Prince performing Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella ‘08

Prince recently played a cover of the Radiohead song “Creep” at the huge concert festival “Coachella.” Since Radiohead won’t play the song anymore, it’s good to see that somebody is still playing the song as it’s such a great one. Well… after the concert Prince talks to his people and starts having them take the video off the internet. Flagging it as copyrighted by the owners of the content.

The problem with this, is that Radiohead owns the song since they wrote it, even though Prince performed it. Radiohead’s lead singer Tom Yorke wants to see the video and he wants the video to be spread around the internet. So in a funny, or forward thinking artist, twist Radiohead is telling Prince’s people to stop blocking the video and to let it live online and let people see it.

Funny that the person who owns the copyright wants it distributed, and that the person who doesn’t have the rights to pull it off the series of tubes that is the internet is trying to get it yanked.

You can’t find the videon on YouTube, but there are a few versions floating around. Hopefully the video embedded above will continue to work.

Yahoo News Story

Weezer’s new video “Pork and Beans”

Leave it to Weezer to put together the king of all viral music videos. They took the internets biggest viral videos, added their song and now they have their own viral video. I love that they how they have K-Fed, Miss Teen South Carolina, the Numa Numa guy, changing the words and actions to fit this video. Makes it even better.

[Update] Just found a montage of all of the videos referenced in the video, for those of you not up on your viral videos. Couldn’t embed it, so head over to Valleywag if you want to see it.

http://valleywag.com/393048/weezers-pork-and-beans-deconstructed

The main chorus to the song states:

Love me or hate me that is the question.  If you love me then funk you.  If you hate me then [something that is similar to funk] you.

Wow, I guess KOMO really doesn’t like people who don’t listen to their station. 

What if I could get the news on my iPod each morning before I wanted to run.  What if I could get the right ammount of information on there, so that I don’t have to miss out on the last 10 minutes of the news when I get home and want to get ready.  Here’s the idea:

You create a network of news tidbits.  You break the news down into as small as segments as you can ie, news about each different sports team is broken down into 30 second clips and therefore rather than having to listen to 2 minutes worth of information I don’t care about, I just choose which teams or sports I want to hear about.  The same can be done with weather, local news, world news, business news, really anything.  The information is then broken down into very specific 15 second- to 1 minute clips and you select which items you want downloaded, and how long you want the podcast to be.  The program then selects the items you want and creates a news station that is just for you and only has the news you want on it. 

Each morning the podcast is automatically downloaded to your iPod and all you have to do is grab your iPod and run! 

Who knows you could even include some encouragement on there from sponsored partners.  Also, I bet you could play ads to help with the revenue.  People would put up with some ads, just as long as it wasn’t more than say 30 seconds per 10 minutes or so.  Plus the web portal where you select your news can have ads.  Maybe you could charge a small fee as well.  The details can be worked out later.  For now,  who wants to help me build this? :)

What do you think, is it weird that Starbucks, a giant corporation is selling a Grateful Dead album?

[Sidenote: I bet I have motivated at least one person to go down to Starbucks and buy the album as soon as they read this post.  Starbucks, you're welcome.]