It's the BIG D as in DMusical Notes. Today was the Mtv VMAs which I didn't watch. I'm watching it now though. Actually I'm not paying any attention to it since I'm writing but it looks like Britney went biker tonight:

Pretty sweet, ha ha ha... Pink was drunk when she won her award... I should do a play by play of the VMAs... hmm... that'll be fun... I'll try doing it this weekend... maybe.

Probably not...

Oh yeah... Britney look good don't she?

Lets get to the news.

Jacko honored at VMAs
Credit Yahoo News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Jackson, one of the best-selling pop stars of all time, was named the "Artist Of The Millennium," on Thursday to kick off MTV's Video Music Awards.

The annual awards show at New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened on a solemn note, with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band playing "The Rising," the title track to his new hit album inspired by the Sept. 11 tragedy and its aftermath.

But the solemn tone didn't last long as host Jimmy Fallon, a member of the "Saturday Night Live " cast, spoofed a number of the evening's nominees including Latin crooner Enrique Iglesias, indie rockers The White Stripes and new arrival Avril Lavigne.

Nor was Jackson safe from his wit. After Jackson left the stage, Fallon cracked: "Michael Jackson looks great for 44.

"Between you and me, I think he's had some work done," he joked about Jackson's ever evolving appearance.

Jackson revolutionized the music industry with videos like "Thriller," "Beat It," and "Billie Jean."

"When I was a little boy growing up in Indiana if someone told me I'd be getting the artist of the millennium award, I'd never believed it," Jackson said from the stage.

Well somebody still likes Michael Jackson. Of course since almost ALL of the Mtv Awards are rigged... it doesn't really make a difference. Well someone at Mtv likes him at least.

Lance to sing from space
Credit Yahoo News

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - 'N Sync star Lance Bass promised Thursday to sing aboard the international space station when he visits this fall.

But don't expect any cosmic concerts or recordings. Bass says it's all for education's sake.

The 23-year-old member of the popular boy band told reporters the point of his space adventure is to inspire kids to become astronauts, scientists, or anything else — no matter how difficult or seemingly impossible.

As for his own efforts to learn rocketry, space station systems, Russian and NASA lingo, Bass said, "We have been training our butts off."

That's raw talk by NASA standards — broadcast live on television no less.

Bass' participation sets a couple of records: He will be the youngest space traveler ever and the first graduate of space camp — which he attended in Florida 10 years ago — ever to make it to space. He'll be the world's third space tourist.

The singer also set a space program record for the most frequent use of the word "amazing" — 41 times during Thursday's hourlong press conference, by NASA's count. According to Bass, it's been an amazing week at NASA with an amazing space crew and an amazing international mission. "It's going to be amazing," he added.

Bass and his Russian and Belgian crewmates, both professional spacemen, took time out of their training this week at Johnson Space Center to meet with a jammed roomful of reporters and photographers. All three were wearing matching navy golf shirts with the words "Soyuz 5 Crew."

Almost all the questions were directed at Bass, whose mother and all four grandparents watched proudly from the back row. Fellow band member JC Chasez tagged along during Wednesday's work sessions, but had to leave Thursday for the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

Bass said he will be nervous when he rockets away from Kazakhstan on Oct. 28. But he insisted he won't be scared.

He and his crewmates already have put in weeks of training at cosmonaut headquarters in Star City, Russia. The singer was not named to the Russian crew until July and was only endorsed by NASA and the other space station partners this week.

"I kind of came in late in the game, but have been doing 12-hour days, six days a week, so I've definitely been cramming it in as much as I can," Bass said. "But with the help of my crew — and they've been amazing — any questions I have, they're right there for me. I feel very educated at this point and still have two months to go."

Bass insisted he has learned all the necessary emergency procedures and will not be a hindrance. His commander, Sergei Zalyotin, admitted he was "a little skeptical" about Bass at first, but has since come around because of all his training.

TV producers representing Bass have yet to reach a financial deal with to pay the Russians' $20 million price tag. Corporate sponsors are still being lined up for a seven-part TV series that would begin in September and lead up to launch day.

Bass said he's confident it will all work out. His suitcase will hold a new video camera for the documentary, as well as several compact discs for his listening pleasure, lots of country — Faith Hill and Tim McGraw — but definitely no 'N Sync. "I listen to it every day," he said. "I can live a week without that."

He plans to pull out the guitar on the space station and perhaps do some jamming. But there will be no concerts or record-cutting. "It's not about that," he said.

"The education that I'm going to be doing is more like physics studies on video, just being able to talk live with people down in their schools on the ham radio. Just letting them know what it's like to experience, let them see what it's like to be in zero-gravity, to know what it's like to train to become a cosmonaut-astronaut."

Bass shared some of his experiences during a NASA-sponsored Internet chat with school children Thursday evening. Youngsters wanted to know whether being a musician has helped him prepare for his flight, whether his voice will sound differently in space, and how they can keep up with what he'll be doing up there. His answers: Living in a bus while on tour will help him adjust to a confined spacecraft, stay tuned regarding any voice changes, and latch onto a ham radio for his daily space updates.

