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Agreed...

Down to low forties here last night...brrrr. How is it in your neck of the woods?

December 1, 2004 -- Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is in discussions with satellite television provider EchoStar to launch a 24-hour music channel that would rival MTV, The Post has learned. Sources said the new channel, which will feature music from around the world, has yet to be named. The channel is scheduled to be launched in early 2005, these sources said. http://www.nypost.com/business/20943.htm

From the NY Times:

Diver acquitted of stalking singer By Jeanne King in New York December 1, 2004 A FORMER US Navy diver who says he drinks 7.5 litres of water a day so he can communicate telepathically with singer Sheryl Crow was acquitted in a Manhattan court today of stalking the Grammy Award winner http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...01^1702,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/nyregion...html?oref=login In just 5 months, over a million students from 300 colleges have joined www.thefacebook.com to connect with fellow students across the country

I was waiting for someone to ask - E N T E R

The Guitarist Is Metal. No, Not Heavy Metal. By MICHAEL BECKERMAN Published: November 30, 2004 fter the violinist Mari Kimura's concert at Symphony Space last week, I went to Starbucks with the composer J. Brendan Adamson, the inventor Eric Singer and a "friend" who had played in the concert. "What's that?" asked the woman behind the counter, looking at the friend. "A robot," I said with the sense of cool that comes only when you accompany a robot to Starbucks. "What does it do?" she continued, awestruck, since if truth be told, the bot looks something like a blocking dummy on a football field. "It plays music," I said smugly. Our companion, GuitarBot, might have been pleased, but it wasn't connected. And besides, none of its circuits are wasted on pride. "We weren't interested in making robots that played musical instruments," said Mr. Singer, of Lemur (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots), in the subsequent conversation. "We wanted robots that were musical instruments." GuitarBot will appear again tonight - thrilling the audience as four moving bridges zing up and down its four strings like in a racehorse game at a carnival - in a concert by Mr. Adamson at the Juilliard School. "Robo Recital," it is billed. "No Human Performers." This kind of "posthuman" hype creates everything from shivers of delight (Robots, how neat!) to shivers of fear (What? They don't need us humans anymore?), which have been part of the response to robots since they first appeared in fiction at the beginning of the last century. The delight is richly nuanced: thousands of Web sites tout an array of products like robot pets and robot household servants. You can even rent a robot to make presentations at your next business meeting. The current Sharper Image catalog leads with a classic illustration of the two main types of robots: a humanoid one, which amuses because it does "human" things like grunt and burp, and a household robot vacuum cleaner, which roams self-propelled through your house, picking up dust. A furniture store in SoHo boasts a huge assortment of brightly colored tin robots made in China. And few human characters in recent years have brought more chuckles than the robot duo from "Star Wars." Then there is the dark side of robots, which first appeared in the play that gave them their name, Karel Capek's "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots). The work, first performed in 1921, deals with a robot factory run amok, much the same plot as in the recent film "I, Robot," based loosely on a book by Isaac Asimov. In these cases, some glitch occurs, a humanlike "ghost in the machine," and all the protections programmed into the mechanical creatures go out the window. In "I, Robot," the mechanisms' stomachs suddenly turned red (indigestion?), and they started throwing people around like popcorn. The message is clear: like the golem, an earlier nonmechanical creature made flesh, a robot can help you, but it can also hurt you. GuitarBot claims its ancestor not in the golem - which, after all, has decidedly human characteristics - but in the ingenious automated machines of the last three centuries. In the mid-18th century, the Maillardet brothers created an astonishing writer-draftsman that could write poetry and do amazing drawings of ships and buildings. Around the same time, Jacques de Vaucanson created his famous defecating duck, which could eat, digest and all the rest. He also created a flute-playing android, which offered 12 tunes, perhaps an ancestor of the robot that recently conducted Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in Tokyo. While audiences may be titillated by the prospect of seeing such devices and their descendants do "human" things, Mr. Singer and Mr. Adamson have something else in mind. Mr. Adamson, in particular, is more concerned with technical issues and the ability of machines to do things that humans cannot accomplish. The flier for his concert prominently displays a quote from the visionary Australian composer Percy Grainger: "Too long has music been subject to the limitations of the human hand and subject to the interfering interpretation of a middle-man: the performer. A composer wants to speak to his public direct." So far so good, perhaps, but Grainger went further: "Machines (if properly constructed and properly written for) are capable of niceties of emotional expression impossible to a human performer." However calmly put, this statement raises just about every aesthetic question you would care to contemplate. Can "artificial" emotions be more real than "real" ones? What is a real emotion, anyway? Has anyone ever seen one, and is it different from, say, an "intellection"? And what does music exactly have to do with either? At the end of her informative article in support of the concert, "Look Ma - No Hands," in The Juilliard Journal online, Ms. Kimura, who played a duet with GuitarBot at last week's recital, asks about Mr. Adamson's event: "Why is this concert being held at Juilliard, the pinnacle of performing arts studies?" It is, suggests Ms. Kimura, who is also a composer, simply a continuation of the healthy, age-old interaction between composition and technology. Pushed further, that process represents what the techno-musicologist Thomas Brett means when he speaks of posthumanism: "New musical instruments, sounds and software allow us to radically exceed ourselves, ushering the human into hyperextensions of sound and meaning." But there are other interpretations as well. Juilliard has sometimes been criticized for its "mechanical" virtuosos, who strive for automatonlike perfection. While some of this talk stems from envy and urban legend (and more recently, a species of anti-Asian racism, as the musicologist Maiko Kawabata and others have noted), there has long been a suspicion that certain kinds of virtuosos lack "heart." Do these machines simply up the ante? Mr. Adamson uses more than Lemur's GuitarBot in his recital, offering several works for Yamaha Disklavier and several studies for a computer-controlled organ. Like the compositions of Conlon Nancarrow for player piano, these works transcend certain technical limitations of human performers. (The instruments, liberated in a sense, can play faster, longer and with greater complexity.) And unlike other species of computer music, they involve automated acoustic instruments played in real time. Though it would be silly to suggest that Adamson's impressive compositions lack emotional subtlety, they do share some of the aesthetics of pieces like George Antheil's "Ballet Mécanique" and Aleksandr Mosolov's "Iron Foundry." While these robots may provide more nuance than the music of the Robot Rock Band or the mechanical imaginings of Kraftwerk, it is not clear that they always offer the "niceties of emotional expression" promised by Grainger. At least not yet. Michael Beckerman is chairman of the music department at New York University.

