Anna Nicole Smith

As you well may know.. Anna Nicole Smith has passed away. So I was reading Metafilter and I came across this quote that stopped me in my tracks:
"She just let go and no one was holding on" - four panels

How true it is for her and so many other people.
On another note.. I told my husband and he said "Who's that?"

A Morning at Home

I highly recommend going to see A Night at the Museum. I haven't laughed that hard in quite a long time... even hubby laughed and then coughed to cover the fact that he just laughed out loud. It is a Ben Stiller movie, so he plays his typical underdog character.. but the story is so funny that I can forgive him this time.

Here's a few randomness for you:
The best place to hide money.. according to a burglar
The Gummy Bear Flickr group
An interview with June Oswald (Lee Harvey's daughter)

Your Peculiar Aristocratic Name

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Reverend Lady Suzanne the Functional of St Winifred by Winchelsea Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

via The Generator Blog

The profane game

Why don't you try your hand at The Profane Game? I did and scored 35! I'm surprised some of the words I said actually made it there and was counted.
I'd like to thank all the Marines I hung out with growing up to provide me with all this profane knowledge.

An Open Letter to TBS

We have Comcast and their HD service because we have a plasma HD TV that we're quite happy with. The problem is... we only have a few channels on this HD service because Comcast doesn't carry all those that are available. Plus, we don't have one of those Gold packages so we miss out on some. Not that it matters, as long as Ugly Betty and NCIS come in HD.. I'm pretty content.
However.. this is to TBS:

To whom it may concern:
Why do you have an HD channel when you air NOTHING that's in HD? Thanks to Comcast we're limited on what channels we have in HD and thanks to you, you're wasting one of the only channels we have.
Either air something in HD.. or get off my HD.
Thank you.

You know.. I've emailed them multiple times, and I still have no response from them.

Back to Licensing

After much consideration, we both decided to drop the sampled song off the final CD and just let it float around the Internet on its own. As of now it's being played in some clubs and there's DJs that are spinning the song while they're on a world tour. Cool huh?
So let the lawyers find us that way. It's a much better case for us that the song is floating on the Internet rather than being digitally distributed by iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc..

So this means we take the CD back to the printers for brand new covers and I have to burn brand new copies of the demo. But no complaints here.
My husband will have his first CD actually released in just a few weeks!

Music Licensing 101

My hubby who made a remix of a very well popular song needs to obtain permission in order to sell that song on a CD, website, and other forms of media. Does this mean he'll do it? No.. this means I get to do it. :) Which I don't mind because if it deals with paper pushing.. I'm SO there!

He sampled this well known song (contact me for details.. heh), and now in order to sell it through CDBaby.. I really should obtain permission. It's the only fair thing to do. So I find the publisher info on ASCAP. From there I go to their websites to see if I can electronically get permission. That's a no go. So I look up music clearance services... one in particular is ridiculously expensive and the other just doesn't list the price. And then you see something like EMG that says on their page "Use a note and go to jail". Well fuck me.
I'm just going to do it my own self. I know I can. I can be all professional and stuff. *snort*
But on my little travels of finding out how to go abouts on getting the "ok" from the head honchos.. I run across this poor guy. All he wanted was to license some time of a few movies for his home project.. HOME, as in no audience but him and his family.

Anyways.. I'll keep my events updated. This should be fun. :)