At this point it is now 12 hours later when I'm posting this. I was having major computer trouble last night and couldn't get online to actually post the article. But here you have it... Monday's LATE DMusical Notes.

News is sucky today and my damn computer keeps kicking me offline so I'm making this real quick since I've been kicked off about 9 times since I started tonight.

Stealing Harvard was funny but we'll get into it at the closer.

Napster bring home the Bacon
Credit CNet News

More than a dozen bidders have expressed interest in buying the assets of bankrupt online music-swapping site Napster, an investment banker handling the bidding process said on Monday.
Rick Chance, managing director at Trenwith Securities, the investment banking unit of BDO Seidman LLP, said that the bids will be analyzed and the bank will provide a recommendation to Napster's official creditors committee later this week.

Bidding will close for Napster's assets on Sept. 17.

In a ruling on Friday, a bankruptcy judge gave Trenwith and the committee until Friday, Sept. 27 to select the highest and best bidder for Napster's assets, Chance said. The Napster asset sale has drawn both U.S. and international bidders.

Last Thursday, Private Media Group, a Barcelona-based adult entertainment company that is traded on the Nasdaq, had publicized its own bid of 1 million shares in Private Media stock. This bid, which amounts to about $2.85 million based on Private Media's current share price, puts it well beneath the minimum bid threshold set by the investment bank on Sept. 3.

NOW people care about Napster... heh.

Weekend Box Office Draws
Credit AP Press & Zentertainment

1. "Barbershop," $21 million.

2. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," $11 million.

3. "One Hour Photo," $7.7 million.

4. "Stealing Harvard," $6.3 million.

5. "Swimfan," $6.1 million.

6. "Signs," $5.3 million.

7. "City by the Sea," $4.8 million.

8. "XXX," $3.3 million.

9. "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams," $2.4 million.

10. "Austin Powers in Goldmember," $1.8 million.

Dammit, I've been kicked offline again... I write this as I wait for my damn internet connection to log back on, which has failed 3 times already. Man this is irritating.

Hmm I may keep a tally as I write...

hit 5 since the last mention and this doesn't include the 9 from when I wrote the opener.

Well Stealing Harvard was a damn funny movie... Tom Green was bizarre as usual. Jason Lee is a great actor but the movie felt a bit... cheap I suppose is the word for it. It wasn't like it was a classy flick of any kind. The gags though funny were a bit thrown together.

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But through that I can't believe that not only did Barber Shop beat out Stealing Harvard it CREAMED it by placing first...

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... at this weekend's box office draw. That's amazing to me cause the movie looks horrible in the previews. Well "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was number two so this has to be a weekend out of Bizarro World.

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Damn... hit it again. I'll be lucky if I get to post this article tonight.

Well since I can't log on to post this I suppose I'll ramble on some more... Caught the season Premier of the Sopranos last night... I must say the show is as good as ever. I'm a bit iffy on the whole wide screen thing though. Seems kind of forced especially since I was used to the 4:3 of the first two seasons. Y'know what though since I've got the time now to just sit and ramble I'm gonna let the last like 5 of you readers on a little bit of insider info.

It's almost a year since I started with these DMusical Notes and I quit a few months back only to return when the site was not being updated at all because Angelo, Simon and a the last of the old DMusic crew quit. I figured I'll just keep on posting and at least the site won't be completely dead, and I got a lot of readership then... Now with Larry, Bill and Mike posting regularly it seems more like nobody wants to read my little doo-dad article and I'm growing a bit tired of writing it.

It's frustrating I guess that nobody really enjoys DMusical Notes anymore. Not to mention in my real world life I'm having quite the hard time finding a job through my major.

BTW I've hit number 10, 11, 12 and 13 tries to log online as I typed this. Actually I even gave my computer a break. This is really starting to piss me off.

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Anyway to get to the point since the site is nice and flourished again, well just a tiny bit better than 3 months ago. At least I'm no longer the ONLY person posting news anymore. Though I find the news a LOT less about music and more about the digital rights. I'm thinking about dropping the article again, this way I can focus more on the hardware site that (hopefully) the webmasters have been working on. Though I have a feeling that nothing has been started yet.

Tell me what you think?

Joe

Hey Joe, dont drop the notes.
I read nearly everyone of them. They always give me something to do on my lunch break at work.
All in all I enjoy them.

Yeah you can't drop it. I visit the site pretty much just to read the article. You are doing a damn good job.

what they said

Ditto. How else will Ryan and I pass the time?

Fourth post!

Don't stop. How about doing them once a week? That way you could invest more energy into them and you won't have to scramble for news if it's a slow day.

:fifth post:

I love Dmusical notes damnit!!

You gonna cut it off altogether, Joe? I like Cryxan's idea. Once a week perhaps? This'd free up the workload a bit.

Well thanks for the feedback...

I guess I'm going to take Dmusical Notes full circle to October 22nd and see where life leads me then. It'll be the one year anniversary of the first DMN and It'll be nice to say I accomplished that.

I may drop down to a one week format though not because of the slow news days but because I could easily find more Other News articles to fill the gaps or write more editorial items... but if the hardware site gets finished soon I could try harder to pump out reviews more often. Though this site is not really known for it's mp3 player reviews anymore.

And if I went to a weekly format I don't know if anyone would want to read the article since it may end up being 10 page recaps of the week in news. I mean imagine if I took all 4 DMNs in a week and posted one giant article... It'd be simply HUGE. I'm not sure many of you would want to take on the task of reading 10-15 pages of old news... unless I did a LOT of extra commenting I suppose. I'll keep thinking about it though.

Out of all the things on this site, I have to say your DMusical notes are one of the things I've pretty much read regularly. You're just having a creativity/brain/total mental disturbance Once a week if you can would be cool, just dont give it up. Rant a little harder, pick on something from time to time and keep adding the personal comments.

Or try downing a bottle of vodka and writing them. Ewwww /jk

heh CW used to get drunk before he wrote hardware reviews. That's a little known secret that's no longer one.

Don't stop Joe the party is just starting!

Damn Joe, again ya quittin??
How about less often then instead of none? Yeah yeah there we go!!! Then again you quitting dmusic notes is startin to become like Jordan "retiring" cept a bad back and knees won't make your articles turn into crap