Oh yeah baby... the sleaze is back again and John Walker Linhd is a queer.

These here are you DMusical Notes and I'm your M.C. tonight. We've got a lot of dilly and doodle tonight for ya.

I picked up a new CD today of a band called 3rd Strike, those kids aren't too bad. I dig a couple of their tracks... hmm I've been really getting into new artists lately... yes including that smokin' little hottie Avril Lavigne. I'm thinking we should have a CD review section on this here website. I'm thinking a CD review section where even you the average DMusic user can write a mighty fine review on every single CD ever made then we can make this little "Digital Music Oasis" (nice, Simon... nice) more about the music than just interacting. How do you like them apples Tim you want that new feature? I'll pitch it tomorrow to that smokin' little boss of mine.

I'm dilligently working on that Nomad 3 review... it's a bit tough to get to writing it... I'm debating on skipping out on DMNs for a little while to review it and the RioVolt SP-50 both of which are sitting around in my room waiting to be stepped on. Or maybe I'll just skip out on the Church... we'll have to see. But I need to be done with the Nomad by Friday.

Ok let's GO GO GO...

to the newsmobile.

Weezer blow off the big chain stores
Credit Mtv News

After a string of big-budget recordings, arena tours and a video with the Muppets (see "Weezer Collaborate With Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy"), Weezer are reaching back to their DIY roots.

In response to such artists as U2, Destiny's Child and Jewel, who have issued limited-edition releases for sale exclusively at chain outlets, Weezer will release 25,000 copies of a seven-song EP this summer that will only be available at independent mom-and-pop record stores around the country, according to the band's official Web Site.

The disc, The Lion and the Witch, named after the C.S. Lewis children's fantasy book "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," was mostly recorded live during the band's recent Japanese tour. While the track list has not yet been determined, the EP will definitely include a new studio version of "Keep Fishin' " recorded at the end of the tour, and a ghost track of the previously unreleased "Polynesia."

Weezer's latest album, Maladroit, has sold over 360,000 copies since its May 14 release. The band is currently on tour with Dashboard Confessional and Sparta (see "Weezer Nail Down Tour Dates With Dashboard Confessional"). After the last date, August 10 in Concord, California, Weezer are expected to return to the studio to work on more new material. They currently have 14 new demos up on their official Web site.

The new Weezer tracks, according to www.weezer.com:

"Private Message"
"Untenable"
"The Victor"
"Mansion of Cardboard"
"The Organ Player"
"Mad Kow"
"Superstar"
"Lullabye"
"She Who Is Militant"
"Hey Domingo!"
"Running Man"
"Fontana"
"Queen of the Earth"
"367"

Wow I have to say that, that is really a repectable thing that Weezer is doing... Mom a Pop stores of all kinds have been dying the last 20 years of so ever since the inception of retail store. Little record shops have been completely screwed over by the hardly profitable discounts that monster chains like Best Buy, Circuit City and Walmart have been charging for CDs. The record companies usually ask for about 11 bucks per record making the $12.99 CD you buy at any of those chains quite a good deal. If M&P stores charged those type of prices they'd fail miserably... which is where the secondary market of used CDs comes in. Now you remember that article I posted last month about record companies wanting a share of used CDs sales, well that would completely kill good ol' M&P stores completely. It's good to see Weezer stepping up to the plate and supporting the smaller stores against the conglomerate giants. I hope more artists will do the same in the future.

Various Artist Bash Big Music
Credit Yahoo News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Singers and entertainment attorneys criticized California's $41 billion recording industry Tuesday, testifying that it routinely underreports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars.

The speakers were testifying before the state Senate's Judiciary Committee and alleged financial irregularities by the five global corporations that dominate the music business.

Music attorney Don Engel estimated that record companies routinely "underpay 10 to 40 percent on every royalty" and dare artists to challenge it without killing their careers.

"I've heard of this hearing described as a fishing expedition," said entertainment attorney Fred Wilhelms. "There are big fish out there."

The record industry denied the characterizations and cast the allegations in a context of power negotiations between artists and their lawyers and the record labels.

"That's what's going on here. No more, no less," said Steven Marks, senior vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America.

The industry also released an economic analysis that showed fewer than 5 percent of signed artists produce a hit record. Likewise, for every hit, the industry loses $6.3 million on albums that fail.

Among those testifying, singer Sam Moore, formerly of Sam and Dave, recalled learning in his 50s that his retirement fund would be $67 a month because his record label never reported income to his pension fund.

Singer Montel Jordan, who had the 1995 hit, "This is How We Do It," said despite 2 million singles from that release and several albums since, he still owes money to his record label.

"I have sold many gold and platinum records. I've never had a moneymaking loss and yet ... I still haven't recouped," Jordan said.

Several speakers, calling for reforms, suggested the recording industry develop a standard set of accounting rules.

A bill introduced in the Senate would close a record industry exemption from state labor law and limit contracts to seven years.

