Category: ‘News’ · TangleBones

Radiohead is serious music, this is serious thread

Mac­world UK is report­ing that:

At issue is Apple’s insis­tence that artists allow fans to buy indi­vid­ual tracks unbun­dled. Radio­head object to this, as the band wants to sell its albums as they were meant to be heard – complete.

In accor­dance with their wishes, I hope you will join me in my solemn oath to uphold Radiohead’s wishes that their songs be allowed the artis­tic integrity that they deserve:

1. I pledge to boy­cott lis­ten­ing to Radiohead’s music on the radio or pur­chas­ing sin­gles, since it is so impor­tant to listen to their songs in the appro­pri­ate con­text. To help others enjoy this music, I will call in and request radio sta­tions not to play Radiohead’s singles.

2. I also pledge to only ever listen to the album in one sit­ting, with­out paus­ing, rewind­ing or skip­ping from track to track, as the artists intended. Oth­er­wise, I’d just be ruin­ing this amaz­ing music, none of which any of us have heard.

3. I will write to Radio­head to ask them to please release the CD as one single track to encour­age this kind of behav­ior. If they could rig it so that it won’t allow paus­ing, rewind­ing or fast-​forwarding, that would be great as well.

4. Since allow­ing people to rip the album will give them even more con­trol, I will ask them to include soft­ware on the disk to pre­vent that sort of whole-​sale destruc­tion of the integrity of their album. If they could make said soft­ware install itself into a hidden area on any com­puter that it is inserted into, that would be ideal.

5. I will also ask Radio­head if they would never play any songs off of their albums live unless they intend to play them in the order that they are on the album, and with the same exact transitions.

This is, after all, seri­ous music.

Or these jumped-​up nitwits could get over them­selves and stop trying to con­trol how people enjoy their music and just appre­ci­ate the fact that they have a huge fol­low­ing of rabid fans who will buy any damn fool thing they pro­duce, no matter how indul­gent or pre­ten­tious. Also, they should real­ize that allow­ing people to pur­chase a sample song off of their album with­out pur­chas­ing the entire album will gen­er­ate them more sales, not less.

New Outlet for News

I’ve dis­cov­ered a great source for news and infor­ma­tion at The Spat­ula. What I like about it is that it seems to cover a lot of the sto­ries that the main­stream media won’t and it does it with a unique spin.

The best part though, for me, is that users of the site can con­tribute their own sto­ries to the mem­bers sec­tion of the site. And right now, I’m the fea­tured member of the week! After this week, you’ll be able to find my arti­cle over in the mem­bers sec­tion where I’m hoping to see more exam­ples of great cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism in the future.

So check it out and let me know what you think of both my arti­cle and the site in general.

An Open Letter to Republican Politicians, Re: Your Sex Life

Dear Repub­li­can Politicians,

Since it seems that each and every one of you have a secret gay sex life, don’t you think it might be time to come out of the closet? I mean, I don’t care if you want to stay in the closet, I really don’t, though I find your hyp­o­crit­i­cal voting records trou­bling, but think of what a life as an openly gay politi­cian would mean. No more hiding out in public restrooms, no more embar­rass­ing press con­fer­ences, no more sneak­ing around trying to think of people to blame for your arrests.

The thing about all of this is that even­tu­ally, every­one will find out what you’re up to (I’m look­ing at you, Mitch McConnell and Lind­sey Graham) because you keep having sex with people! Those people aren’t going to watch you vote against gay rights year after year with­out speak­ing up. So why not just come out and defuse the whole sit­u­a­tion? You know, stay ahead of the situation.

And just imag­ine what a relief it will be when you can stop this whole self-​loathing thing! You can stop sup­port­ing those beards you’ve been paying for, you can meet some­body who shares your inter­ests in low­er­ing the cap­i­tal gains tax and flower arrang­ing, and best of all you can listen to a much better class of dance music! I mean, aren’t you tired of pre­tend­ing you like line danc­ing when you could be at one of DC’s many gay clubs? I’m sure the selec­tion in Idaho is lim­ited, but after a long day on the senate floor dis­en­fran­chis­ing minori­ties and restrict­ing civil lib­er­ties, you can take your pick of clubs to do some pop­pers and mingle with cute guys hungry for a sugar daddy.

Just promise me you’ll think it over.

Your constituent,

Jemal Cole