I’ll admit, I’m a tech geek.  I like to have the latest and greatest.  Sometimes I have a real defendable reason, but a lot of the time, it’s just because it’s nice to have a new piece of Shiny.  The Onion takes the piss out of all of us, and the companies that cater to us, with this latest blurb:

I think most of we musicians are trying to do this, aren’t we?  And sadly, we don’t have the financial resources or built-in fan base of Trent Reznor to start with.  But Michael Masnick, Editor of the TechDirt blog, gives a pretty convincing presentation of how this particular business model works, and works well, using Trent Reznor as his example.

Inspiring stuff as we move forward…lets see what 2009 can bring!

They weren’t very popular.  In fact, they only had one minor hit, “Bikini girls with Machine Guns.”  But The Cramps crossed all sorts of lines and leaned into all sorts of genres (punk, metal, rockabilly, psycho-billy, goth, even industrial) without ever being a part of them.  They were unique and original, dangerous and glam.  The real deal, in a landscape of imitators.

And now, lead singer Lux Interior has died at 62 of an existing heart condition.  Perhaps there won’t be the sort of eulogies for him that there are for the more successful frontmen, but his contribution is deep, unique, and powerful, and he will be missed.

Lux Interior of The Cramps