Johnny Coli

You've got a pretty big a$$ for a white chick. I call that one "The ice breaker."

That was actually pretty clever, and funny. It's analogous to saying it's pretty dumb for guys to brag about how many times they've had sex, and how long their johnsons are. I don't know if you intentionally meant it that way, but it was pretty insightful. Seriously, Bravo. This is a good example of posting less, and making a good point.

50 questions? I'll take the F. Let's just say I didn't get any right and call it a day.

So we should sit back and wait for them to get their crap together? Why? None of you advocate doing that for any other business. If the business plan doesn't work, why should the consumer care? And at the same time, the major labels and their dishonesty is screwing alot of deserving artists out of the money they deserve. Most don't see any money from these sales. The major labels would have you believe that P2P is resulting in all these starving artists, when in reality, they were starving before P2P. I'm not advocating stealing music. That is NOT my point. I don't do it, and most people I know don't do it because there is plenty out there for free that is legal, and quite frankly, I'm not ever going to be mainstream or into mainstream music. My point is that the only people getting screwed here are the major labels and maybe a few super-acts. Adapt or die. That's basic business, is it not?

Wasn't Bagna Stage Kitchen? Didn't he lock a kid in the pot cage and throw boiling water at him? Chef Hessner threw a frozen duck at my head, once. Good times at the CIA...good times.

Chef, you went to CIA, so you probably did this too. When we were in Pantry Kitchen, the kid on the omelette station would get his a$$ kicked with orders because everyone wanted an omelette that came through the line. You got to pick what kind of omelette you were going to serve if you were on that station. The first couple kids to man that station would do something stupid, like pick a four-cheese omelette, or try to kiss a$$ and put something fancy together to impress the instructor. After seeing those guys get buried, our group started to put really horrible sounding omelettes on the board...tuna and sundried tomato, head cheese and olives, etc. It made for a pretty easy shift. Rettata would make for a pretty easy shift as a special. You'd probably lose you job, but it would be a pretty easy last shift.

Fascinating.

Well done, sir. Well done.

I swear, man, if there wasn't the physical and digital evidence out there that proved he actually existed, you would think he was a fabrication of someone's twisted, yet brilliant, imagination. Like I said before, Brandon, you are either the cartoon you portray yourself to be, or you are a comic genius.

There's a ton of free (and legal) music out there that you don't have to pay for if you think it sucks. I grab tons of stuff off the internet, and if I like it , I go out and buy it and other stuff by the band. It's all digital. It doesn't take up space. If I don't like it...blip...gone.

You're an enigma to me, William. On one level, you're against movie companies telling you what is good and total crap, yet you're willing to grab your ankles for corporate rock. I am baffled, sir. Baffled.

Did he grab the iPod in the chaos? That's how I got mine.

Damn straight, brother! Throw off the shackles of corporate rock radio and strap on a pair of headphones so you can crank up that mp3 player, ignore the world, and get hit by a car when your not looking.

iTunes just started linking to free podcasts today. Most were already out there, but you had to look for them. Now everyone that has an iPod or uses iTunes will have access to free music. The corporate rock giants most likely won't allow mainstream music to get out there for free, but a sh-tload of independent labels and bands will now get max exposure. Why, because it's legal and free. The end of the stranglehold on music by corporate rock is coming to a close.

Yet people would still pay ticketmaster $85 bucks to see them, and some people would buy scalped tickets for $200 to get 10 rows back, center. Throw me a pick...throw me a pick...he looked at me.

It's what I'm listening to right now...shirtless in a hot, sweaty apartment...eating pretzel rods and drinking tepid beer...stabbing at the keyboard, my only tangible friend.

They're better tippers, and they like top-shelf liquor.

School's out! Woo Hoo. No social studies or math for ten whole weeks! Woo Hoo!

John Clayton is scum. Total scum.

He's a pedophile, though. Wouldn't seem right.

Isn't Putin's cousin a referee in the NFL? We all know where this is headed.

Teenage Lobotomy is another good one. The whole crowd screaming "La-Bah-Toh-Mee" at the same time while Tommy pounds on the toms and snare. Chilling. I'd vote for White Riot by the Clash to be played every time the flakes started to fall, too.

Robert Kraft is scum. Total scum.

That was classic. I wonder what happened to that dude. That was his only post. What the hell is wrong with Shout, anyway?

What gave it away? I don't use the file-sharing stuff. There is plenty of what I like out there for free. I'm sure some would use that argument who do use those programs, but that's only because they know what they are doing is technically illegal. Most aren't using it to discover new bands anyway, they are using it to get for free what they just heard on corporate stooge radio or MTV. I'm going to completely dissagree with you here, GG. I think with portable music devices (iPod, Zen, Dell, etc) people have even more time to listen to music (everyone in my lab wears them all day long, everyone on the subway has them on, people are listening to downloaded stuff during their commutes). With the advent of podcasts and legitimate free mp3 sites there is the potential to listen to a hell of a lot more interesting stuff than what gets shoved down people's throats by corporate radio and MTV (assisted by big industry record labels). There is no reason to leave it in the hands of A&R clowns, and I really don't think people would miss them at all. I know there always has been, and always will be manufactured acts. What bothers me is the sheer numbers of what could be the same manufactured acts out there, dwarfing the number of "real" acts, as you put it. These people are talentless mannequins packaged for people who don't know any better (through no fault of their own...the saturation of the market with this stuff is sure to find some ears, and the strong-arm tactics utilized by the record companies in getting airplay for them ensures they will get heard several times an hour on multiple stations). As I stated previously, the only people that I feel are getting DIRECTLY hurt by illegal file sharing are the record companies. I don't really think the artists, the artists that actually can write and play music, will care if the large record companies take a beating.