Previously Unreleased Bill Hicks Album to Accompany Reissued Catalog

Previously Unreleased Bill Hicks Album to Accompany Reissued Catalog



http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/previously-unreleased-bill-hicks-album-to-accompany-reissued-catalog-20150312

The entire audio and video works of controversial late comedian Bill Hicks, whose darkly acerbic wit and socially conscious observations helped define Generation X comedy in the Nineties, will be reissued beginning next month. In partnership with his estate, the production company Comedy Dynamics will make all of Hicks' albums and video releases available to digital and VOD retailers on April 28th. Concurrently with the re-release of Hicks' albums, SiriusXM will play his catalog on its Raw Dog channel.

A DVD box set of his video works will come out on August 18th, and an album of previously unreleased Hicks audio is slated for October 27th.

In addition to the reissues and new releases, a Hicks special is set to air in movie theaters for one night. Comedy Dynamics Presents: Bill Hicks, which comprises footage from his Relentless DVD (filmed at the Montreal International Comedy Festival in 1991) and never-before-seen footage, will play in select theaters on April 27th. Tickets go on sale March 27th via Fathom Events.

"After many months of hard work and dedication, we couldn't be more humbled to assume control of the Bill Hicks catalog," Comedy Dynamics President of Production Brian Volk-Weiss said in a statement. "Bill Hicks is one of the most important stand-up comedians to have walked this planet. The duty to expose him to a new generation of comedy fans is a true honor, we'll do him proud."

Slipknot's Thompson brothers make the Gallagher bros' spats in Oasis look pretty effin lightweight.

Slipknot Guitarist Survives Knife Fight With Brother
Both men arrive at hospital in separate ambulances
By Kory Grow March 12, 2015



Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson survived a potentially deadly knife fight with his brother Andrew on Wednesday. The incident occurred at 4 a.m. in the front yard of a residence in Clive, Iowa, where police found both brothers, reportedly drunk, showing non-life-threatening stab wounds; authorities said the guitarist sustained one in the back of his head. Both were taken to hospitals in separate ambulances, according to The Des Moines Register.

"Neither individual was very cooperative," Clive Police Chief Michael Venema told the New York Daily News. "Our detectives will be following up as soon as their medical situation allows us."

Police had responded to a call from inside the home, where they say they believe the fight started. The guitarist, 41, has no prior criminal record in Iowa. His brother, 35, was once arrested for public intoxication.

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor tweeted that he'd heard his bandmate was "OK." "We're sending him all your thoughts," the singer wrote. "Thank you for that."

Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye's family over Blurred Lines

Florida Apartment Complex Threatens Tenants With $10,000 Fine For Bad Reviews Online

Florida Apartment Complex Threatens Tenants With $10,000 Fine For Bad Reviews Online

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/windermere-cay-yelp-review-10k-fine_n_6844592.html

A Florida apartment complex is under fire after management forced new tenants to sign a "social media addendum" that threatened a fine of $10,000 if they gave the place a bad review online, Ars Technica reports. The addendum, which went viral Tuesday after the Windermere Cay complex in Winter Garden started handing it out, also forces tenants to sign away their rights to any photos, reviews or other material about the complex posted online:



“Applicant will refrain from directly or indirectly publishing or airing negative commentary regarding the Unit, Owner, property or the apartments,” the addendum reads. “This means that Applicant shall not post negative commentary or reviews on Yelp!, Apartment Ratings, Facebook, or any other website or Internet-based publication or blog."

Before Tuesday, few people had reviewed Windermere Cay. By the end of the day, however, a lot of people had reviewed the place. Things are not going well for the apartment complex online.

Chris Christie sells out New Jersey taxpayers ("dirty deeds, done dirt cheap")

Let's celebrate DAVID GILMOUR'S 69th birthday with a Floydgasm. Post your favorite tunes here.

One from my Top 10..."Comfortably Numb" from "Pulse."