He's not sure whether he'll write a song in space or about space once he's back.

"Of course, I'll be inspired," he said. "No promises. But I'm pretty sure there will definitely be something in my head."

It'll be "AMAZING" if the ship blows up in the air and he is silenced forever... It's so mean but I know all of you are hoping for the same thing. Maybe he'll become "Lost IN SPACE".

Can't Be Copied CD-Roms
Credit CNet News

Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft say they've found a way to fight CD-ROM software piracy.
The companies said Wednesday they've developed a new anti-copying technology, called "Root," that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being duplicated. The technology is just one part of the computer industry's ongoing efforts to control software piracy.

The Root technology--which prevents illegal copying "from the roots up," the company says--uses encryption keys, an established method of protecting data. The technology encrypts a disc's contents so it cannot be read without a key, which is also located on the disc. The key is hidden in such a way that it can be read by any CD-ROM drive, but cannot be written by a CD-R/RW drive--so that a copied version of the disc would be unreadable.

The key is different for each disc, and is hidden in a different place each time, according to the companies.

Root is a response to the proliferation of CD burners. As the technology becomes a standard component of PCs, the software industry's piracy risk is expected to increase.

"The problem is expected to grow larger in the future, making copyright protection an urgent issue for content holders," the companies said. The companies said that the technique could be applied to DVDs and other media, but not to audio CDs.

In the past, the software industry has attempted to institute measures to prevent illegal copying, using techniques from earlier encryption methods to special hardware keys. However, most software has reverted to a system of supplying a number/letter key that is unique to each product that must be entered by the user to run the software.

Audio CDs are another matter, with some of the major music labels beginning to introduce anticopying measures into their CDs. These are designed to prevent people from "ripping" songs onto a computer hard drive, while theoretically leaving audio quality unimpaired. Such techniques have been known to be incompatible with some audio players, however, and sometimes cause PCs to crash.

JVC plans to offer the encrypted discs through its CD-ROM pressing business, and expects the service to boost revenue 10 percent by 2003. The service is already available in Japan, and will become available in the United States in October.

Hmmm... well more power too them... but how long before someone makes a hack program that can find the "root" and therefore copy the CD-Rom? Get a Crackin' Hackers

Partial List of Mtv VMA winners
Credit Yahoo News

A partial list of the winners at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards:

Best Rap Video — Eminem "Without Me"

Best R&B Video — Mary J. Blige, "No More Drama"

Best Hip-Hop Video — Jennifer Lopez, I'm Real"

Best Rock Video — Linkin Park, "In the End"

Best Pop Video — No Doubt featuring Bounty Killer, "Hey Baby"

Best New Artist in a Video — Avril Lavigne, "Complicated"

Best Group Video — No Doubt featuring Bounty Killer, "Hey Baby"

Best Dance Video — Pink, "Get the Party Started"

Best Video from a Film — Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott, "Hero" ("Spider-Man")

Best Breakthrough Video — The White Stripes, "Fell in Love With a Girl"

MTV2 Award — Dashboard Confessional, "Screaming Infidelities"

Best Direction in a Video — Eminem (Director Joseph Kahn, "Without Me")

Best Choreography in a Video — Kylie Minogue, "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

Eminem was funny. Christina Aguilara had to hand him his award... and the tension between them was a riot and then everyone booed Em because he threatened to punch Moby... heh... cracked me up.

That was fun and now for some other news.

Target: New Fall line Nazi wear
Credit Yahoo News

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Retail giant Target Corp has called on its 1,100 stores to remove shorts and baseball caps marked "eight eight" or "88" -- code among neo-Nazis for "Heil Hitler" because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

"Target is a family-oriented store and company and it is not our intent to carry any merchandise that promotes hate," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Minneapolis-based Target, one of the largest discount chains in the country, directed its stores to remove the items after being alerted to the problem through the efforts of a California shopper and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national organization which tracks racist groups.

Joseph Rodriguez, a 51-year-old video producer/director at the University of California-Davis, discovered the "88" products in a Sacramento-area Target store in late July.

Rodriguez was looking at a pair of red shorts -- marked with skulls and other symbols -- when he noted that they also bore the numeric white supremacist code.

"I just thought they were cool," Rodriguez said in a release provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center. "But when I saw the 'EIGHT EIGHT,' I couldn't believe it."

Rodriguez said he knew of the significance of the "88" from watching a recent documentary about white supremacist music, and immediately sought to alert Target to the problem.

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said white supremacist groups often use symbols or codes "as a way of communicating with each other under the radar screen of the public."

"The noxious thing is when these symbols make their way into popular culture and gain widespread acceptance in the mainstream," he said.

A Target spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday. But the Sacramento Bee reported that the clothing was manufactured by UTILITY, one of Target's private labels, and that the company was investigating how it ended up being approved.

Target offered refunds for any shopper who wished to return the merchandise.

Wear it PROUD you silly Nazi folk... Target is the place to go for your Nazi Gear this season... Seig Heil!!!!

