[mythtv-users] It's over, the RIAA is toast

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Josh White wrote:

> Or that the contracts were not "modern day", perhaps signed back in
> the 17th century?
>
> To be honest I'm a bit vague on who this Kurt fellow is or was, I take
> it he has something to do with CL?
>
> But I'm not really up on "modern" music. I recently got dragged to a
> "Heavy Metal Fest". I can pretty safely say that I was the only one
> there who used to be a patron of the Metropolitan Opera.
>
> Fortunately I brought along my shooting ear muffs :-)
>
> So I'm not sure how serious you are, but I'm curious, because you  
> whipped out the Courtney Love:
>
> How do you know who Courtney Love is?  I guess she's been in the  
> news for being a deadbeat mother and she was in a couple of movies  
> (like The People vs Larry Flint, where she basically plays herself)  
> and she was in a band called "Hole" but I doubt you knew that if you  
> don't know who Kurt Cobain is.

I read the quote I cited on some site that was berating the RIAA.

>
>
> Let me put it this way: if there were no Kurt Cobain, you'd never  
> have heard of Courtney Love (and if you really don't know, Kurt  
> Cobain was in a little band called "Nirvana" that was all kinds of  
> famous in the early 1990's and then he shot himself in 2004).   
> Courtney Love was married to Kurt Cobain, and she now uses his  
> fortune to live like a retard as she has for the last 14+ years.

Now that I think about it I believe I did hear something about his  
suicide, as I was working in the TV news business, but the name really  
didn't mean anything to me.

>
> Ironically, as I was typing this, I just happened to hear a cover of  
> "Heart Shaped Box" (a Nirvana song) on Bands Under the Radar (a free  
> music podcast I just stumbled across).


Well I'm listening to Wagner at the moment. Probably the most-heard  
composition by him as far as the general public is concerned would be  
the Wedding March from Lohengrin, or perhaps the "Ride of the  
Valkyries".

But this is not a music appreciation list :-)

beww