IconoclasT wrote:
] This kind of reminds me of that old Dire Straits tune.. Money
] for Nothing (but no chicks for free...)
]
] He is ''Gentleman'' Jim Reeves, the crooner with the velvet
] voice who transcended his country music roots and continues to
] captivate fans worldwide, almost 40 years after dying in a
] plane crash. It is a lasting popularity that has turned
] Reeves — who helped launch the legendary ''Nashville Sound''
] with such hits as Four Walls, He'll Have to Go and Welcome to
] My World — into a substantial revenue generator to the tune of
] at least $400,000 per year, according to royalty statements
] made available to The Tennessean.

Yea - $400K a year for a corpse aint bad.

But what about that truck driver from Tupelo Mississippi? Died from a drug overdose in the late 70's... I think his name was Presley or something like that.

Last I heard, "The King" was raking in profits in the several HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS today - and he's making several times more today than he ever made while he was alive!

Similar story for Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Curt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Sid Vicous, ETC ETC ETC... Just about any famous recording artist that dies "before their time" ironically makes more money when they are dead.

Strange world we live in.

LB

RE: Can someone dead 40 years make $400,000 / yr?

New Life Lodge
Alumni Association
P.O. Box 430
Burns, TN 37029

To Whom It May Concern,

Please accept this donation offered in memory of our friend Brad Blines. Brad was a part of our online community, called MemeStreams. One of the features of this community is that it tracks the popularity of the posts members make to it. Out of some 800 members, there are only three people in the community who have a higher popularity score then Brad, and they are the people who created the software the community runs on. This fact should illustrate the significant impact that Brad has had on our lives. We owe many smiles and laughs to his posts and comments over the past year. His presence will be missed by all of us.

Sincerely,
Tom & Marie Cross

*****************
WELL said Tom. I am sure Brads NON-Memestreams family and friends will be touched by your words.

Its true - only the good die young. RIP Brad.

LB

For CrankyMessiah...

It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I post that my good friend, Brad Blines, died on Thursday morning of a heroin overdose. Folks on memestreams will know him as crankymessiah. People from the 'scene' in Nashville will remember him from the days of Dragon Park, countless concerts and shows, and Predators games.

Brad was one of the lights of my life. We shared the same giddy excitement over music, film, and creativity that few people can understand. We had that kind of brotherly relationship where you don't really have to say anything to hear the other person. I hope that I will be able to still hear his infectious laugh in my head for the rest of my life.

Goodbye my friend.

Brad Michael BLINES
Nashville, TN
Age 35
January 8, 2003
January 8, 2003. Survived by parents, Michael and Diana Blines; sister, Kristin (Richard) Vik; grandmothers, Bonnie (Lloyd) Holt, Ruth Allen; nephews, Ethan Richard Vik, Brennan Michael Vik. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home with Bro. Doug Varnado officiating. Pallbearers will be Chris Scheele, Richard Vik, Michael Dodson, Rich Husband, Jim Folger, Ernie Simon. The Interment will follow at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the New Life Lodge. Visitation will be Friday 5-9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. until service at HARPETH HILLS FUNERAL HOME, 9090 Hwy. 100, 615-646-9292

I am sad, and unhappy...

The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March.

US Withdraws Weapons Hunters From Iraq

] Intel chief executive Craig Barrett said the United
] States "now has to compete for every job going forward.
] That has not been on the table before. It had been
] assumed we had a lock on white-collar jobs and high-tech
] jobs. That is no longer the case."

They are smarter. They are hungrier. They have a better work ethic. Their dollars go futher, and they are used to having less stuff. Their labor regulations are looser. This isn't about tech jobs, this is about service/knowledge jobs. This is only the beginning. American dominance is over. There are too many skilled people, no one knows how to utilize all of them, and you are far from the most attractive of them. Ever wanted to know what life was like in the 30s? You will.

Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas (TechNews.com)

Rather funny.. :)

and true.

Crash Different

] President Bush plans a major policy speech next week in
] which he'll promote a new space initiative, senior
] administration officials said Thursday.
]
] Bush will lay out his "vision for expanding the space
] program," which is expected to include long-term moves
] for manned missions to the moon and an eventual manned
] mission to Mars, an official said. NASA's target for a
] moon mission is 2018.

WOW! The Bush Administration is finally going to do something I AGREE with! (Though I still would vote for Daffy Duck before I'd ever vote W)

But the time table for a return to the moon - 2018 - is rediculous IMO. We should be back on the moon within a decade (did it before) and shooting for Mars within 20 years.

Then again, thats probably just the ole' biological clock reminding me that I'll be 50 in 2018 - almost a half century since "One small step for man..." I'd really like people to be on mars before I visit my friendly neighborhood undertaker.

LB

Bush to seek manned flights to moon, Mars

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)

An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.

The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.

Acid trip 1

This is fun to watch, and doesn't take up *too* much bandwidth. It also lets you watch the NASA side of the broadcast as they're answering questions from foreign interviewers. Like I watched one segment, where I didn't get to hear the questions that were being asked, but did watch the NASA scientist reply to their questions in Spanish!

Today they're talking about how they're going to name the Mars Rover's landing site after the astronauts who died in the shuttle disaster: "Columbia Memorial Station".

Live stream from NASA TV

] Check the year-end reports from the various sectors of
] the entertainment industry, and it's clear that DVD
] stands alone as an unqualified sensation. It's such a
] success that it might even be eclipsing - and
] cutting into - other leisure pursuits.
]
] Each DVD amounts to a consumer devoting money and time to
] watching a movie at home, sometimes in lieu of going to a
] theater or watching TV or listening to a CD.

Are you listening to this RIAA? Its *NOT* only peer2peer trading that is responsible for your sagging sales. There are a number of factors, and probably the biggest is that other entertainment avenues are taking a larger slice of the pie.

If you'd listen, you'd hear consumers voting (with their cash) that other entertainment avenues currently represent a better value for the money then a mediocre CD with 2 good tracks.

LB

DVD's success steals the show