Blogger's Corner: Kids Making Money

A declaration of "holy shit!" seems to be the standard response to this. And I agree. Listen to this vocals-only track of the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter." Listen to the part that comes around 2 minutes and 50 seconds in, when back-up singer Merry Clayton is singing. Is the hair on your arms standing up? No? Then you don't have hair on your arms. Or arms. (In which case, sorry. This is not so funny.) The Dangerous Minds website has put up all the instrumental component tracks that went into making the song. And, again, holy shit. It's awesome.

And tempting fodder, I imagine, for some enterprising young hip-hop producer who might like to sample bits from each of track and make a new song out of them. But then, if one of the Rollings Stones' lawyers found out, you'd have to pay them every cent of every dollar you ever made for the rest of your life. And also sell your house and give them the money. And probably also name your first four kids after the band members. (Or, actually, you'd probably just have to do it, like, Mick, Keith, Mick, Keith. Or maybe just Mick, Mick, Mick, Mick.) And also cut off both arms and fork them over, too. And then, you know, we're back where we started.

You'd be better off working with "Running With the Devil."

Diamond Dave seems to have a pretty good sense of humor about things. (And I will always love him. But, God, this makes me laugh so hard, still, every time I watch it.)

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“Minimalist celebrity” Vincent Kartheiser doesn’t own a car, won’t have kids, is a vegetarian and went to all that trouble to zero-scape his lawn, which sounds both difficult and clever.

He also doesn’t own a toilet:

In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

He has? Like what?

“Like, I don’t have a toilet at the moment. My house is just a wooden box. I mean I am planning to get a toilet at some point. But for now I have to go to the neighbours. I threw it all out.”

Just as those of us who haven’t bought into the Green Lie enjoy the moral authority to lecture others on the importance of central air conditioning for anyone who can pay for it themselves, the safety of making sure your loved ones drive a Hummer, refusing to recycle because recycling is stupid, and anything else that might make Iron Eyes Cody cry, Mr. Kartheiser is similarly free to credibly roam about the country talking up the other point of view.

James Cameron, not so much.

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Wednesday 1 December 2010

Kids Making Money

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