jeff Jarvis dismisses this little ditty –and Obama’s campaign– as "the most rhetorical of the bunch: speeches and slogans so neat they can fit in 4/4 time."
What was the title of the "song" (early 70s?) that incorporated bits of speeches by MLK, JFK and Bobby Kennedy? Was it Abraham, Martin and John? Seems like there was another one but I can’t come up with it.
UPDATE: But smays.com reader Dale could. In 1971, DJ Tom Clay combined Jackie DeShannon’s What the World Needs Now with Dion’s Abraham, Marltin and John, and the speeches referenced above. Clay died in 1995 at the age of 66.
Download What the World Needs Now.mp3
The Coffee Zone was packed. SRO. I chatted with Gaylin for a couple of minutes (I think she’s the instructor) and learned that some of the dancers were beginners and others were more experienced.