Rolling Stone: Go Ahead and Call Bill O'Reilly What He Is: A Pathological Liar

Go Ahead and Call Bill O'Reilly What He Is: A Pathological Liar

The Fox News mouthpiece leapt on Brian Williams with a predatory recognition of common weakness

By Jeb Lund March 5, 2015

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/go-ahead-and-call-bill-oreilly-what-he-is-a-pathological-liar-20150305



A good rule of callout culture is to never target someone for the same things you do. No adulterer is more insufferable, after all, than the fire-and-brimstone minister. But when NBC anchor Brian Williams was exposed for fabricating stories of journalistic heroism, poor Bill O'Reilly just couldn't help himself. There was Williams, that prick, garnering widespread acclaim for the kind of stories Bill had already been making up for years.

A real American doesn't tolerate that kind of crap, and Bill O'Reilly is a real American. He has evolved into a post-fact reality, nightly defending a singular nation of fear and confabulation against all enemies foreign and domestic. He is a fiction more palpable than himself, and he can't stop, because it's all he has.

Some of the story is probably familiar to you. O'Reilly has lied high and low during his nearly 19 years at Fox News, but the latest round of scrutiny about his stories began with an article in The Nation questioning whether O'Reilly's reporting aided in covering up a massacre in El Salvador in 1982. Instead of primarily focusing on whether O'Reilly acted as a stooge for murderous conservative policy 14 years before his Fox gig, the media instead latched onto O'Reilly's claims that he'd reported from a leveled town where no one was left alive or dead, when in fact The Nation's article included O'Reilly's CBS footage of a very much not-leveled town with at eight people walking around in the background of his shots.

That article and O'Reilly's pummeling Brian Williams inspired Mother Jones' David Corn and Daniel Schulman to look closely at O'Reilly's other tales of hazardous, daring reportage, including his claims to have been in a "war zone" during the Falklands War. Despite O'Reilly's calling Corn a "despicable guttersnipe" and attempting to handwave away the accusations as a liberal hit job, Corn and Shulman's charges have stuck. The nearest O'Reilly — or any other American reporter — got to the war zone was 1,200 miles, and his fallback assertion that protests he "alone" covered in Buenos Aires constituted one have been debunked multiple times over by O'Reilly's former colleagues. Worse, O'Reilly's own footage contradicts his story that he had a gun pulled on him.

Would appreciate your feedback RE: one of the worst breaches of ethics I've seen in my profession.

Some of you know me, some of you don't. I used to be "Amerigo Vespucci" on DU until my computer died in October 2013 and I lost my User ID / PW (and didn't remember the email I used to sign up), so I became Miles Archer. I'm a Web Designer.

A couple of days ago I was using Google to come up with a prospect list for sales calls. The concept was simple...the vast majority of Web Surfers do NOT click past page one of Google's search results, so I started making my list on page 6. These are sites that dropped the ball on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or haven't updated their content in a long time.

Also, Google is going to start penalizing sites that are not mobile friendly. They have an online tool that you can use that delivers a "report card."

So here's the point.

I found three dental offices in my town with the exact same Website.

The three Websites are virtually identical other than the names of personnel, phone numbers, and addresses.

Now, if the three practices were owned by the same individual, it would would not be a matter of ethics. One of my dental clients is in the practice with his wife, and he requested two identical sites...one with her domain, one with his.

But this is a "Web Designer" who used one GoDaddy template three times for three different clients and sold each of them identical content, and each site's home page has the same stock photo woman with the hideous neon death grin as its centerpiece.

I've done this long enough (since 2001) to know that one, two, or all three of the practices may say "SO WHAT?" when I contact them.

They've been ripped off, though, and this kills their online credibility.

Obviously I am calling to pitch my doing sites for them, but I'm also willing to alert them to the fact that an unscrupulous individual took their money and ran.

I plan to keep the calls simple and brief and do not intent to inject drama or finger-pointing...just stating the facts, "Two other practices in town have sites identical to yours," and then I will see if a broader conversation can take place.

Your thoughts?

If you were one of the dental offices in question, would you appreciate the call, or consider it one more annoyance from a salesman?

CAIN! Prison Proves Being Gay Is a Choice, Says GOP Pres Hopeful Ben Carson

I'll bet Spock knew how many holes it took to fill the Albert Hall, and a bunch of other cool shit.

Internet has been down at the house and I have been going to the Library for WiFi, so news of Leonard's passing came to me a bit late. No TV either, just pretty much shut off from anything resembling "news."

What an original, what an icon. Icons aren't supposed to die, but somehow they do, reminding us of our own mortality.



R.I.P., Spock.