I’m bored with that. You can do better.
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4. “Something Vague”
Now and again it seems worse than it is
But mostly the view is accurate
You see your breath in the air as you climb up the stairs
To that coffin you call your apartment
And you sink in the chair, brush the snow from your hair
And [dream] the cold away
And you’re not really sure what you’re doing this for
But you need something to fill up the days
A few more hours
There’s a dream in my brain that just won’t go away
It’s been stuck there since it came a few nights ago
I’m standing on a bridge in the town where I lived
As [your] kid with my mom and my brothers
And then the bridge disappears and I’m standing on air
with nothing holding me
And I hang like a star, fucking glow in the dark
For all their starving eyes to see
Like the ones we’ve wished on, but now I’m confused
Is this death really you?
Do these dreams have any meaning?
No, no, I think it’s more like a ghost
That’s been following us both
Something vague that we’re not seeing
Something more like a feeling
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If you’re tempted to play, you might look into playing through a proxy. That way you wouldn’t need to start a new guy just to find out what time it is when you’re “afk.” But….
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I HATE TICKETMASTER. I’m sure I’m not alone, but I can’t believe these guys can still get away with their shit. Buying spring training tickets today, I got assessed at total of $21 in “order processing charge” OVER the $40 “convenience charge.” What makes me unable to control my temper is there’s no way to avoid an order charge per event- even if you call on the phone, they’ll apply an order charge for each set of tickets you ask for in the same call.
How can this continue?
I can’t believe I’m playing Arctic again.
Added at Stardate 75864.5 by Dave.
Matt:
I’ve missed S-K, GBV, Wilco, Jay, and probably more others than I’d care to recall because I’m always going to walk down to Irving Plaza to pick up tickets and avoid the service charge – only to get there (or not) and find out that TBastard has all (or none) of the remaining tickets. Having only one large good venue in town has been a pain in my ass for 5+ years.
I always counted myself lucky that the bowery ballroom used Ticketweb, and figured that if I was stupid enough to miss someone when they played there, before moving up to IP, I deserved to miss them. That was before my latest Death Cab purchase, when I found out that TW had, also, decided that it was fair to start charging 20+%.
Maybe I can get folks to start playing my fire escape, if they wouldn’t mind the subway ride
What’s your character’s name?
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So I’ve been screwing around with an idea lately (I know, cheating on my normal lack of thoughts..), and I’ve never heard it summed up as well as I did here
If you want to operate an internet radio station legally,
you need to do these things:
Follow the play limits and other restrictions on content
mentioned in the DMCA, and summarized above;
Fill out the licensing forms from
ASCAP,
BMI, and
SESAC,
and send each of them at least a couple hundred dollars a year;
Fill out the webcasting licensing
form for
RIAA,
and expect them to start hitting you with a large bill some time
next year.
If you want to do something different, for example, if you want
to let users choose the songs to download, or you want to archive dj
sets, or you want to allow the world at large to collaboratively dj
by voting on what song to play next, or anything at all
interactive that actually takes advantage of the power of the
internet: well... you're fucked. When you go into that world, you
are out of the ``compulsory license'' territory, and must negotiate
with all of the copyright holders individually, which is
prohibitively complicated, since there are so many of them.
Added at *unbreakable numeric code-time* by dave:
One addition to the linked info: BMI statistically samples your station rather than figures it out on their own- you have to fill out a log over a 72-hour period at least twice a year. Kind of fun if you work at a station, since you get to decide who gets paid.
Don’t even get me started about “fair use.”