The visuals: Exciting. The narrative: Experimental and all over the place. The voiceover: Spooky. All in all, it makes for a neat little three minutes of your time.
Trying to show a link between rock stars and drugs is like trying to make a link between mouths and tooth decay—too obvious to bother.
R.U. Sirius • Author of the new book “Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs.” Sirius (the nom de plume of Ken Goffman) analyzes the drug culture of rock music and how rock stars (as well as drugs) are the epitome of the release from a tightly-focused life. Snoooches! • source
Mr. Obama risks turning Mr. Bush’s mistakes into his own or, in the case of the photographs, turning Mr. Bush’s cover-up into his own.
The New York Times • In an editorial denouncing both Obama’s decision to not release photos of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the continuation of military tribunals. They admit that Obama’s getting drama over it from both ends, but they think he’s not doing enough to take a stand against Bush’s systemic failures. (We agree.) • source
“For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” Uber-popular producer Danger Mouse, who also moonlights as half of Gnarls Barkley, was having legal problems getting his latest album out, so he came up with a novel solution to its release. So, instead of letting the label get in the way, he’s releasing the packaging of “Dark Night of the Soul” – an elaborate 100-plus-page book with a blank CD, presumably for purposes of putting the torrented album onto. Clever, but he has a history of this. source