That was cool...

http://www.purevolume.com/yourheartengraved » Palatine, IL » (L-R)Austin, Joel, Ronny, Cameron, Danny » Downloadable Songs (1) YourHeartEngraved yourheartengraved with their current lineup began in early June, But, the members have been making music together for about two years. During these years, they had been known as DiminisheD. "The Depths of those lost" is from an ep released in early 2004. If you would like to pick up this cd, it is availible at all our shows. Thanks for checkin it out guys! AIM: Joel - Emokid52689 Danny - GiveDanHugs Cameron - CameronL112 Austin - xHogwartsIsRealx Ronny - ScooterQueen360 We Love you. http://www.myspace.com/yourheartengraved/ www.yourheartengraved.com

The Guitarist Is Metal. No, Not Heavy Metal. By MICHAEL BECKERMAN Published: November 30, 2004 After the violinist Mari Kimura's concert at Symphony Space last week, I went to Starbucks with the composer J. Brendan Adamson, the inventor Eric Singer and a "friend" who had played in the concert. "What's that?" asked the woman behind the counter, looking at the friend. "A robot," I said with the sense of cool that comes only when you accompany a robot to Starbucks. "What does it do?" she continued, awestruck, since if truth be told, the bot looks something like a blocking dummy on a football field. "It plays music," I said smugly. Our companion, GuitarBot, might have been pleased, but it wasn't connected. And besides, none of its circuits are wasted on. You can read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/arts/music/30robo.html

Jesus...

Chilling...

Thanx XStyle, and Welcome to Beatking...

De 50 beste platene 2004 1. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free [Last ned] 2. Keane - Hopes And Fears 3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 4. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 5. Razorlight - Up All Night 6. The Libertines - The Libertines 7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus [Last ned] 8. The Killers - Hot Fuss 9. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll 10. Interpol - Antics Last Ned 11. Snow Patrol - Final Straw 12. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime 13. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born 14. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 15. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album 16. Kasabian - Kasabian [Last ned] 17. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak 18. Prince - Musicology [Last ned] 19. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby 20. The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons? 21. Green Day - American Idiot 22. Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon 23. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill 24. The Blue Nile - High 25. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell 26. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum 27. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home [Last ned] 28. Usher - Confessions [Last ned] 29. Kanye West - The College Dropout 30. Eminem - Encore 31. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows [Last ned] 32. Lostprophets - Start Something 33. George Michael - Patience [Last ned] 34. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans 35. The Futureheads - The Futureheads 36. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere 37. !!! - Louden Up Now 38. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands 39. Estelle - The 18th Day 40. Joss Stone - Mind Body & Soul [Last ned] 41. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News 42. Brian Wilson - Smile [Last ned] 43. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose 44. Jamelia - Thank You [Last ned] 45. The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart [Last ned 46. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 47. Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits 48. Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine [Les mer] 49. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live In Hyde Park 50. The Bees - Free The Bees [Last ned] http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/spray/musikk/article308540.ece

High school baseball players told to stop shaving eyebrows The Japan High School Baseball Federation has taken the unusual step of telling schools to tighten up against players who have had their eyebrows shaved or those wearing shabby clothes. The latest trend among schoolboys to shave their eyebrows has already created a stir among education officials who are outraged over the fashion. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20041128p2a00m0dm002001c.html

You'd think the woman would know that he only likes boys

I will have to smoke on that

I know - it's sad - apparently this chronic disease is spreading. Gone are the days of DJ spinning... http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showuser=9 :(

Speaking of which - here is their new box set http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/arts/mus...choi.html?8hpib

Sunday November 28, 1:21 PM A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041128/1/3ovex.html

31 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 1971 I agree Zeppelin's Stairway should be higher. My point was that the songs we each like are probably in the top 500 - they are just in a different order than we think they should be

3 men subdue a 14 year old boy from playing a video game and they have to use a taser gun!! If the authorities act like this in Florida, no wonder the kids are screwed up

Thanx, WF :kissy face:

I confess I was in Florida before the election, obstensively at a Panthers football game, but that's all I'll say - I plead the fifth - no lo contendre