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The Daily Loper – December 4, 2007

December 4, 2007 by Lopy

RoboSanta & The Hypnotic Cleavage of Doom Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • RIP Facebook?
    Well that didn’t take long.
  • My Year Of Flops Case File #90: Glitter
    Worth the click for the bit where Salman Rushdie is a Mariah Carey fan. Also: "hypnotic cleavage of doom."
  • Microsoft’s sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children
    Then he promises to bring them a Zune for Christmas.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone’s List

December 4, 2007 by Jim Connelly

Yesterday, Rolling Stone online put together a list of what they called “The Fifty Best Songs Over Seven Minutes Long.” Not so much. Sure, there were some all-time great songs on that list, but other songs weren’t even the best long song by the particular artist, much less on a 50 best ever list.

So, I figured that I’d do my own. Thanks to the magic of an iTunes playlist sort, it didn’t take very long to put together. Here are my rules: because some artists (Neil Young, Velvet Underground) work better with long songs, I figured that it was OK to have multiple songs by individual artists. I did, however, discount anything that had never been commercially released, which wiped out a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs.

Like Rolling Stone’s list, this is alphabetical by artist.

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Filed Under: Music

The Daily Loper – December 3, 2007

December 3, 2007 by Lopy

Runnin’ Down a Dream Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • Tom Petty to play Super Bowl
    Hey, awesome! This almost makes up for Ryan Seacrest.
  • NBC content gets removed from iTunes
    Oh, NBC, are you really this lame? Of course you are. Nothing says "good management" like destroying a consistent, growing revenue stream in the middle of a crisis.
  • Sicha, Gould Out At Gawker
    At least according to a recent "Help Wanted" ad…
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

All My ‘Lopers

December 3, 2007 by Kassia Krozser

I’m a sucker for serialized content. Since I was kid, I have sought out continuing story lines. Naturally, this lead to a youth wasted watching soap operas — though I never went there, it strikes me that at one point in my history, the ultimate girl youth rebellion was to choose All My Children over your mother’s Days Of Our Lives. Soap operas offered a glimpse into a glamorous, dangerous world that contrasted sharply with daily reality.

There is much to be said for the power of escapism and even the skeptics find themselves entrenched in the lives of the Rachel and Julie and Trish and David and Raven and Cash and all the other characters. The writers of soap operas are masters at creating new scenarios, introducing new drama, while making sure that the casual viewer is able to catch up with the story within moments. If you’re away for years, sure, there will be some disorientation, but not enough to make you throw up your hands and say, “That’s it! I’m never watching Young and the Restless again.”
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Filed Under: Mediacratic, Television, Writers Strike

The (Bi-)Weekly ‘Loper – December 1, 2007

December 2, 2007 by Jim Connelly

While you were watching your favorite TV shows begin to disappear slowly into the greedy maw of the networks, here’s what we were looking at:

  • Amazon’s Kindle: The Price of Free EVDO and Proprietary DRM – There are some good things about Kindle, of course, but those are all outweighed by the price and the DRM-influenced limitations. Too bad.
  • Remaster and Servant (On Not Quite Seeing Star Trek: The Menagerie in the Theater) – For a longtime Trekker, the experience was somewhat underwhelming.
  • CBS: Down The Rabbit Hole Without A Parachute – We all know that the Networks are lying when they say that they don’t have any idea about whether they are going to make money from the internet. It’s certainly sad, however, when they are incompetent in the execution.
  • Too Much Music, Too Little Time – Whine, whine, whine.
  • Why The Replacements Saved My Life – You be me for awhile . . .

Filed Under: Hot Topics

The Daily Loper – December 1, 2007

December 1, 2007 by Lopy

Not a Folksinger Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • A Tipping Point For MP3s
    For some of us the tipping point came 10 years ago. Regardless, anything that gets the major labels on board with DRM-free music is fine by us.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

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  • Certain Songs #2541: Sufjan Stevens – “Too Much”
  • Certain Songs #2540: Sufjan Stevens – “Djohariah”
  • Certain Songs #2539: Sufjan Stevens – “Heirloom”
  • Certain Songs #2538: Sufjan Stevens – “Casimir Pulaski Day”

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