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  1. To love

    To love the rain
    I will sleep well tonight
    With the tumble of raindrops.
    My lost soul is still not found
    But the raindrops comfort me.
    The rhythm of chaos reminds me
    My human form is real
    My lost anger and fear of the death brigade
    Tumbles with each discordant rhythm



    I would add music, but I have not figured out how to to do that yet.
    Neither with sound nor written cord.

    Updated 01-01-2011 at 08:32 PM by Oolith

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  2. New Year's Eve with David Lee Roth

    Quote Originally Posted by Blaze View Post
    Twenty-six years ago today, DLR and I hung out on W 4th street in Greenwich Village.

    December 30, 1984 - 'twas a Sunday morning and I'd spent the week crashing with Hoboken friends in advance of a big New Year's Eve party, but Saturday afternoon had relocated to Manhattan to join my visiting family who had rooms booked at Morgan's, the new Steve "Studio" Rubell / Ian "54" Schrager hotel on Madison near 38th. Following Sunday breakfast I called the Hobokeners and we agreed on a noon meet-up at McBell's tavern, a great old Irish place on Sixth just south of Washington Place where a decent steak and cold beer could be had cheaply.

    As I'd cabbed down to the neighborhood around 11:30, I was prowling "Geoffe's Trail" of neighborhood record shops and turned west off Sixth Avenue onto West 4th, where it bent northward to cross Cornelia and then Jones streets. Mid-block, I spotted a small bric-a-brac place - really no bigger than a large walk-in closet, and the wallspace chock-full of cheap sunglasses. Stepping in, I saw a large mane of blond hair over the back of a jean jacket that had a gorgeous, WWII Memphis Belle warplane 'nose art' style, hand-painted Pin-up-Girl-in-Champagne-Glass image. 'Round turns David Lee Roth - at the time, my absolute #1 idol in the world - and says to me "Hey buddy!"

    [Ulp] "Hi, Dave! What are you doing here?"

    "We're just picking up some fine glasses for tomorrow night! You're gonna watch me hostin' the MTV New Year's Eve party, ain'tcha?"

    "Big party in Hoboken - we'll be watching on TV" was my 'cool' response.

    I'd been such a huge Van Halen fan and recalled how, a year earlier, VH had released their mammoth "1984" on New Year's Eve, and MTV had then beaten that drum for months. Dave was one of the most recognized mascots and dependable faces on MTV - a total showman
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  3. Litigations of interest - Pink Floyd and Iron Butterfly.

    In March of 2010 Pink Floyd set about to enforce their rights described in contract from abuses being carried out by EMI. Pink Floyd once again is setting new ground for other artist. Moreover, more and more artists are standing up to big business. We have to thank Pink Floyd and their management for their tenacity. Some of those abuses were copyright infringement and £ 10 million in royalties owed to the band.

    The BBC noted that

    Garth Brooks and AC/DC are among the others who have objected to their albums being split up.
    Peter Jenner, who managed Pink Floyd when they first signed with EMI in the 1960s, said releasing complete albums was important to the band.
    "Clearly in cases like the Floyd, there was a coherence in the content as an album," he told BBC 6 Music. "Tracks were dropped because they didn't fit in with the whole thing. I think that was quite common, especially in the 70s and 80s."
    Mr Jenner, now emeritus president of the International Music Managers' Forum, predicted that the ruling would be significant.
    "I think it will give the artists some ammunition to get the record companies to be a bit fairer with the royalty treatment they give artists for digital work."
    Paul Gorman stated in Music week

    In a ruling this afternoon, the court dismissed the appeal by EMI against the High Court judgement earlier this year that the group’s individual songs must not be sold without permission.

    In the latest stage in the dispute over an alleged £10m in unpaid royalties from sales between 2002 and 2007, lawyers acting on behalf of Pink Floyd argue that its 1999 contract with EMI required the label to sell its works only as albums, even in a digital context.

    This comes as a further knock to EMI’s stock this week, following reports in the financial press that Guy Hands has lost the confidence of key investors and is preparing
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    Updated 12-28-2010 at 09:13 PM by Blaze

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  4. you last night

    I dreamed of you last night
    We were reclined and loosely entwined with my head upon your chest and your leg snug in my crotch.
    I glanced up when you chest reverberated a command and a laughter to those around us.
    I was mesmerized; it was like looking at me with a soul.
    Your eyes full of warm charm, not a glacier bolt demise.
    Your skin had a pink glow of aspiration, not the insipid gnash of pale fate.
    A recitalist came by and I was on the hunt; one more beating, one more run, just one little runt.
    Then your voice came from mine, a command;
    The command for her to remove her dowel from me.
    The sound of flesh closing in on a lesion echoed.
    I grabbed it from her hand and destroyed it with a stare.
    We reclined you placed your thigh snuggly in my crotch.
    The cast and crew changed. You smiled and I followed suit.

    Updated 01-01-2011 at 08:30 PM by Oolith

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  5. Season's Greetings From The Roth Journals

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