Well we all know that record companies are a bunch of greedy asses but there's really not much a start up can do but sign a contract that rapes them in the anal cavity. It's either sign the bum deal or don't hit it big... those are the choices. The world is run by greedy people unfortunately and short of destroying careers there is not much people can do about it.

Rob Zombie's 1000 Corpes on hold... again
Credit Bloody-Disgusting.com

It has been reported to us that possibly House of 1000 Corpses is now a free agent.......

After years of waiting and grueling suspense, the bomb was finally dropped that House of 1000 Corpses has found a distributor in MGM. It seems as though the news I (Mr. Disgusting) reported about a month ago, about House becoming NC-17 again, could be the provoking factor in the RUMOR of MGM dropping House from their company.....

"Someone claiming to be Bill Mosely on Bill's offical website informed the public that House of 1000 Corpses has been dropped for the second time.

"MGM dropped House a month ago. Don't know who will distribute or when. I do know that Rob Zombie's next official album is the soundtrack from House of 1000 Corpses! He's on the OzzFest tour right now, whipping up the crowd. But after two-plus years of waiting, most of us are losing heart. Keep your fingers crossed!
Chopster"

Speculation, rumor? Bloody-Disgusting and some friends of ours are in the process of contacting Bill Moseley to confirm this now to be taken as rumor.

Bill Moseley, Chop-Top, wrote back one of our members and had this to say, "Sad but true. MGM dropped us about a month ago. but have faith, Mr. Zombie has a few tricks up his sleeve!
bill m"

So it looks as if we should all not give up hope, for maybe a miracle will happen, until then, let's wait for the offical word from Zombie himself to really start worrying.

Credit Mtv News

During his "Movie House" interview with Affleck, Zombie had explained how Universal dropped the picture because they found the content to be morally objectionable. When the actor asked about MGM, Zombie joked, "Apparently they have no morals over there. They're happy for some blood."

"MGM got wind of it and got so pissed off they shut us down the next day," Zombie said. "We went into editing, and they were like, 'Get out.' ... They went berserk. And literally, they never called me or any of the producers. They had assistants call the editing room and they were like, 'Get out.' It was over in a second, we couldn't get any resolve on it. It was very strange."

On Monday, MGM denied that they ever planned to distribute the picture in the first place.

"It was falsely announced in [Hollywood trade paper] Variety that we had the project," said an MGM spokesperson who asked not to be named. "We never had a deal with Rob Zombie. We were in negotiations, let's put it that way, or we were thinking about it."

Zombie views the situation differently. "MGM came on board," he said last week. "It kind of never really got out, but they were paying all of the bills, they were editing, it was all on their dime, they were investing. So once the studio's paying their money, you know they're into it."

For now, Zombie's going the do-it-yourself route and releasing the picture independently.

"What I think the reality of the situation is, whether it's MGM or Universal, or whatever, the movie's not anything that a major studio wants to touch," he said. "They don't want to deal with it. Everyone will go, 'What about "Hannibal"?' but 'Hannibal's gonna make $300 million, so they're fine. What we've done now is I own the film, and I just hired a company that will do the prints and the advertising. And I'm just gonna release it myself so it cuts out the middle man."

Despite the series of complex setbacks, Zombie said that his "House of 1000 Corpses" experience hasn't soured him on filmmaking.

"I mean, it was a drag," Zombie explained. "But now, looking back, it was completely unrealistic [to think a studio would release the film]. ... These studios are just such big corporate entities, owned by these other companies, and so many investors and stockholders. It's just [that] they don't want controversy.

"It's just a different time for movies," he added. "I've been talking to a lot of people in the business, and it's just like, there's a lot of movies that you love [that could not be made).

Heh Rob probably shouldn't have opened his big hairy lips... oh well the movie sounds sweet. Rob Zombie is such a cool guy. This was a very cool report and the first time I've used double sources in a note! Sweet stuff I hope the movie comes out soon.

More on the Legal Hacking Bill
Credit CNet News

A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.

Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week.

The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."

Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit, and a suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more than $250.

According to the draft, the attorney general must be given complete details about the "specific technologies the copyright holder intends to use to impair" the normal operation of the peer-to-peer network. Those details would remain secret and would not be divulged to the public.

The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would be permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased.

Because Congress only has about five work weeks left before it is scheduled to adjourn for the year, the outlook for the draft bill is uncertain.

But because its sponsors include top Republican and Democratic committee chairmen, it could receive a warm welcome in the House of Representatives at a hearing tentatively scheduled for this fall. Coble is the chairman of the House subcommittee on intellectual property, and Berman is the top Democrat on the panel.

Berman wrote in an opinion article this month that "currently, copyright owners are unable to use some useful technological tools to deal with P2P piracy because they face potential, if unintended, liability under a variety of state and federal laws."

"It's a good bill," Gene Smith, a spokeswoman for Berman, said on Monday. "It's always hard to defend theft and piracy--this bill just puts into the hands of the copyright owners technologies that are already being used by the pirates."

Smith said the purpose of the draft bill was to "fight fire with fire, fight technology with technology."

