Friday, September 19, 2003

Hum along Josie..and Jamie, and Jeanette, and Jennifer, and... Because it's a musical edition of the Friday Five.  Two weeks in a row! 1. Who is your favorite singer/musician? Why? Well, that largely depends on what week of the year it is.  As a pure, one man show I might have to say Bill Mallonnee.  I think I admire his ability as a lyricist more than anything or anyone else.  2. What one singer/musician can you not stand? Why? Well, it would be hard to pick one, but having gone to a middleclass white university for three years, I've developed a certain antipathy toward Dave Matthews.  Or pretty much any well-hygiened college crooner with an acoustic guitar (I've grown to hate these so much, it's made me appreciate the really good ones more.)  3. If your favorite singer wasn't in the music business, do you think you would still like him/her as a person? Beats heck out of me. 4. Have you been to any concerts? If yes, who put on the best show? Haven't been to very many at all, but the best show I've seen so far was Stavesacre, mewithoutyou is very good as well. 5. What are your thoughts on downloading free music online vs. purchasing albums? Do you feel the RIAA is right in its pursuit to stop people from dowloading free music? I think the RIAA is a curropt and classless organization.  I don't feel too sorry for them, even though it's hard to argue for the morality of taking someone's inellectual property for free that was not offered to you for free.  Ok, so, that's the end!   4:51:50 PM    comment [] The shirt off their backs WUSA, the women's professional soccer league, has closed up shop and gone home, just on the verge of the Women's World Cup and the inevitable feminist media deluge.  Apparently the league had other issues besides the overly optimistic vision that women's soccer could succeed in the U.S. The American internationals, the majority of them founding members of the league, were well looked after. Each earned $80,000 a season, but the foreign international stars, including Canada's World Cup captain Charmaine Hooper, were not in the same bracket. "The owners felt the American players deserved the money because the league wouldn't be around if not for them,'' said Hooper, who is in Columbus, Ohio, preparing for Canada's opener against Germany on Sunday. "They all got paid the same amount regardless whether they played a minute or not. I can't say they were all worth that much.'' Hooper said the foreign stars were paid between $45,000 to $50,000 and, true to form, the outspoken Canadian was upset and questioned management about the disparity in salaries. Truth, justice and the American way.  Some things deserve to die.  12:32:33 PM    comment [] My love is a fever So many faces.  Faces without name, without voice, without character.  Like sand thrown up and churned by the wind, they come rushing by me; a tidal wave of flesh.  Stinging, biting, kicking, suffocating. And none of them know me.  Faces; cold as an icy rain, hard as a limestone cavern.  As bright as June lightning, and impenetrable as cold cement.  Herded up by the hundreds, they drive the chariots of war with ravenous teeth and silk tongues and wheels jarring over those who couldn't follow.  Who are they? Clay toys, a mindless happy horde of trolls.  Numbers, numbers and numbers.  The stock is up this week, over 500.  Work those hands hard on the plow this week and you'll win thousands more, at least.  You know the harvest is always ready to be made, even when the early roots are soft.  Away they go.  1:33:06 AM    comment []

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