Esau.

They're just a chip off the old block: Photo essay that revealed humble roots of rock legends as they pose with parents.

In 1971, the likes of Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Elton John and the Jackson Five were some of the most famous celebrities in their world.

But for their parents, these ultra-famous rock stars were still only grown-up children, whom they doted on and fussed over.

LIFE Magazine photographer John Olson followed some of these big name stars home to see their parents to tell the inside story of the private lives of famous musicians and show their person histories.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/1970s-rock-stars-parents-reveal-humble-roots-childhood-homes

Okay, I used to get my TV shows here.

Anyone got a good replacement site for me?

I've used this site a few times.

http://eztv.it/

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Here's an article regarding btjunkie, it also mentions (or links) that pirate bay will be switching over to magnetic links only soon.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/torrent-search-engine-btjunkie-voluntarily-shuts-down.ars

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=386722

NHL INVESTIGATING SCOREBOARD ERROR IN KINGS' VIC

The National Hockey League is looking into a scoreboard error at the Staples Center on Wednesday night that gave the Los Angeles Kings a 3-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

"We're looking at it from all aspects," NHL executive vice-president Colin Campbell told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun on Thursday. "We're sending two people out there. Is it possible for the clock to stop like that? We're going to look at everything."

Kings blueliner Drew Doughty scored the winning goal with less than a second to play in regulation to secure the win. But when the Blue Jackets looked at video after the game, they saw that the clock froze for about a second before the goal - meaning time should have expired.

Campbell also confirmed that regardless of the league's findings, the result of the game can't be changed. "No you can't," he told TSN. "Once the game is over, it's over."

Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson explained in his team blog on Thursday morning that the incident could have an 'enormous impact' on the standings.

"It's easy to say that this doesn't matter," he wrote. "We, the Blue Jackets, are in last place and it is likely not going to affect our place in the standings. However, in my opinion, this matters in many respects. It matters to our players, to our coaches, every person in our organization and our fans."

The Kings are seventh in the Western Conference - five points up on eighth-place Minnesota and six points ahead of Dallas and Calgary.

"Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs, explained Kings general manager Dean Lombardi in an email to TSN. "Given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see – the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 - 10ths of a second before the delay - this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes. That is not an opinion - that is science - amazing devise quite frankly."

The Calgary Flames - another team trying to make its mark down the stretch - said there's little the league could do to correct such a mistake.

"It is our understanding the NHL is already investigating this matter," said general manager Jay Feaster in a team statement. "Moreover, as Colin Campbell was quoted as saying, once the game is over it is over. There is nothing the NHL is going to do, or can do, to correct the situation if, indeed, there was a mistake made in that game. Rather than crying over what happened in a game in which we did not take part, our time and energies are devoted to our own team and doing everything we can to win the games we play and in so doing qualify for the post-season. We sincerely believe that is a much better and more efficient use of our time and effort."

Here's the video.

24 tall boy cinquantes and caribou/moose chili.

This is really awesome news.

I couldn't begin to list the amount of music I've discovered, been introduced to and simply grown to love because of the genius and foresight Alan had to spot and document the truly unique and extremely important (but near unknown) moments and artists in traditional/roots music that would probably, if not for certain, had gone the way of the do-do simply because recording execs, company's etc didn't (and still appear not to) see the over-all importance in preserving what should really be deemed a national treasure (IMHO).

My only wish is Alan had done some field recordings here in Canada, I can only imagine what he would have documented.

Regardless, I'm really looking forward to this.

http://www.nytimes.com/music/the-alan-lomax-collection-from-the-american-folkl

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Relative links:

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/

www.culturalequity.org/features/globaljukebox/ce_features_globaljukebox.php

Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital

By LARRY ROHTER

The folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax was a prodigious collector of traditional music from all over the world and a tireless missionary for that cause. Long before the Internet existed, he envisioned a “global jukebox†to disseminate and analyze the material he had gathered during decades of fieldwork.

A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads.

On Tuesday, to commemorate what would have been Lomax’s 97th birthday, the Global Jukebox Label is releasing “The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center,†a digital download sampler of 16 field recordings from different locales and stages of Lomax’s career.

