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"Hurry Down Doomsday" - Elvis Costello's sci-fi country groovefest
The surrealistic twangy throb of this song somehow puts me in mind of country music of some old order, but damned if I can find anything specific to really pin it on. Extremely overeducated rockabilly, perhaps.

in Music — by Al Barger — on May 22, 2003
Bernie Taupin's birthday
As the lyricist for all of Elton John's best material, he's one of the most successful pop songwriters of all time. For that high level of success, he gets very little credit.

in Music — by Al Barger — on May 22, 2003
Live - Birds Of Pray

in Music — by Tom Johnson — on May 22, 2003
The Bad Plus and Lizz Wright Live on the Radio Tonight

in Music — by Eric Olsen — on May 22, 2003
Just for Al Barger...

in Music — by Amblongus — on May 22, 2003
"Big Boy" - Yet Another Jacko Controversy

in Music — by Eric Olsen — on May 22, 2003
Blur, Think Tank
The boys in Blur are back - sort of. . .

in Music — by Bill Sherman — on May 22, 2003
The Agony Scene e-Card
A mini-video of still images of the band interspersed with photoshopped tricks and low-bitrate streaming metalcore MP3's.

in Music — by Seth Werkheiser — on May 22, 2003
Boulder Radio

in Music — by Chris Cotner — on May 22, 2003
The Nexx big thing?

in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 22, 2003
Poetic Justice?

in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 22, 2003
Rain isn't always bad

in Music — by Marty Dodge — on May 22, 2003

Elvis Costello gets stupid
"We all live in fairly dangerous times in terms of freedom of speech and freedom of expression." Bullshit, Elvis. What danger is this? Has Sean Penn even been given a traffic ticket for trafficking in stupid ass useful idiocy?

in Politics — by Al Barger — on May 22, 2003
"Hey Bill, maybe this explains a few things"
New studies show FCC travel was paid for by the industry they're supposed to be regulating.

in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on May 22, 2003
"Let's debate this out in the open, take polls, get the president on the record and turn up the heat"

in Politics — by Eric Olsen — on May 22, 2003

High Noon
The suspense and moral elements of this tale have long overshadowed Gary Cooper's portrayal of a just man abandoned by cowards.

in Video — by Frank Giovinazzi — on May 22, 2003
American Idol 2 - The Finals
The Raging Critic tackles the AI2 Finals extravaganza.

in Video — by The Raging Critic — on May 22, 2003

Caveat Emptor
But let's give the fine people at No-Contact Jackets a break. After all, they're in the business of selling electric shock jackets to protect women from the numberless hordes, not statistics, even if one of them does go to MIT.

in Culture — by Bigwig — on May 22, 2003