Went to pick up my tickets for Billy Joel today. Yeah, okay, but the last time I saw him live was 1974 (when he stormed off stage after the 2nd or 3rd song because he didn’t like the piano) so what the heck.

And when I was at Tom Lee, I saw a flyer for this and said, “holy cow!” In case you’re too lazy to click over, February 10 & 11, Chick Corea & John McLaughlin, Five Peace Band. And the rest of the band is Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett, Brian Blade. I’m thinking about buying tickets for both nights.

Oh and in case you don’t already know, Kraftwerk tickets go on sale tomorrow. They’re playing one night here, first time ever for them, first week of December. How can you go wrong with lyrics like, “Machine, machine, machine, machine, machine, machine”? (Showed my gf their Minimum-Maximum concert DVD and now she’s excited about seeing them too, or at least doing a reasonable job of pretending to be.)

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Hey check it out – every video ever aired on MTV in the US can now be streamed online. No geographic check so it works in HK, just tried it. And (at least for now) there are no ads.

Why no ads? Explained here:

MTV.com spokesman Tom Biro tried to explain, and if I understand him correctly, the site is supposed to be used as a sort of white-label archive that can be used both by MTV Networks, owned by Viacom (VIA), to build other video sites, as well as outsiders, both professionals and amateurs.

MediaMemo, for instance, might want to build its own De La Soul fan site, and could grab all the clips needed from the MTV site.

That also explains why the site has such a nice clean, look: There aren’t any ads there, because MTV isn’t selling it as a destination site.

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Also noted today:

Lifehacker: DVDNeXtCOPYiTurns removes iTunes DRM with Virtual CD Burner.

Gizmodo: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S-10 Ultra-Portable gets Splashtop Instant Boot-up.

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Also also noted today:

Cindy Crawford, 42 years old, French Vogue magazine, yeah yeah yeah Photoshop involved I’m sure but still ….

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