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As If the Music Wasn’t Bad Enough in this Country, the Live Nation, Tickemaster merger has been approved. I love how rock n roll used to be about sticking to The Man. Now The Man is sitting next to you at every concert, sold you your tickets, over-priced beer, merchandise, and even charged you $20 for parking. I guess that I shouldn’t say that they kill art though, but they do however, make it blatantly easy to see what is and isn’t art in this day and age.

Joel Rose’s Story on NPR - Audio Story Posted as Well

So, I heard this story on NPR on the other day and it really made me reconsider where I store some of my documents and files. It turns out that I have no legal leverage, let a lone right to anything that I store on various email or document storage sites.

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Upon returning from my recent trip to Italy, I was welcomed home by a horrifying NPR report. Officials at the La Scala Opera House in Milan Italy announced that composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera based on Gore’s overated film An Inconvenient Truth for the 2011 season. First of all, a documentary as an opera…thrilling. Second, such a narrow approach to one small facet of the larger problems that humanity is faced with is such a trivial avenue to pursue. (See Good Nonsense for more.) Thirdly, Verdi, Puccini, Catalani, Gore…WTF?!?!? (Or maybe he would be the librettist? Would they use text from the script…or maybe statistics set to music…well Glass did something distantly related to this…) Don’t get me wrong, global warming is serious issue that every human being has a responsibility, yes even Christians, to address and take action individually. However, when such a monumental and historically iconic to engage in blatant support of propaganda and then labeling it as art, makes me ask what has happened to art. I guess I just think that art shouldn’t reflect culture if it forces you to become a epic tool box.