“As an archivist you kind of think like Johnny Appleseed,†said Don Fleming, a musician and record producer who is executive director of the Association for Cultural Equity and involved in the project. “You ask yourself, ‘How do I get digital copies of this everywhere?’ â€

Starting in the mid-1930s, when he made his first field recordings in the South, Lomax was the foremost music folklorist in the United States. He was the first to record Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, and much of what Americans have learned about folk and traditional music stems from his efforts, which were also directly responsible for the folk music and skiffle booms in the United States and Britain that shaped the pop-music revolution of the 1960s and beyond.

Lomax worked both in academic and popular circles, and increased awareness of traditional music by doing radio and television programs, organizing concerts and festivals, and writing books, articles and essays prodigiously. At a time when there was a strict divide between high and low in American culture, and Afro-American and hillbilly music were especially scorned, Lomax argued that such vernacular styles were America’s greatest contribution to music.

“It would be difficult to overstate the importance of what Alan Lomax did over the course of his extraordinary career,†said the writer Tom Piazza, who has written an introductory essay for “The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax,†a book of about 200 of Lomax’s photographs that is to be published in the fall. “He was an epic figure in and of himself, with a musical appetite that was omnivorous and really awe inspiring, who used the new recording technology to go and document musical expression at its most local and least commercial.â€

Lomax, a Texan by birth, devoted the last two decades of his life to the Global Jukebox project. Looking for commonalities among musical styles from all over the world, he early on began using personal computers to help develop criteria to identify and classify such similarities, in the process creating something very much like the algorithms used today by Pandora and other music streaming services.

“Alan was doubly utopian, in that he was imagining something like the Internet based on the fact he had all this data and a set of parameters he thought of as predictive,†said John Szwed, a Columbia University music professor and the author of “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World,†a biography published in 2010. “But he was also saying that the whole world can have all this data too, and it can be done in such a way that you can take it home.â€

That is one goal of the Association for Cultural Equity, which oversees Global Jukebox and other Lomax-related initiatives from modest offices at Hunter College in Manhattan, with a budget that was $250,000 last year. The music Lomax collected has been available in 45-second snippets on the Cultural Equity Web site for several years but is now being digitized in its entirety for streaming, a process scheduled to conclude next month; a similar process is under way for his radio shows, lectures and interviews. Some music is also being sold in formats ranging from iTunes and CDs to vinyl LPs. A small proportion of the Lomax material has been made available on commercial labels like Rounder and Atlantic.

“This project has evolved as the technology has evolved,†said Lomax’s daughter, Anna Lomax Wood, who is president of the Association for Cultural Equity.

Lomax’s primary interest was music, and he recorded not just across the United States but also extensively in the Caribbean, Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy and even the Soviet Union. That led to an interest in comparing global dance styles, and so the archive also has what Ms. Wood said was “the biggest private collection of dance film anywhere, and from everywhere,†much of which will be put online.

Even before digitization of the collection is complete, musicians, educators and others have been dipping into it. Bruce Springsteen’s new album, “Wrecking Ball,†due out in March, uses samples from the archive on two songs, and more than a decade ago Moby drew heavily on Lomax’s field recordings from the South for his hit album “Play,†as did the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?†movie and soundtrack.

“We go from the attitude that we just want everyone to use it, whatever their budget is,†Mr. Fleming said. “If it’s educational or for the press, it’s usually no charge, and when someone has a budget, well, then we just want to get roughly what other people are getting.â€

Recently Google has come calling, with an interest in setting up a site to preserve endangered languages, Ms. Wood said. Though the recordings Lomax collected himself through fieldwork is enormous, the archive also contains material that he obtained from other researchers around the world, including spoken samples of languages that are now vanishing.

“Because he was so interested in so many different aspects of singing, dancing and speaking around the world, he gathered everything he could find, from disparate cultures,†said Todd Harvey, curator of the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, which holds much of Lomax’s work.

The Association for Cultural Equity also has what it calls a repatriation program, meant to make Lomax’s work available to the communities where it was obtained and to pay royalties to the heirs of those whose music was recorded. On Friday recordings, photographs, video and documents are to be donated to the public library in Como, Miss., where in September 1959 Lomax made the first recordings of the blues guitarist Fred McDowell, whose songs were later covered by the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Bonnie Raitt and Jack White of the White Stripes.

