Not sleeping so some misc stuff:

Jimmy Page broke a finger, the Led Zep “reunion” show has been postponed by two weeks. I’m assuming that this show will find its way to CD and DVD, legally or otherwise, so I will survive not being there.

Lisa Stein, 62 years old, was found beaten to death in her NYC apartment. Stein, ex-wife of Sire Records head Seymour Stein, was the Ramones’ manager in the 70s and the person responsible for bringing them to the UK in 76 – which was directly responsible for the subsequent explosion of punk rock in the UK.

December 4th sees release of a 16 disc Pink Floyd box set, Oh By the Way, which does not include their live albums or Relics. Initially at least there will be only 10,000 copies. Don’t know what they will add to make it irresistible for collectors and trainspotters.

U2′s biggest album, Joshua Tree, gets reissued later this month as a single cd, double cd, double cd + 1 dvd, and double vinyl lp set, some of these with super deluxe packaging.

If you don’t already know about this, check over on Youtube. Two members of Arcade Fire turned up at Springsteen’s Ottawa show, joining him for his own State Trooper and their own Keep the Car Running. It’s really worth checking out.

A live Wilco concert on PBS in the US this weekend. Hopefully downloadable by early next week from the usual sources.

The Standard notes that the two Americans found dead in a hotel room in the Grand Hyatt died from a drug overdose – in this case a combination of coke and heroin. While they had been spotted earlier bringing girls back to the hotel, there was no evidence of robbery or violence.

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Had a funny lunch experience today, going for fake Chinese food for lunch. Our waiter was a young man who had recently moved to the US from Singapore. I told him I lived in HK and had just been in Singapore two weeks earlier. After conversing a bit in Putonghua and mentioning the great crab and tiger prawns I’d had while in his home town, he warned me that the food in the restaurant was not very good. “Nothing fresh, everything frozen,” he said. After finishing, when I told him he was right, he asked if I could recommend any restaurants to him. I apologized, told him I hadn’t lived in NY for 12 years and that if I knew any better places, I wouldn’t have gone there in the first place.

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Figured I would try to conquer my jetlag and force myself to stay up until at least 11 PM. Flipped around the 800 channels on the cable TV vainly trying to find something watchable. Had to explain to my mother that Nicole Richie was someone who was famous for being famous. And then she insisted on watching a primetime game show called Deal or No Deal, and I was fast asleep before 9 PM, up at 1 AM again. Gonna try for more sleep now.