I heard about this band from Kiefer Sutherland. We’re tight.

http://www.myspace.com/billyboyonpoison

Ya’ll heard about this?  Kevin mentioned that NPR ran a story about the most popular drum sample, but all I could find was this post.  Its kinda long but interesting.  The first ten minutes explain how a 6 second drum “break” from ’69 was so widely used in the age of sampling while the rest makes a good argument against current copyright law.

I’ve always enjoyed Tom Petty’s stance on infringement.  From an interview in Rolling Stone (which I also heard about from Kevin): “…I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock & roll songs sound alike. Ask Chuck Berry. The Strokes took “American Girl” [for their song “Last Nite”], and I saw an interview with them where they actually admitted it. That made me laugh out loud. I was like, “OK, good for you.” It doesn’t bother me.”

Couldn’t tell you why Nuns having fun entertains me, but it does. Via NotCot.org

ok, i know that was totally unnecessary — sorry — let’s move on.  tommy can no longer go on the bruce at work (however he still spends a large portion of the day looking at those damn lol cats), so he asked me to share this gem with you all:

http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/

I don’t know where I could check this, but apparently April is National Grilled Cheese Month.  Via Pop Candy, a website called Serious Eats has some awesome ideas for celebration of this.  This post is mostly for Joan, also known as the Martha Stewart of Grilled Cheese; I hope that the Travers house can soon try some new grilled cheese creations.  Maybe something with white truffle, honey and comté?