Friday, April 15, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
BECAUSE MERELY RUINING THE 76ERS ISN'T ENOUGH: AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron has indicated that he's open to allowing texting in movie theaters.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
OH, HE'S INSPIRING SOMETHING, ALRIGHT: Peter Cetera will not be joining Chicago at the Rock and Roll Non-Country Popular Music of the 1950s and Beyond Hall of Fame induction ceremony, because ...
In January, Cetera posted a letter on his website saying he was willing to perform "25 or 6 to 4" that night, also suggesting that all of Chicago's living members, past and present, be invited to play the song....
Lamm was communicating with Cetera by email and said "there was always a desire and assumption on my part" that Cetera would be there and perform during the ceremony. But Cetera apparently had other ideas. "He decided he wanted to play [the song] in a different key if he was going to play with us, which is definitely not going to happen, and then he wanted to play with his band but not with us and sing his songs or sing whatever songs the Hall wants him to sing," Lamm said. "It's all very strange."
Thursday, April 7, 2016
PANTS ON THE GROUND: My total Idol viewing amounts to probably 20 minutes, but yeah, when 538 538's about it in honor of the "series finale" we'll link to it. (And probability of the show being back on the air in some manner by Spring 2018 seems to me to approach 1.)
Monday, April 4, 2016
CROSSOVER: The National Basketball Hall of Fame today announced that its 2016 induction class will include Allen Iverson, future WWE HoFer Shaquille O'Neal, Tom Izzo, Sheryl Swoopes, Yao Ming, and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Friday, April 1, 2016
KFOG, RIP: If you grew up in the Bay Area, around 1984, KFOG changed over from an all Musak/Elevator format to slowly become the heart of Bay Area rock n' roll radio. It had a few years, here and there, where a program director took it on an odd turn, but it hosted any number of Bay Area radio institutions: 10 at 10 ("Ten Great Songs from One Great Year!"), Acoustic Sunrise, KFOG's Live from the Archives and one of the more intelligent morning shows.
Yesterday, Cumulus Broadcasting sacked everyone, near enough, and have gone to a no-host format. The same sort of music, nominally, but cheaper. I don't listen to much music radio anymore, but over the 19 years since I've been back from law school and here in the Bay Area, KFOG was the only place I ever picked up on new bands or new songs, many of which became very dear to me. And since our love of KFOG was one of those things over which Mrs. Earthling and I first bonded, many of those songs are the soundtrack of us.
And it's gone.
And, worst of all, today they ended a tradition that had lasted for the entirety of its modern format. At 5 pm, they played The Toyes "Smoke Two Joints" -- a thing that, at 14 or 15, seemed subversive and as I grew older was, in turn, silly, ironic, nostalgic, an anthem of the Bay Area and my love of home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfduFy26EE0
Yesterday, Cumulus Broadcasting sacked everyone, near enough, and have gone to a no-host format. The same sort of music, nominally, but cheaper. I don't listen to much music radio anymore, but over the 19 years since I've been back from law school and here in the Bay Area, KFOG was the only place I ever picked up on new bands or new songs, many of which became very dear to me. And since our love of KFOG was one of those things over which Mrs. Earthling and I first bonded, many of those songs are the soundtrack of us.
And it's gone.
And, worst of all, today they ended a tradition that had lasted for the entirety of its modern format. At 5 pm, they played The Toyes "Smoke Two Joints" -- a thing that, at 14 or 15, seemed subversive and as I grew older was, in turn, silly, ironic, nostalgic, an anthem of the Bay Area and my love of home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfduFy26EE0
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