Alright enough devil worship for one evening for me. Laterz

Joe

"Video Star of the Millenium" - that's about as useful as that truckload of "87" hats K-Mart bought by mistake. Double oops!

Maybe Sony bought Wacko Jacko the award to shut him up?

First post!

Without launching on another thread about MJ's skills and all, let me just say that it's a fair indication of where mass-music is headed that he has been feted time and time again . It's getting close to 2003, and they are STILL talking about the 80's and 90's. Sounds like the current crop aint measuring up to much, huh?

I love the 88 story, first I have heard of it. I say we band together and create some anti-political correct definitions for brands and logos we don't like, so they will be changed. Gotta be an acronym we can create for Polo and say the man-on-horse logo, promoted bestiality or something.

Death to all corporate logos and slogans! WE live in an insane society, people.

I'm thinking the Nike Swoosh looks a little too phallic, ya know?

I couldn't read the rest of the article since my eyes went blind. Ever think of puttin' Britney at the end? hehe ....Britneeeeyyy

Too bad she has to spoil it all by talking, eh milla?

yep 4th post not bad but thats ok.

Hehe, right.

I suppose it depends on what she says. I mean, if she were to say sumpm like, "milla, I want you to be my love slave for as long as I remain sexually active," or moan my name repeatedly in the heat of pleasure, I might just put off taping her mouth shut for a while.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

JACKSON DIDN'T WIN ANY AWARD!!

They just gave him a cake for his birthday, Britney said that she thinks he's the artist of the millenium and he took it literally!

He grabed some cheesy note cake ornament and thought it was the "arist of the millenium award"

he went on to congradulate people and say "i would have never believed i win would the artist of the millenium award" neither did MTV, cause it doesn't even exist! ahahahaha

way to go JACkO!

Afterwards Fallon came out holding another cake ornament saying he won the artist of the millenium award too! i guess he was the only person who picked up on it, good job yahoo news on making yourselves look just as stupid as stupid michael

Triumph the insult comic dog did a good job making eminem startled right before he won his award, then get booed by the whole audience, but they're all fake, cause 10 minutes later he went up to accept another award and they were cheering for him again, fucking dumbass american teenyboppers, and fuck you eminem. you suck.

I love J.Lo and I wanna impregnate her and all but giving her hip-hop video award???!?!?! Damn, maybe pop or somethin but hip-hop award??? Sure she did the song with ja rule but he turned from mediocre rapper to a mediocre sing song "r&b thug" for cryin out loud . Ehh, I guess DMX and Nas are gonna sweep the country music awards since we're being retarded with our genres to rig the awards. And yo is this true about michael jackson only getting a cake??

MTV awards that good, eh? glad I missed them then

Hmm, Britney in leather. Ah, Milla's secret love slave, I better not say what I thought of her in that outfit (the words thick, plastic, skin and arse were gonna be mentioned but when Milla's done with her I dont think she'll be looking quite so good!)

Why cant we have our own music awards here? I'll handle security, Smelvin pick the artists and Dee can host, just make sure she dont walk out halfway through!

I didn't watch the VMAs. I could have but I didn't, I really don't care.

lol, yeah, she may need to freshen up.

LOL@our award hosts!

oh ya d music awards I can see it now! lol rotflmao ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha hahbahahbekjbrgds;jf

It looks like some people did and didn't take my advice.

heh... we should hold a DMusic Awards

actually a write in poll on what the site users think is hot or not would be an interesting thing.
nice to see what you so called hipsters really are listening to.

arrrggg........... this is freeek..... did not wanna hear most of this.......

I dont buy clothes in malls..... you can find the same stuff at gabes for 1/10th price!!!!!

plus the stuff at the mall you can't return!!

just go gabes!!!!!

chow peeps!

CDC, i don't think anybody has any idea what the hell you're talking about...or where it came from...are you alright?

can you PLEASE explain so i don't think you're messed up in the head?

Well if it doesn't work for audio cd's... and if you can just record the video out from a dvd player into a computer program, wth's the point? Since the video out would be decrypted it doesn't seem like it would solve anything but make it harder for people who make backups of their own purchased stuffed. Just my opinion anyway. I don't know enough about it to really say any more.

Can someone explain to CDC that this site uses word wrap, so she can type more than one sentence at a time?

I think she's just trying to build up the number of comments for statistical purposes. (grin)

I think she's just trying to build up the number of comments for statistical purposes. (grin)

No, she's just being CDC.

MrXero: that was what I thought some months ago. There was a thread about that that got lost.

I read about the NSync guy on the paper.... I think the Russians should do some good for man kind and leave him there

i think the VMAs can kiss my ass.. the only parts i thought were any good was that kid who was the dancer for ashanti and busta rhymes and all them.. did anybody see him? it was hilarious- he was like 9 years old! and fallon did an okay job though i was a little disappointed to be honest, with some of his "jokes."

i thought michael's outfit was hilarious. and christina's outfit.. or lack there of. .was at least..creative?