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New Jersey vs. Ticketmaster
Attorney General Announces Settlement with Ticketmaster on Sale of Springsteen Tickets: Tickets will be made available for thousands of consumers shut out by Ticketmaster and steered to a more expensive ticket re-sale website The lessons: ALWAYS COMPLAIN IN WRITING, and that doesn’t mean commenting on a blog somewhere. I realize that is better directed at [...]
we are one
18 January, 2009
The last time I heard Fanfare for the Common Man, I was closing down Shea Stadium. Today, it was fitting and appropriate and elegant to open this performance in tribute and in celebration of the incoming administration. Fanfare for the Common Man is perfect because it is dramatic and brief and clears the palate, it sets the tone, it invokes solemnity, it invokes purpose.
he finally figured out what house he wanted to build
I know I made fun of Mr. S. relentlessly during the end of the tour about the “building a house” shtick, which never made any sense, never seemed to go anywhere, and had crew members rolling their eyes every time he went into it. Yesterday, however, I think he finally figured it out: They will, [...]
kim thayil
The recent Sub Pop 20 festivities got me into a conversation with a friend about Kim Thayil.
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