It's Monday again, that's right kids it's a new week and a new edition of your DMusical Notes!

I've been surfing this weird wide web thing all night and I discovered a sweet little search engine site called Alexa which is basically a search engine but it lists sites in order of popularity well I typed in DMusic and guess what I find? We are 46,695. That's not too shabby but we can do much better. After doing a few searches I discovered that DMusical Notes was linked at some classical music site called La Scena Musicale Online wow... I didn't think anyone short of the few regulars actually even glance at my article... I'm not sure about this but I think of all the DMusic articles my Nex II review and my SlimX review are the 3rd and 4th most popular DMusic item... like I said "I think" though... it's the only reviews that they listed so I can only assume that they are the most popular.

Wow... it's already past 3 am now so I better get cracking.

RIAA wants P2P trial to end
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Both sides want to end the copyright infringement lawsuit against popular file-swapping services Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster quickly--they just disagree on who should win.

Attorneys for the record labels, movie studios and music publishers trade groups filed papers Monday asking a federal judge for summary judgment, or a ruling against the file-swapping companies before going to a full trial. The groups submitted sealed arguments they said stemmed from six months of investigation proving the file-swapping companies knowingly contributed to widespread copyright infringement.

All three companies have done their best to emulate Napster's success, creating "candy stores of infringement that allow a user to find the most popular music and movies of our time without paying any of the rights holders," the trade groups said.

Also Monday, lawyers for Morpheus' parent company StreamCast Networks asked the judge to rule quickly in their favor, saying that Morpheus had too many legal uses to be shut down in response to illegal file-traders' actions.

The lawsuit over Kazaa and the other services is viewed by many in the legal and technology communities as potentially even more influential than the suit that ultimately forced predecessor Napster out of business.

Kazaa, Grokster and, at one time, Morpheus all were built on the same underlying technology, created by a Netherlands-based team of programmers, which some argue makes the case less clear-cut than was Napster's trial.

That technology, dubbed FastTrack, allowed people to swap virtually any type of digital file they wanted, including video, software and music files. Moreover, like the Gnutella technology used by Limewire, Bearshare and newer versions of Morpheus, FastTrack was decentralized, requiring no company to help serve as a middleman for swaps or searches...

Want to finish it? Click on the link above to read more. Well if they want it to end so bad they should drop it. It's not copyright infringement because it's sharing and getting the music out there. If you were to rely on merely the radio and Mtv to spread word of mouth popularity the world will be stuck with 6 genres of cookie cutter bands.

9/11: The MUSICAL???
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Sergei Dreznin knows it's risky to debut a musical about Sept. 11 on the anniversary of the attacks.

However, Dreznin, a Moscow-born composer who lives in New York City, says he couldn't resist capturing how the spirit of New York has endured. He felt compelled as an artist, he says, "to tell the most important story that could possibly be told."

"Vienna-New York Retour," which premieres Wednesday at Vienna's Metropol Theater, chronicles the destruction of the World Trade Center and the aftermath through the eyes of Suzanne, a struggling young singer who lands a dream role on Broadway on the eve of the attacks.

Director Jesse Webb, a native of Baton Rouge, La., who now lives in Berlin, said he had to overcome initial misgivings about the piece, which makes its U.S. debut later this year in Washington, D.C.

"When Sergei first approached me, I told him, `You can't do this. You can't write a musical about Sept. 11,'" Webb said.

"Then I realized that a lot of people have never really processed what happened. It just sat there in their subconscious. We've been careful not to wallow in the sentimental aspect of the attack. We just want to offer a means for dealing with it."

On the morning of the attacks, Suzanne sets out from Queens for her first rehearsal in Manhattan. She is fretting about being late, when an ominous announcement comes over the subway's public address system: "Service on the L-train to downtown Manhattan will be suspended indefinitely."

Curious for more? Click on the title link. I'm a bit shocked that they'd do a musical about it... well it sounds like a tasteful musical that shows the courage of America... speaking of which... if something happens on 9/11 this year. Bombings, suicides or just any weird acts of terrorism it'll be ironically funny... not a HA HA kind of funny though but the sad kind as if what the hell is wrong with the world? What the hell is the government doing? President Bush better be working his damndest to ensure that we are all safe this 1st anniversary.

Proof that Dreams DON'T come true
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Pop star Lance Bass' dreams of going into space have officially gone "pop!"

The Russian Space Agency notified NASA ( news - web sites) on Monday that the 'N Sync ( news - web sites) singer won't fly to the international space station ( news - web sites) next month.

Bass had hoped to rocket away from Kazakhstan on Oct. 28, boosted by corporate sponsors and a seven-part television documentary. But TV producers failed to raise the estimated $20 million fare, and Russian space officials last week kicked Bass off the upcoming crew.

