No Mod Required

Is from 1998-4-11. It's a copy of Wong Fei Hung's theme from Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China. Based on the folk song, On the General's Orders, and used in hundreds of it's instantly recognizable to fans of Hong Kong cinema.

That's not the first MP3 I ever downloaded, however. That honor goes to a live version of Tool's Aenima which I've long since deleted. It's stunning to think that song is well over ten years old at this point, but it is. What a lovely, hate filled ode to Los Angeles that is.

Save Public Radio Webcasting. Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act

I know at least one reader of this blog could offer expert commentary on Forbes' picks…

The Most Exotic Brands Of Weed - Forbes.com

…and how about this stuff?

Salvia Divinorum

and finally, I think I've mentioned this before, but I love the English associative slang for an eighth ounce of marijuana- "A Henry." As in "Henry the Eighth." See, listening to English MCs does pay off…

Fuck the DMCA, fuck the RIAA, fuck the MPAA.

Fuck all that shit.

I'm linking to the boingboing post and not the EFF (of which I am a dues paying member) because of this quote:

" If there was ever an example of why the DMCA needs to die, this is it. The idea that a sixteen-digit number is illegal to possess, to discuss in class, or to post on a news site is offensive to a country where free speech is the first order of the Constitution. The MPAA and RIAA are conspiring to unmake America, to turn this into a country where free expression, due process, and the rule of law take a back-seat to a perpetual set of governmental handouts intended to guarantee the long-term profitability of a small handful of corrupt companies."

Fuck that small handful of corrupt companies. For those of you keeping score, for the RIAA that's Sony, EMI, BMG, Universal, and Warner and for the MPAA that's Buena Vista (The Walt Disney Company), Sony, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. Don't let the acronym cloud your mind. Remember who it is that's actually doing the fucking with these takedown notices…

And if you're pissed off about this sort of thing, write your congressman or woman and throw a dollar or two to the EFF.

Boing Boing: EFF explains the law on AACS keys

This all, of course, ties into the "Digital Bastille Day*" over at Digg, which just made the New York Times…

*I'm not sure if it originated there, but it was referred to as such by a MeFi poster. I like it better than "Digital Boston Tea Party", which I heard somewhere else, so that's my phrase of choice…

I was looking to take down my last 11 downloads this month and saw, much to my pleasure, that they have Criminal Minded available.

w00t!

Does it get any better than that album? Seriously, does it?

Jeremy Warmsley

It's only available in Europe right now. Which means it would be like $50 for me to buy it with exchange rates and shipping and all that. So would some kind American label kindly put out this guy's disc on the United States?

This is it for paintings for the show this week.

All this talk of "The Show" makes me think of Doug E. Fresh. Sadly I can't find any embeddable version of that song to share.

Singer Don Ho Dies at 76 - Forbes.com

I'm 12.

This is some crazy stuff…

"Given the right director, Hattogate has the makings of an excellent noir melodrama, so here is its synopsis: born in 1928, Joyce Hatto was a more or less unknown British pianist who "retired" from the concert platform she so seldom graced in 1976.

"Many years later, recordings, allegedly by Hatto and allegedly recorded "at home" on her Steinway piano, began to emerge on her husband's Concert Artists label - although it was never convincingly explained how Hatto had managed to fit entire symphony orchestras into her lounge.

"By the time of her death last year, no fewer than 104 "Hatto" discs had been released, garnering rave reviews and transforming the barely known ivory-tinkler into a cult heroine. There was just one problem: the recordings weren't hers."

The Hatto scandal is no human tragedy - but it might make a melodrama