Maybe Twice in a Lifetime

I've blogged about this sort of thing before, but it looks like another politician is getting sued for using a song in a commercial without permission (I mean, do the people who are running to be legislators really have such a tenuous grasp of copyright law?). This time, it seems that Charlie Crist is being sued by David Byrne for using the Talking Heads song "Road to Nowhere" in a commercial. According to the Billboard article, none of the other members of Talking Heads are parties to the lawsuit; this seems strange because they're listed, at least on wikipedia, as being co-composers of the song with Byrne. But we'll see how this suit goes, especially since the other gossip about Crist is that the Democrats may try to push their candidate out of the Florida senate race so that Crist, a former Republican, would have a better shot at winning the general election against the ultra-conservative Marc Rubio.

Dancing Ourselves Clean

There will probably be some more thoughts from me forthcoming on the new LCD Soundsystem record This is Happening. I listened to it on crappy laptop speakers on Tuesday while cleaning up my office (I know, not the best way to really listen to music). Maybe I'll like it listening to it on headphones, which is what I'm doing now. But for now, I definitely agree with the summing up paragraph of Ben Ratliff's review of the record in the Times:

"And 'Drunk Girls,' [the first single] the most rock ’n’ roll track on the record, grates in exactly the same way as “North American Scum” did on the last album: it’s empty provocation with a wink. It isn’t a song about drunk girls, really; it appears to be a song about a guy who’s had the great idea to write a song called “Drunk Girls” but can’t convince himself that they’re any better or worse than sober girls. There’s a laugh in there, but it's a very short one."

For What It's Worth

You have to take the bad with the good, I guess. Today's another 40th anniversary.