Jessica Litman, a professor at Wayne State University who specializes in copyright law, said the draft bill improperly encourages "vigilante justice."

"I think it's wildly overreaching," Litman said. "Copyright owners are in essence asking Congress to say that peer-to-peer file trading is such a scorch, is so bad, that stopping it is more important than enforcing any other laws that federal or state governments may have passed on computer security, privacy, fraud and so forth."

Litman said that even if a copyright holder accidentally deleted a home video titled "Snow White," the owner of that PC could be out of luck. "Unless I can show economic harm, I can't even be compensated," Litman said. "Even if I want to be compensated, I have to jump through procedural hoops."

The film and music industries already are developing tools to use against rogue file swapping, though they've remained mum on the details. The RIAA says its members have the right to use any "lawful and appropriate self-help measure."

Fritz Attaway, the MPAA's senior vice president for government relations, endorsed Berman's approach on Monday, stressing that law-abiding Internet users should not be concerned.

"No one in the motion picture industry has any interest in invading your computer or doing anything malicious with your files," Attaway said. "The idea is to make unauthorized file sharing sufficiently inconvenient or at least unsuccessful."

The MPAA and RIAA did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation condemned the draft bill as a sop to Hollywood and the recording industry.

Read More here

There is a LOT more to that article so click on the link and read up on it if you didn't know. Ok I have to seriously wish harm on this Berman guy... he's a putz, y'know what I hope happens? I hope his children download mp3s off the internet. I hope the do in unknowningly behind his back and they get caught red handed and hacked into then I hope those law suits that allow record companies to sue Joe Public mp3 user go through and Mr. Berman being the responsible guardian gets sued and he'll get a taste of his own medicine. Then I also ask any of the gods out there even those crazy bomb setting incest gods of Islam to make his sons homosexuals so that his evil BERMAN SEED will never spread. If they decide to donate sperm I hope they miraculously become sterile. I hate this stupid sack of $h!t. What a Pig F-er. Someone should go slaughter his family so he has some other things to worry about rather than passing a hacking bill. F-him someone just cut off his balls then we'll see what he does. He makes me angry.

Mtv Music Awards Nominees
Credit Zentertainment

Rather than pasting that HUGE list I'll just link it for you instead.

Your link to the VMA Nominees.

Alright then... I'm going to Hell who's coming with me? Afghanistan is only a couple yards to the left.

The sounds of a 1000 boys screaming... and not a priest in sight
Credit Yahoo News

KABUL (Reuters) - Turkish troops leading the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan won friends among hundreds of Afghan families Tuesday after army doctors carried out a mass circumcision of boys who had missed the important Muslim ceremony for one reason or another.

Army doctors from the prestigious Gulhame Military Medical academy in Turkey circumcised more than 90 boys Tuesday and plan to perform the operation on up to 200 others over the next two days.

"Being circumcised is an important rite of passage for any Muslim male," said a Turkish officer overseeing the event who asked not to be identified.

"It is accepted even by non-Muslims for health and hygiene reasons, but for us it is part of our faith," he said.

Most Afghan boys are circumcised between the age of two and five by religious elders who say a prayer before removing the foreskin with a knife -- without anaesthetic.

If the boys are lucky, they will be plunged into an icy stream before the ritual in order to numb any pain.

But the Turkish operation -- while yielding to tradition -- was a strictly medical procedure with a local anaesthetic being applied before the foreskin was removed with a sort of soldering- iron gun that cuts through the flesh and seals the wound behind it at the same time.

Before the operation, the boys were given a huge party with special Turkish cakes and treats. A band played children's' songs as religious elders walked among the boys, muttering prayers and patting them on their heads.

"These boys have missed being circumcised because perhaps there was trouble in their homes or their parents were too poor to afford it," the Turkish officer said.

"Wherever we travel, we like to help the community by doing these sort of things -- even at the rural areas at home."

The boys being circumcised Tuesday -- aged between two and 11 -- were a mixture of ashen-faced fear and confused apprehension as they awaited their turn with the team of eight surgeons and their assistants.

Divided into groups of eight, it took just one nervous wail to get everyone else crying, but once the local anaesthetic took effect they calmed down and generally looked on at the goings-on between their legs with keen interest.

Once the operation was complete, the boys were given a traditional white tunic, dressed in a large nappy and sent on their way -- clutching a bag of presents from a Turkish charity that raised money for the ceremony.

Each bag contained a leather football, a pair of boots and a full soccer strip -- in the colors of the Turkish national team that surprised the world by finishing third in the World Cup won by Brazil last month.

"It takes about five to eight minutes to do each person," an army doctor told Reuters. "If you want, I would be happy to do you and your colleagues."

Ouch... all I can say is ouch...

Oh more Taliban news here's the lyrics to the John Walker Blues song.

Well that's it from me. Back tomorrow.

Joe

What about removing the forehead of Osama Bin Dickhead?

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wow nobody is reading my stuff anymore.

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