Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Roger Water's Pig - Video: What happens when a pig lands in your yard? | MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

 

LA QUINTA - Coachella festival organizers identified the remains of musician Roger Waters' massive, inflatable "capitalist" pig Tuesday at La Quinta's upscale Hideaway Golf Club.

The helium-filled, school-bus-sized pig had unexpectedly escaped the Empire Polo Club field during Waters' set on Sunday. For its recovery, organizers offered a $10,000 reward and four Coachella tickets for life.

"That's definitely our pig," Coachella producer Bill Fold said.

Sadly, now it looks more like pulled pork: crumpled heaps of shredded, spray-painted plastic.

The flyaway pig story grabbed headlines on news sites and music blogs around the country.

As reported Tuesday at mydesert.com, two Hideaway couples each discovered a half of the deflated pig the morning after its ill-fated journey through the desert sky.

Fold said it initially drifted as far north as Highway 111 before blowing back south as it ascended.

The two couples will split the cash reward and each pair will get four Coachella tickets for life, Fold said. They'll also receive all-access passes to this weekend's Stagecoach music festival.

The pig has been a trademark concert prop for Waters and his former Pink Floyd bandmates since 1977, when they released the capitalism critique "Animals." Waters was playing a song from the album Sunday when the swine escaped.

Video: What happens when a pig lands in your yard? | MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

Absinthe's Mind-Altering Mystery Solved

 

An analysis of century-old bottles of absinthe - the kind once quaffed by the likes of van Gogh and Picasso to enhance their creativity - may end the controversy over what ingredient caused the green liqueur's supposed mind-altering effects .

The culprit seems plain and simple: The century-old absinthe contained about 70 percent alcohol, giving it a 140-proof kick. In comparison, most gins, vodkas and whiskeys are just 80- to 100-proof.

Absinthe's Mind-Altering Mystery Solved - Yahoo! News

Friday, April 25, 2008

Accelerate : R.E.M. : Review : Rolling Stone

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What a surprise! I go away for a few days and come back all these new friend requests. I can't say what's changed to cause such an interest but I'm certainly not disappointed!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

'How Long Have We Been Waiting To Do This, Dudes?' | Video | Motley Crue Announce Inaugural Crue Fest | MTV

 

Motley Crue Announce Inaugural Crue Fest

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    'How Long Have We Been Waiting To Do This, Dudes?'Tommy Lee and the rest of the Crüe announced the festival's lineup and dates at a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday. (4.16.08)

Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Trapt and Sixx:A.M. will join the hair-metal pioneers for the summer tour, which kicks off July 1.

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Tommy Lee and the rest of the Crüe announced the festival's lineup and dates at a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday. (4.16.08)

'How Long Have We Been Waiting To Do This, Dudes?' | Video | Motley Crue Announce Inaugural Crue Fest | MTV

'X-Files' movie title is out there: 'I Want to Believe' - MSN Movies News

 

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'X-Files' movie title is out there: 'I Want to Believe'

April 16, 2008, 11:45 AM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.

Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title

'X-Files' movie title is out there: 'I Want to Believe' - MSN Movies News

Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever - Yahoo! News

 

Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery.

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Now unexpected powerful tunes have been discovered in this hum. These new findings could shed light on the source of this enigma.

The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing, even when the ground isn't shaking from an earthquake. (It does not cause the ringing in the ear linked with tinnitus.) This sound, first discovered a decade ago, is one that only scientific instruments - seismometers - can detect. Researchers call it Earth's hum.

Investigators suspect this murmur could originate from the churning ocean, or perhaps the roiling atmosphere. To find out more, scientists analyzed readings from an exceptionally quiet Earth-listening research station at the Black Forest Observatory in Germany, with supporting data from Japan and China.

Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever - Yahoo! News

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