Mike's Minutiae

• The B-52s, "Devil in My Car"
  
• David Baerwald, "Hellbound Train"
  
• The Beatles, "Devil In Her Heart"
  
• Kate Bush, "Hammer Horror"
  
• Cake, "Satan is my Motor"
  
• Eric Clapton, "Hell Hound on My Trail"
  
• Dream Syndicate, "Halloween"
  
• Dave Edmunds, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
  
• Roky Erikson, "Creature With the Atom Brain"
  
• Grant Lee Buffalo, "Halloween"
  
• John Wesley Harding, "The Devil In Me"
  
• Alison Krauss & Union Station, "Devil in Disguise"
  
• Meteors, "Night of the Werewolf"
  
• Randy Newman, "Ghosts"
  
• Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"
  
• Roy Orbison, "Devil Doll"
  
• Savoy Brown, "Hellbound Train"
  
• Squirrel Nut Zippers, "Hell"
  
• Chris Stamey, "Ghost Story"
  
• Steve Wynn, "Ghosts"
  
• Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"

"In a real sense, the last big [rock] band through the door was U2, 25 years ago," Van Zandt said. "When our generation stops touring, it's over. Rock 'n' roll is a living, breathing animal that needs to be fed. With new blood."

Radio's rock mistake started, he said, with abandoning its '50s and '60s roots.

"Everything we do, everything we are, comes from those decades," he said. "And if you want younger people listening [to early rock], you can get that done. Who is cooler, early Elvis or Elton John? What appeals more to kids, Gene Vincent's black leather attitude, Little Richard's cry of liberation, Dion's total 'Sopranos' coolness - or the Eagles?

Residents and tourists in Fort Myers Beach, on Florida's Gulf Coast, awakened to the full force of Hurricane Wilma this morning after a sleepless night of anticipation for many of them.

In Fort Myers Beach, on Florida's gulf coast, residents and tourists awakened to the full force of Hurricane Wilma this morning after what was for many a sleepless night of anticipation.

An even more unusual parking trick was revealed by Nissan Motor's Pivo concept car. This vehicles egg-shaped cabin can swivel 360°, allowing the driver to turn backwards into forwards at the flick of a switch. Central to this idea is drive-by-wire technology – controlling the car electronically, rather than mechanically.

10/15 - Bonnie Raitt/Maia Sharp
10/16 - Jonathan Richman/Vic Chesnutt
10/18 - Richard Thompson/Eliza Gilkyson
10/19 - Mike Doughty/Orenda Fink (early show)
10/19 - matt pond PA (late show)
10/21 - James McMurtry
10/22 - U2/Damien Marley

• Mike Doughty, "Looking at the World From a Bottom of a Well"
  
• James McMurtry, "We Can't Make It Here"
  
• matt pond PA, "Fairlee"
  
• Jonathan Richman, "Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love"
  
• Eliza Gilkyson, "Prodigal Son"

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Francois Navarre, a Frenchman and former Le Monde journalist who heads X-17, said he uses only freelancers, guys with streets smarts and connections such as former San Diego-area firefighter Brad Diaz, who was shot with a BB gun outside Britney Spears' baby shower in Malibu this summer.

"We respect the rules of the community … not the laws or rules that these [old guard] guys created," Navarre said. "There's no priority for the old paparazzi."

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Frank Griffin is co-owner with Randy Bauer of the Bauer-Griffin Agency, one of the more established and respected firms. In one breath he lamented the influx of "guns for hire" that have added a "renegade element" to the trade.

While other studies have shown that periodic use of marijuana can cause memory loss and impair learning and a host of other health problems down the road, new research suggests the drug could have some benefits when administered regularly in a highly potent form.

Most "drugs of abuse" such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats' hippocampuses.

Oddly, Sony BMG will, upon request, e-mail detailed instructions on how to crack the copy protection.

Composer Adam Guettel and screenwriter William Goldman will collaborate on a musical version or the hit fairy tale film "The Princess Bride," the New York Post reported.

A passenger on a Greyhound bus heading from Punta Gorda to Miami caused a stir Tuesday night when she traipsed through the aisles screaming and ended up biting the arm of the bus driver, prompting him to call 911.

A retired Washington firefighter won the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Monday, presenting a gigantic pumpkin that weighed 1,229 pounds. In Rhode Island, a welder won a similar contest with an entry weighing 1,443 pounds.

If this sounds paranoid, take it up with IBM. The company filed a patent application in 2001 which contemplates using this wireless snooping technology to track people as they roam through "shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, rest rooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc." An IBM spokeswoman insisted the company isn't really prepared to go this far. Patent applications are routinely written to include every possible use of a technology, even some the company doesn't intend to pursue. Still, it's clear somebody at IBM has a pretty creepy imagination....

"I think the shocking part is they've spent the past three years saying, oh no, we'd never do this," Albrecht said.

There's a time device inside of me, I'm a self-destructing man
There's a red, under my bed and there's a little green man in my head
And he said, you're not going crazy, you're just a bit sad
Cause there's a man in you, gnawing you, tearing you into two

"She has danced into the danger zone, when the dancer becomes the dance."

The RIAA began its litigation campaign in September 2003, resulting in more than 14,000 lawsuits. So far, more than 3,300 parties have settled, which the RIAA says proves the overwhelming majority of those summoned are guilty of stealing copyright files.

But attorneys representing many of the accused say that's not true. Estimates of how many people are being wrongly targeted for illegal file sharing vary, from hundreds to many more.

Ray Beckerman, a New York-based attorney with Beldock Levine & Hoffman, put the number in the thousands.

"My impression is that the majority of those sued are innocent," Beckerman said.

Legal music downloads more than doubled in the first half of the year, but total music shipments dipped slightly, reversing last year's rising trend, amid fresh concerns over Web piracy, a record group said on Monday.

The United States saw a drop in physical sales of 5.3 percent in value but a strong increase in digital music sales, with single track downloads totaling 159 million in the first half of 2005, nearly three times the figure for the year-previous period.

A longstanding dispute between a Roman Catholic priest and the bishop of Norwich took another twist when the Rev. Justinian B. Rweyemamu found himself locked out of St. Bernard Church's rectory this weekend.

It was a move Norwich Bishop Michael Cote said was the result of the priest's refusal to obey repeated orders to leave, according to a story posted Sunday on the Journal-Inquirer Web site. In a statement released to the newspaper on Saturday, Cote said he has told the priest to leave the rectory three times since the beginning of the year, but that Rweyemamu has refused....

The two sides have been at odds since April 2004 when Rweyemamu, who is from Tanzania, says he was unfairly passed over for a temporary promotion in the parish, in part because of his race.

Cote, however, said race has played no role in the controversy. He said that parishioners have raised questions about Rweyemamu's homilies as well as his administration of a private charity not affiliated with the diocese....

Rweyemamu said after dining with friends Saturday night he returned to the rectory to find the locks had been changed. He spent the night at a friend's home.

"Selling out has changed. Selling out means you're doing bad creative."

~~Cheryl Berman,
chief creative officer for the
Leo Burnett ad agency, on the
Rolling Stones' new promotional
deal with TV soap opera
Days of Our Lives

Cheryl has also written celebrated music for clients like McDonald's, Disney and Hallmark that has been performed by celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan and Shawn Colvin.