Good morning, homies. Hope all is well in your little corner of the world.
Just a reminder, no Saturday Night Karaoke tonight. We'd rather not compete with the city's birthday celebration, as far as parking, traffic, etc.
Ya know, I truly hope Alec Baldwin has evolved beyond his previous (numerous and well-documented) issues. And, if he has, I'm sure that he truly feels terrible for what happened on that movie set Thursday morning. I just don't give a single fuck to hear anything more about it. At least, not about the story from Baldwin's perspective.
Any further stories should be about the victim: Her life, family, work, friends, whatever. Whether intentionally or (hopefully) not, Baldwin is a killer. Something he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. But, he has a life to live. Halyna Hutchins does not. She is the victim. She is the story.
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I won't spoil it for you (in case you're a fan like I am), but I was surprised by the penultimate episode of this season of What We Do In The Shadows. I did not see that coming.
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A plea deal on battery charges between Florida prosecutors and Rod Stewart fell through yesterday.
Neither Stewart nor his son Sean, who were both charged in connection to an incident at a New Year’s Eve party nearly in 2019, were in court when the presiding judge announced that a scheduled hearing to finalized the plea had been canceled. The Stewarts are now scheduled to stand trial on battery charges beginning January 25.
This is the second time a plea deal in the case has fallen through, and proceedings have also been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor charge is one year in jail.
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Speaking of reminders, we're now seven days away from the 11th Annual Costumes & Karaoke Halloween Party, coming up next Saturday night at the Iron Horse Tavern in downtown Norcross. Hope to see you there.
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Evidently, there's a movie being made about Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. No title, casting, or release date has been announced.
Hard pass for me, but I'm sure plenty of people will watch.
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Lil Joe Records representatives filed suit in Florida Thursday against 2 Live Crew in response to the group's attempts to win back control of their catalog. The suit argues that the group shouldn't be allowed to use the termination right to win back their works, and that the performers never owned them in the first place.
The termination right is a provision that allows creators to regain ownership of their works decades after they sold them, and 2 Live Crew is one of the latest musical acts to become embroiled in a termination battle. Cher and KC and The Sunshine Band have also recently sought the same legal relief, and a number of record labels are facing class actions from groups of artists seeking to recapture their masters.
In their lawsuit, Lil Joe claims to have purchased 2 Live Crew's catalog when Luke Records, the group's previous label went bankrupt in 1995- a deal that included both publishing rights and masters, as well as the trademarks to the group's name, and asks the court to rule that 2 Live Crew is ineligible to use the termination provision after failing to file proper notices, and that aspects of bankruptcy law trump the termination right.
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In other legal news, a California judge dismissed a suit against Nirvana and Live Nation's merchandising branch that claimed copyright infringement centering on the band's "Vestibule" tour shirt featuring a drawing of a "seven circles of hell" below the band's name.
Jocelyn Susan Bundy filed suit in April, claiming the drawing was created by her grandfather in 1949 and remains under British copyright. She explained the delay in filing the suit (the shirt was first released in 1989) saying she had only recently learned about the shirt. She claims the image was "virtually identical" to her grandfather’s "Upper Hell," which was published as an illustration in a 1949 translation of Dante’s Inferno.
US District Judge Dale S. Fischer ruled that "given that one of the core disputes in this case concerns ownership of the copyright in the Illustration, which is governed by U.K. law, the U.K. likely has a stronger interest, on balance, in this case."
The band is also involved in protracted litigation against designer Marc Jacobs over his use of a "smiley face" logo similar to the one used on Nirvana tees.
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Birthdays today include: Carol Fran (88); David Wills (70); Dianne Reeves (65); Dwight Yoakam (65); "Weird" Al Yankovic (62); Robert Trujillo of Metallica (57); David Thomas of Take 6 (55); Dale Crover of the Melvins (54); Shelby Lynne (53); Jimmy Wayne (49); and Miguel (36). #MusicalBirthdays
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