*Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK. [notes]
*Alanis Morrisette has signed up to appear in the film version of Philip K. Dick’s “Radio Free Albemuth.” Up next: Tori Amos starring in “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”? [cinematical]
*RealNetworks revenues are up for the quarter; Rhapsody’s joint-venture positioning cited as opportunity for growth. [digital music news]
*Getting a lot of mp3 spam? Poperti lets you easily listen to it through Gmail. [red ferret]
*The Rock Steady gym bag: Looks retarded and plays MP3s. [shinyshiny]
*In subscription music news: $50 per year for access to The Who content. Why, God? [listening post]
*Coolio has signed up to appear in a reality show. On the Oxygen network. In it, he will raise six teenagers by himself. [getty images]
*Check out the Daily Swarm’s Daft Punk Halloween Costume Contest.
*The execrable local. From MetBlo Mpls: “I wish MinnPost would stop telling us what they’re going to give us, and just give it to us already.” HAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Ugh. Agreed.
A record player playing ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin’.
Beards + vinyl.
*Is it 2.0? Please vote. [eHub]
*Hello, awesome: The Spongebob Squarepants clamshell phone. [textually]
*Pict.fm: Creating animated icons based on artist photos and Last.fm user data. It would be better if it created one crazy composite. [rocketsurgeon]
*The Arcade Fire’s Will Butler responds to Sasha Frere-Jones’ anti-white people New Yorker piece.
*Starbucks’ Hear Music signs its first non-nonagenarian musician: noob Hilary McRae. [billboard via daily swarm]
I fear this.
[mefi]
Prince hates YouTube.
[daily swarm]
The one thing writers should know: People hate reading.
The one thing speakers should know: People hate listening.
Hence, the triumvirate of rhetoric:
-Clarity
-Levity
-Brevity
Goodbye.
It seems unsafe.
[black cab sessions]
