Last thought (because you’re bored enough to have read this far through my drivel): I’ve often seen reprints of written words be permitted as long as the original published author/work is credited (although usually with some caveat like that someone isn’t gaining financially from their sale/distribution). Would the fines have been avoided if the band had prefaced songs with the original artists’ name? I’m curious if this is about “giving credit where credit is due” or simple corporate greed.

How did I get that far into the show? Tivo and liberal use of the fast forward button. Maude, even Alanis Morrisette blew on that craptacular.

Oh! And who dressed Alec Baldwin. I still think he’s hotness in his current puffy incarnation, but he had one button done on his jacket, and his gut was hanging out, then he unbuttoned it, and I sighed with relief, then he rebuttoned it!

And what the hell was that Kathy Griffin thing? Seriously, what!?

Someone give Cher a new variety hour so she can cleanse our brains.

I also own a copy of Liza with a Z, and sometimes just watch it with the commentary on. I think that makes me pretty damn gay.

And yes, Rosie made it it Liza with a Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z. Coincidentally, I’m seeing Liza in NYC on Sunday, which possibly makes me too gay to function.

For one, Rosie is much better appreciated as a fat, ugly, (not to mention earth-shatteringly stupid - have you SEEN her blog??) lesbian when the insults are coming from someone else. I like her much more when she doesn’t actually have to be experienced.

Second of all, while Liza was to-par fantastic on her own, once Rosie chimed in with her miserable excuse for a singing voice, it was all over. I didn’t realize that Rosie negative energy was so powerful that she actually turned Liza’s performance quality into the negative.

Needless to say, shortly into the program, I exorcised the Tele-Demon of Rosie with rapid-action channel changing. My entertainment system deserves a written apology for tolerating this mega-twat for the few minutes she was visiting my living room.

Check out this article, which talks about a Florida couple that got “three or four phone calls a day” from different people claiming to represent different songs.

Although I guess it could be worse. Look what’s happening in the UK.

I think it should apply to radio play and recorded performances and stuff though.

That’s a load of crap, that a band can’t play a few covers in a little pub. Gimme a break. I goes against the minstrel spirit of musicians. It’s not like the pub or the band is making a ton of money.

I believe in keeping old songs alive by playing them to newer generations. It’s not cool to have Merle Haggard’s people come after me for playing ‘Working Man’s Blues” though is it?

ASCAP is a racket. Sure, the musicians deserve money, but for how long? Some guy who wrote a song in the 50’s shouldn’t be getting money off that song 50 years later. It prevents him from working. It’s pure laziness. Write a hit song and never have to work again. Copyright law in this country is screwed up.

If the South wants to secede again, I say fine — on one condition:
They have to become part of Mexico.