Bass' supporters contended the decision was not final and that negotiations were continuing, but Monday's letter to NASA formalized the matter.

"The letter speaks for itself," said NASA spokeswoman Debra Rahn. "They've officially withdrawn Mr. Bass from the flight."

The letter from Russia's director of human space flight was dated Friday and faxed Monday to Frederick Gregory, NASA's deputy administrator and chairman of the board that was reviewing Bass' bid to fly to space. NASA promptly forwarded copies of the letter to the other space agencies involved in the station program, namely Canada, Europe and Japan.

Rahn said Russia's M.V. Sinelshchikov thanked Gregory and other space station officials for reviewing Bass' proposal to fly to the orbiting outpost. But he noted that the Russian Space Agency could wait no longer for the contractual obligations to be met, she said.

The singer's publicist, Jill Fritzo, was not immediately available for comment.

Yeah there's more... long articles tonight eh? I like this new format though... cuts down on a bit of time consuming code I usually type out... Oh yeah... this sucks... and I was so hoping that the bug eyed bastard would blast off into space and never come back... Damn you Jiminy Cricket... you lied to me you creepy sonufabitch.

Want to own Kurt's old house??
Credit Zentertainment

An Oregon couple is hoping to cash in on Kurt Cobain's childhood.

Ed and Jennifer McKee, of Oregon City, Ore., are auctioning off the former Nirvana frontman's childhood homes on eBay.

The couple, who invest in houses to fix up and sell, bought the home last month for $42,500. At the time, they said they had no idea Cobain once lived there.

Cobain lived in the house from age 11 to 15 with his father, Don, and his stepmother, Jenny. Much of the house, including Cobain's bedroom, described as "nautical" on the eBay website, has not been changed since he lived there, McKee said.

The McKee's set an opening bid of $200,000, although the turn-of-the-century home was valued at only $52,660 in 2000. As of Sunday, no one had offered a bid. The auction ends Sept. 15.

Cobain, committed suicide with a shotgun in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994. He was 27.

I just checked up on the auction, which you can find here and there have been 9 bids placed now... I kind of feel like bidding for fun just to say that I bid on Kurt Cobain's house... but if I won that would suck cause I don't even have 2,000 bucks saved up right now let alone 200,000... so I better not. Hey Leanora... can I get a raise so I can pick up this house?

Wow... well that was a bit of fun wasn't it? Here's some Other News for you to chew on.

Grow Green Hair
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Scientists have successfully inserted a foreign gene into the DNA of mice that was later incorporated into growing hair shafts.

"This will allow us to search for genes that will give a cosmetic benefit as well as potential therapeutic benefits when inserted into the hair follicle," said the study's lead author Dr. Robert M. Hoffman of AntiCancer Inc., a San Diego, California-based biotechnology company.

While the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene, which comes from jellyfish, has no medical significance, the main goal was to determine if the researchers could make transgenic mouse hair.

The mouse genome did indeed take up the GFP gene, researchers report in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( news - web sites).

Hoffman and his colleagues began by inserting GFP into an inactivated virus. Then they removed small bits of skin from mice and treated their skin with the enzyme collagenase. The collagenase made the hair follicles in the skin accessible to the virus, which was used to "micro-inject" the DNA containing the GFP gene, Hoffman explained.

"This allowed the efficient transfer of the GFP gene to the hair follicles," he said. The treated fragments of skin were then transplanted onto other mice.

"The gene-modified hair follicles then produced modified hair shafts, which were easily detected by GFP fluorescence," Hoffman said.

Roughly 75% of the mice hair follicles contained the new gene, the report indicates.

With regard to cosmetic implications, Hoffman noted that patients undergoing hair transplants, where skin fragments could be treated in a similar fashion as in the mouse experiment, could use this technology. This would require that the researchers discover genes that confer cosmetic benefits, he pointed out.

In addition, the hair follicle "could also be used as a 'factory' to produce therapeutic products as well," Hoffman said.

The therapeutic gene could be chosen depending on the disease one wishes to treat. The hair follicle could express this gene and produce the therapeutic product, he noted.

"It must be emphasized that this early technology is now appropriate only in animal experiments and not for use in humans. We will exploit this technology to discover useful cosmetic and therapeutic genes that can be transferred in this manner or perhaps modifying the technology to transfer the genes directly without removal of the skin," Hoffman told Reuters Health.

"It also must be emphasized that any type of gene transfer in humans will be very carefully scrutinized by the FDA ( news - web sites) before approval," he added.