“My father always felt that part of his job was to give something back to the people whose culture it was,†Ms. Wood said. “It’s a way of saying, ‘What you do is worth something,’ and what we do is an extension of that.â€

Ms. Wood has been immersed in her father’s music collection all her life, even accompanying him on some field trips when she was a child. But Mr. Fleming’s route was roundabout: originally a member of the punk band Velvet Monkeys, he has produced records by artists like Sonic Youth, Hole and Teenage Fanclub before succumbing to the beauty of the music Lomax collected and especially the ethos associated with it.

“Alan saw immeasurable worth in something off the radar that everyone else ignored or saw no worth in, and he was against that homogenized Top 40 world that most people live in,†Mr. Fleming said. “Just the idea of him out in the field with his Presto recorder, dusting the thing off as it’s running, it’s all kind of punk rock to me.â€

So a bunch of people who already don't pay for music are going to protest the music industry by continuing to not pay for music? And all in the name of anti-censorship? That is some fucked up leap of logic.

The fucked up logic here is assuming everyone who uses those type of sites are pirating music/movies. It's the same logic the people wanting these laws already have. People seem roll their eyes at these laws as not much to worry about, but I imagine when the USA's censorship starts to effect Canadians, people might see it differently - Imagine logging on your computer and seeing this website blocked due to URLs posted here that the USA deems piracy. (and this site would be blocked).

That's the big issue for me, censoring me with US laws or in my case directly, deleting my blog based ONLY on where I choose to host my files (legal shared files btw).

These arrests/busts/shut downs etc are proof the US doesn't need to censor content to enforce the copyright laws - it's just a veiled way to gain sympathetic support to police the internet for anything the gov't doesn't want their people to have access to. Another year or so and I wouldn't be surprised we'll see the same suggested or happening here in Canada.

whoa! Are you able to get it back? who's judging whether your content was infringing or not? that's the problem with SOPA and PIPA. where's the line?

No idea. I personally can't retrieve it, my wordpress account is still there, just no blog. I sent an email yesterday asking to specifically point out what material was infringing, but I haven't heard back from anyone yet.

Last year I was asked to remove a Dylan show, and the d/l link was deleted (last year) by megaupload themselves, but other then having the majority of my d/ls on their site I really don't know what the offending material was yet. A blog friend thinks it was due to linking to megaupload but I don't know about that.

As for where is the line, I have no idea. But here's an example of what can happen (even without SOPA/PIPA) with these money mongers using programs and poor research to enforce their rules. Check out this crap.

http://thepopcop.co.uk/2012/01/why-sopa-pipa-spell-trouble/

SOPA/PIPA is a scam, the arrest of the megaupload folks proves the US doesn't need these laws. They already have the ability to enforce this crap. All these laws will do will allow the US gov't to abuse and censor what they don't want their people saying or hearing. At least that's how I see it.

You know Brad, I posted similar links for that stuff in OP, but every time I hit enter I got "forum not active" error message. Removed them and it worked. Weird.

But thanks for posting it, I was just about to.

I also noticed my blog was gone. Checked my email that I use with it and sure enough wordpress cited "copyright infringement" as the reason for the deletion a few days ago. I only had live recordings on there and ones in (or that were) mass circulation on the usual torrent sites (Dime, TTD, HC etc). Not that it matter anyhow as a lot of my files were hosted at megaupload. lol

[edit to add]I wonder how much of a coincidence it is that this happened when it did AND only two days after I added the "protest SOPA/PIPA" ribbon banner wordpress offered bloggers to post (in dashboard settings for those wondering).

First of many I'm guessing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.

The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

The news came a day after anti-piracy law protests, but investigators said they were ordered two weeks ago.

The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.

"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," said a statement posted on its website.

Third-party sites

The charges included copyright infringement, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.

A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.

The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m in assets had been seized.

It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.

"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.

"By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicise infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicise such content on the Megaupload site.

"Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users."

Before it was shut down the site posted a statement saying the allegations against it were "grotesquely overblown".

"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay," it added.

"If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."

Blackouts

The announcement came a day after thousands of websites took part in a "blackout" to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).

The US Chamber of Commerce has defended the proposed laws saying that enforcement agencies "lack the tools" to effectively apply existing intellectual property laws to the digital world.

Industry watchers suggest this latest move may feed into the wider debate.

"Neither of the bills are close to being passed - they need further revision. But it appears that officials are able to use existing tools to go after a business alleged to be inducing piracy," said Gartner's media distribution expert Mike McGuire.

