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| Body: | December 12, 2007 Dennis Kucinich and Thursday's Iowa Debate By Jean Hay Bright Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 08:15:52 AM PST I want to let you know what’s going on in Iowa. The Des Moines Register put out a press release last week announcing that six of the eight Democratic candidates for President had "accepted invitations" to debate this Thursday. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich was not among them. What the Des Moines Register press release should have said is that they offered invitations to this debate to only six of the eight nationally recognized Democratic presidential candidates and that all six who were invited accepted. * jeanhaybright's diary :: :: * The Des Moines Register is a prominent newspaper. Their editors and writers know how to turn a phrase. And the way they turned that phrase in that news article, the implication is that Dennis Kucinich did not accept the invitation they offered to him. That phrasing by the Des Moines Register implied that Kucinich declined their invitation to debate. That is not true. In phrasing its news article the way it did, the Des Moines Register did not tell voters in Iowa -- and voters across the nation, since this debate will be nationally televised -- the whole truth. Here’s the truth. Here is the arbitrary list of criteria for inclusion in this debate, and in other debates held in Iowa this fall: ( Read more... ) |
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It's a sad day for streaming video fans everywhere as news has been reported that TVLinks has been shut down and the owner, a 26yo man from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested.
Though not hosting an actual content himself, and rather merely providing links to where particular titles can be found, he was nonetheless apparently charged for the "facilitation" of copyright infringement."Sites such as TV Links contribute to and profit from copyright infringement by identifying, posting, organizing, and indexing links to infringing content found on the internet that users can then view on demand by visiting these illegal sites," said a spokesman for Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) today.
What makes the charges so odd is that he was again, only providing LINKS to pirated content, and never actually hosted anything. Can linking really be considered "facilitation?" If I link to TVLinks am I then a co-conspirator?
Ani DiFranco was an idiosyncratic folk icon from the word go. The prolific singer-songwriter -- known as much for her percussive six-string picking as her tatted skin, once-shaved head and staunch DIY ethos -- fled her native Buffalo for New York City in 1989 at the age of 18, only to release her debut album on her own Righteous Babe Records from the trunk of her car within one year. DiFranco recently released her first career-spanning retrospective, the two-disc, 36-track 'Canon,' and stopped by our New York Interface studio to play us four songs, including the new track 'Present/Infant,' and an old favorite, 'Both Hands,' which undergoes a fairly radical reinvention.
As DiFranco looks back with her career-spanning retrospective, the two-disc, 36-track 'Canon,' Spinner spoke with the woman of many crowns -- musician, poet, activist, misfit and, most recently, mother -- who, in seventeen years, has proved that she's far more than the little folksinger that could.
When compiling 'Canon,' how intense was it for you to go back through your entire catalog, given its depth and breadth?
Brutal. It was hard to choose, 'cause there's so many songs. And then it was really traumatic to just listen to old incarnations of me. We re-recorded about five songs just to have something new and different on the compilation. If I had my way, I would've re-recorded them all.
One of those five songs, 'Both Hands,' undergoes the most radical reinvention.
That was a funny story -- re-recording 'Both Hands.' You know, it's a 16-year-old song or something. We recorded it with [bassist] Todd [Sickafoose] and [drummer] Alison [Miller]. 'Canon' was all done, remastered and the graphics and the cover ... And we were going over the lyrics -- me and my manager -- and he's like, "Well, 'Both Hands' -- you sang that one really differently. Should we change the lyrics?" I was like, "What?" And he said, "Well, that verse you left out." The album was supposed to come out in a couple weeks. I was like, "Oh, no!" I forgot to sing the third verse or something. Through the miracle of technology, I went and dropped in the third verse.
Do you forget your lyrics often?
Yeah. It's kind of one of those performance skills that you learn -- how to cover your own ass when you have no idea what you're doing. [laughs]
In tandem with 'Canon,' you released 'Verses,' which is your first book of poetry and illustrations. How vulnerable did you feel given that you're a musician and lyricist first?
That's definitely where I'm hanging the insecurity. You gotta have some place to hang that very big hat. [Painting and drawing] is something I've always done, and we thought it would be cool to sort of break up the words with images and have some color going on. It is a very vulnerable thing for me to have my stuff that's just hanging around my house suddenly out there in public. And this kind of art form, I've always used just as a release, without ever having to think, "What's somebody going to say about this?" or "How are people going to react?" And then I foiled my own peace.
Describe that girl who started Righteous Babe Records at 18 years old, out of the trunk of her car.
Well, that girl got a big dose of independence and empowerment -- from mostly my mother, but both my parents. My family was kind of a mess and I was an independent kid. I grew up in Buffalo, and at 16 I told my mother I was moving to New York. Well, first I was going to Planned Parenthood and I was gonna get on the pill, and then I was moving to New York. And she was just always one to say, "OK, I trust your judgment." By the time I was 18, I started traveling around. I didn't have a car just yet, but I was taking trains and buses, and doing little gigs around New York City. Then it sort of expanded.
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