The New York Times > Arts > Music > Fade-Out: New Rock Is Pass%uFFFDon Radio

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Fade-Out: New Rock Is Pass%uFFFDon Radio: "ajor radio companies are abandoning rock music so quickly lately that sometimes their own employees don't know it. Troy Hanson, the program director of WZTA in Miami, said that he first learned that his station's owner, Clear Channel Communications, had ditched the rock format - and his staff - when he tuned to the station one morning in February and heard talk-radio. His rock domain, known as Zeta, had vanished. 'We didn't even get to play 'It's the End of the World as We Know It,' ' the R.E.M. anthem, as a sign off, he said. Advertisement In the last four months, radio executives have switched the formats of four modern-rock, or alternative, stations in big media markets, including WHFS in Washington-Baltimore area, WPLY in Philadelphia and the year-old KRQI in Seattle. Earlier this month WXRK in New York discarded most newer songs in favor of a playlist laden with rock stars from the 80's and 90's. Music executives say the lack of true stars today is partly the reason. Since rap-rock acts like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit retreated from the scene, none of the heralded bands from recent rock movements, be it garage-rock (the Strokes, the Vines) or emo (Dashboard Confessional, Thursday), connected with radio listeners or CD buyers the way their predecessors did."

I Fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard

Apologies to anyone who finds this offensive, but it was on of the most hilarious pieces of literature ever. Oh man, this is delicious. "The Farmers Market on Fairfax and 3rd is a Los Angeles landmark, attracting tourists and everyday Angelinos alike, as well as many famous faces. Among the celebrities I have seen there are Muhammad Ali, Terri Garr, Tyra Banks, Laura Linney, Keenan Ivory Wayans, the guitarist for The Cult, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Weird Al Yankovic.But Ann Coulter is the only celebrity Ive ever spotted at Farmers Market that I wound up fucking in the ass, hard."

Honeyboy Edwards

David Honeyboy Edwards, blues musician from Shaw, Mississippi, born in 1915.: "David 'Honeyboy' Edwards" First of all, how cool is this high school project?! Secondly, this man will be at the Champaign Jackson's Ribs n Tips tonight at 8. There is a link to one of his songs on the website, but all you gotta know is that the blues are the real raw deal, and people like him are a dying breed.

The New York Times > Opinion > An End to the Enterprise

The New York Times > Opinion > An End to the Enterprise: "By the middle of May, the 'Star Trek' franchise will be no more, having died a death as long and lingering as -- well, insert your favorite Trekkie long-and-lingering-death simile here. UPN has decided to bring 'Star Trek: Enterprise' - the latest version of the saga - to an end and to give the whole idea of 'Star Trek' a creative rest. The producers of the show have rejected a hopeless last-ditch effort to raise funds directly from fans to continue production. The original 'Star Trek' series proved what a little imagination, a little patience and a lot of plywood and foam core could do for televised science fiction. It ran for only three seasons on NBC in the late 1960's but attracted a devoted following that seems, somehow, to have replicated itself by cloning. It also inspired four additional series, 10 'Star Trek' movies and a delightful parody called 'Galaxy Quest,' starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver, which flirted momentarily with the nihilistic possibility that a television show about space might merely be a television show about space. For 'Star Trek' fans, a future with no 'Star Trek' at all must seem as empty as one of those great space voids the ever-endangered starship Enterprise kept getting sucked into. But somewhere, a TV executive is undoubtedly repeating the slogan about going where no one has gone before - and wondering how to make that idea about direct fan-financing work."