"It begs the question that if you can find and arrest people who are suspected to be involved in piracy using existing laws, then why introduce further regulations which are US-only and potentially damaging."

haha _ shared that r2d2 xmas album here a few times over the years.

Here's the 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser.

We were offered comp golds, but haven't decided if we're going to.

Mungo Jerry.

Heard about this last week and laughed my ass off. I bet they don't make it half-way through that tour.

Just got it on the wii and the loading drives me freaking insane! Sometimes during show it doesn't get inturrupted at all, and then others, like right now, it stops to load every minute and a half. Any suggestions on how to deal with this aside from throwing a sewing machine at the TV?

As bouche and Ollie mentioned, the xbox will be the better choice of the two (wii/xbox) for netflix.

One thought I have regarding your load/buffering issue (if it isn't the wii causing it) is to start the show, and then once it connects, pause it and let it load fully, then hit play. I used to do that with an older pc when streaming youtube or movies. Not an ideal fix per se, but it does help ease the frustration.

grasshoppers hop fast

you can hold them in your hand

go fuck yourself

Have fun folks, unfortunately family circumstances require I stay close to home.

16777215 Replies?

Wha happen?

I thought maybe I was the only one who saw that. It also says 335' date='545 pages, but I can only actually see one.[/quote']

I saw it the other day and took a screenshot. I wasn't logged in so I didn't know if that had anything to do with it, apparently it didn't.

Link to screenshot..

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/7991/wwtfn.jpg

I have one as well.

I bought my ticket via paypal so I only have the email receipt. Not really sure how that would all work for someone else claiming it though.

Should I contact the venue and have them change the name on the receipt? Anyone know if I even need to?

Yeah, I watched the video and I disagree with their decision. I don't think Tootoo really had enough time to move either, but on the same hand, Miller was stationed in his crease, not 15 feet out and stepping into Tootoo's path. What I mean is, it can't be easy moving out of the way of someone who is moving into your path opposed to moving out of the way of someone just in your path. Although neither is as simple as it sounds. If that makes sense.

Regardless, I disagree with the suspension, but agree with the in game penalties, which I think Lucic should have received when he hit Miller.

Like I said, I don't think the NHL knows what to do here. I mean, Booth didn't get anything other then two minutes for his hit on Kiprusoff. (which is a better comparison in my opinion)

So the Jordan Tootoo hit on Miller.... Suspendable or not? If Lucic got nothing for steamrolling Miller using the defence "he had no time to move", then surely the same defence can be applied to Tootoo, no?

I'm curious to see how Shanahan plays this one.

I can't say the same defense can be applied here since the circumstances aren't really the same. Miller was in his net and not stepping in front of Tootoo like he did with Lucic. That doesn't mean I think Tootoo should have been suspended though. In my opinion, Tootoo should have received the in game penalties he got and that should have been that.

I honestly don't think the NHL/Shanahan knows how to call these types of things.

David Barbe played bass in Sugar. And he has worked with John Keane (possibly regularly at Keane studios). was the engineer on some Panic albums.

He also played with D.B.T prior to Shonna.

I guess I'm going be "that guy" here, but this is my honest opinion. Her leaving doesn't really matter to me. I love D.B.T (saviors of rock & roll, in my opinion), but I've never really enjoyed her songs/singing etc and was never really impressed with her playing either, she never seemed to stand out with the band to me in any way, aside from being the only female.

However, I hope what ever she ends up doing, does well. Good luck to her.

bring jason back!! hehe

Someone asked Isbell if he was going to go back to DBT now and he responded "No' date=' I'm a terrible bass player". [/quote']

I laughed when I saw that one twitter.

I'd love to see him playing with D.B.T again though. Even though I've grown used to him not being there I will admit that my favourite shows have always been with him in the line up, he just added a great dynamic to D.B.T that I really enjoyed and one I've missed since he left. Wishful thinking, but I doubt we'll see it.

BTW - if you have twitter and enjoy following very active (funny/interesting/normal) people, Jason is a good one to to follow.

Grey Cup: interesting game or just an excuse to tipple on a Sunday?

Not that I need an excuse, but that excuse will be why I'm watching. Then again, I just picked up 24 tallboys for an afternoon hockey game (Go B's!) so maybe I'm not a good one to answer this question.