Frank Black (And My Co-Workers) Want To Go To Los Angeles [Videodrone]

Came across this today:
Maura is in L.A. for New Year’s Eve and I do not approve! Mostly because she’s M.I.A. this morning–probably sleeping on company hours because it’s, like, what 2 a.m. out there right now?–and I’ve…

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Kylie Minogue Lands On Queen Elizabeth II’s Honors List

This is interesting:
Kylie Minogue has a very special reason to celebrate the New Year - she has learned she’ll pick up an Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal after landing a place on British monarch Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year honors List.
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Family Falsely Claims Dad Was Blown Up In Iraq To Avoid Paying Scalper For Hannah Montana Tickets [2008: The Year America Abandoned Its Senses For Billy Ray Cyrus’ Daughter]

Here’s a great post:
After spending 12 months chronicling the depths to which the cash-strapped middle-classes would stoop in order to obtain sold-out Hannah Montana tickets, what better way to finish out Idolator’s year…

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Charm

Melissa sent us a link to this:
A while ago I <a href="http://music.metafilter.com/1432/Crazy-Baby-Lazy-Charlie" title="Crazy Baby, Lazy Charlie">posted</a> a song from an old tape-album called <i>It's Amazing What Some People Can Believe</i>, and said I'd tell people when I'd uploaded the whole thing to my website. I forgot. Mea culpa.
This is, as it were, the second […]

Mindy McCready Is Released From Jail

Curtis wrote to us about:
Mindy McCready Is Released From Jail After Violating Probation From a 2004 Drug Arrest

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Blues Artist ‘Weepin’ Willie Dies at 81

Interesting:
Blues vocalist ‘Weepin’ Willie Robinson dies in Boston fire at age 81

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Bucky Done Gun

Thanks Tristan, for pointing out:
an electro M.I.A. remix. happy new yearr mefi musics L:)

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Metafilter Orchestra - It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Interesting:
The Metafilter Music Collaboration, as described <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/15067/Would-that-be-a-MMOMPG">here</a> and <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/15209/Metafilter-Music-Collaboration-deadline-looms">here</a>. Starring <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/cabingirl">cabingirl</a> on violin, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/chococat">chococat</a> on acoustic and electric guitars and vocals, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/equalpants">equalpants</a> on electric guitar, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/escabeche">escabeche</a> on bass guitar and vocals, myself on drum programming and vocals, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/googly">googly</a> on beats and bass, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username/herrdoktor">herrdoktor</a> on noise <a […]

The Long Trail

Chris told us about:
Foolishly recorded next to a loud computer. Features whistling, a shaker, and tapping on guitar percussion. Perhaps worth a rerecording someday. Named after a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Trail">trail</a> that cuts all the way across Vermont. I'm on the long trail,
and I've got a long ways to go,
But I just started.
Don't know if I'll […]

Hands are clean

Interesting:
This is 3/4 of the original line up of "the next" in my basement. Improv jam session My ex roomate the idiot on keys and fake drums. Recorded with a sony minidisc player and a crappy computer mic.

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