"It is difficult to speculate when such technology would be applicable to human trials," Hoffman stated. "A guess would be in the order of 5 years."

SOURCE: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2002;10.1073/pnas.192453799.

Tough Punishment
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian man cut off his seven- year-old daughter's head after suspecting she had been raped by her uncle, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper said on Sunday.

A post-mortem, however, showed the girl was still a virgin.

"The motive behind the killing was to defend my honor, fame, and dignity," the paper quoted the father as saying.

Rape often goes unreported in Iran where the conservative society sees it as bringing shame on the victim and family.

Local people have called for the man, who has been arrested, to be hanged, but under Iran's Islamic law only the father of the victim has the right to demand the death sentence.

The paper said the father, named as Khazir, has three wives.

Well just think in 5 short years YOU can get your own Gene transplant and have YOUR hair grow out green!!!!!! How exiting... you punk rockers out there are dying for this aren't ya? AREN'T YA, YA FREAKS! Wow... science... what a waste of time.

Hmm and I thought my parents were rough... My question is how did the father find out he raped her? And if the Uncle did indeed rape her then he must have had one small pecker, he couldn't even pop a 7 year old's cherry.

What the hell is wrong with this dude... Well she wasn't raped anyway so he must feel like an ass... I doubt it though... I'm sure there was a better reason for killing the kid... a reason I doubt he'll reveal. This is pretty sick... no wonder they don't mind crashing planes into civilian buildings... these Islamic crazyfuks show little remorse when killing their own children.

Gee, I wonder what Santa's gonna give HIM for X-Mas...

Glad to leave ya on a down note.

Joe

I still say we should have gotten all the survivialists out of the woods in Montana and Idaho and sent them into Afghanistan. They're into defending the American way of life, well, there ya go!

First post!

ummm... where is everyone?

No no NO!
A musical with a storyline that's completely fabricated fiction has NO PLACE in a world that's still feeling raw nerves as to the events of September 11, 2001. It's one thing to just write a story about some small person that was involved, for that's written and therefore not a deliberate display. And it's certainly good to write music about it, because music is a way that a person can display his innermost feelings. But a musical? That is an attention-grabber, meant to be a spectacle and a show. Meant to showcase some extravagant story generally about completely fictitous characters, usually taking only minimal effort to fit in to any real concept of world and time.
A musical about September 11 is capitalizing on human tragedy. It's capitalizing in the sense of ticket profits, true, but also in the sense of taking advantage of high-currrent emotions to bring one's work to the fore. Look at the basis of the plot. Young person gets dream job, from nowhere to somewhere big, so she thinks. Anyone who thinks that's NOT a cliche needs to reconsider their thought processes. So it's already an overused plot that probably would be overlooked, and it's being stuck into the horrors of September 11, to make it visible or something. If anything, that makes it worse than just being a cliche.
September 11 was indeed a human tragedy, and I think the musical probably will address that, but it's more of a tragedy because it stopped so much about regular life and the things we took for granted. Yes, some people's dreams were destroyed, but the particularly horrifying aspect really was HOW IT ALL DISRUPTED EVERYDAY life. Musicals don't show everyday life.
And a Broadway chorus singing something no doubt to the extent of "The sky is falling! The towers are falling!" Don't even get me started......

Valid points...
If that musical ever came to the US I wonder if anyone would ever go? I sure as hell wouldn't.

I'd boycott it! People who would go would no doubt be the blindly patriotic types, not the people who recognize the true depth of the tragedy outside of nationalistic boundaries.
*growls menacingly*
Not to mention those who would go have clearly never seen the sites. I can still picture the Pentagon as it was in early October when I close my eyes. Too close to home, far too close to home.

I just think it's awesome to see dsch so fired up about something! I'm withya dee-ess-cee-aitch, go get em!

Dare I ask why it's so awesome to see me so fired up?

Ehhh, a musical about 9/11?? You mean a barotone Bin Laden and scenes including dancing hi jackers and singing passengers on the planes and people in the twin towers hitting hi-soprano notes and... ehh... how low some people will stoop to. Only way someone can stoop lower then this is if FOX were to make a sitcom about Al Queda these events.

I'm surprised no one is talking about the beheaded child... I thought that article was insane... no comments about it? anyone?

That is insane.
But my mind is entirely preoccupied with other things.

whoa did i miss somethin

Well, i think it is a great idea to make a song about the 9-11. Why not

I saw the Maury Show about a year later of 9-11 did anybody see that?

Writing a song about September 11 is one thing. A single song is a personal reaction. But a musical?!?!
Augh!

*is going insane*

* he is giving a straight jacket to dsch* I don't always do this, but my coinscience keeps telling me that

no hard feeling, my gracious stallion