Links for 11.16.08: Mickey Rourke’s music, Obama’s BlackBerry, Hodgman’s blog…
by Josh Kimball
*Movie music: The Playlist has the almost touching (whaaa?) story of how Mickey Rourke helped secure music from Axl Rose and Bruce Springsteen for Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Wrestler.”
*Kanye: More caps from Kanye in his post titled Who’s Winning, Me or the Media? I have a confession to make. I LOVE CAPS.
*Videogames: The band British Sea Power rates Wii Music vs. Guitar Hero. [largehearted boy]
*Information: Supposedly, presidents can’t use e-mail or text messages because the data eventually becomes public and ultimately presents troublesome security challenges. Ergo, President-Elect Obama has to give up his BlackBerry. Damn, that’d be crippling. Another interesting nugget from this article is that prior to entering the White House, George W. Bush had an AOL email account. It was 1999, but still…
*Blogs: John Hodgman has a new (old ) blog. It’s brown now.
*Single-serve sites: Has Obama Taken Away Your Guns Yet? [ugh. can't find where I saw this.]
*Reading: If you only read one of today’s links, read the one that leads you to George Packer talking about Obama and the New Liberalism in the New Yorker. It is this one.
Wonder how President-elect Obama will deal with the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms from his CrackBerry addiction? Read a tongue-in-cheek fantasy letter to the President-elect on how to cope (from one addict to another) at http://www.justmypointofview.wordpress.com.
Here’s a tidbit:
Dear Mr. President-Elect Obama:
Say it ain’t so! From one BlackBerry addict to another, I feel your pain (as another Democratic president used to say with faux emotion). There, on mobile.nytimes.com, I read the words on the tiny screen in the palm of my hand and almost dropped my precious BlackBerry on the floor: “Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe.” This, on page A1, of The New York Times.
To read the rest, visit http://www.justmypointofview.wordpress.com.
Mickey Rourke filled his role in The Wrestler really well… maybe too well