Chelsea are to face the Los Angeles Galaxy on July 21 in an exhibition game as part of what has been termed "the World Series of Soccer" for reasons that have not been made completely clear. Beckham made headlines regularly in England, often for his off-field behavior as much as his soccer skills, and was seen walking around Manchester in a kimono on one occasion, eliciting mass snickers among the Mancunian fashion hawks. The game is probably going to be Beckham's debut, and Americans are anticipating an elegant performance from the effeminate, soft-spoken, dress-wearing former Manchester United midfielder and England captain.
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Few people know that Jimmy Buffett's eventual song "Margaritaville" was actually an educational ditty meant to pique high school students' interest in advanced physics. Here are the lyrics, in their entirety:

Plastic Electric

All these atoms, that I call "me"
Contain nuclei made in a monkey tree
A billion years of climbin' around
That finally dropped and went to "ground"

But inside those biochemical twists
An even smaller world exists
Where electrons shift and swap and jive
Sending DNA into overdrive

Where particles and plastic waves
That won't be killed by autoclaves
Spin eternal, freeze, and radiate
On electric ponds they figure eight

When this little electric monkey dies
The light will go out in his eyes
That energy will be converted
But the electrons will not be disconcerted...

Who knows how big he would've been if he kept these lyrics?
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Denied entry was the case that they gave him, as Snoop Dogg’s visa was given the no-go in Britain this week.

And all because of one little brawl in April of last year at Heathrow that left seven officers injured and Snoop and five of his buddies in jail for the night. Come on, he’s a rapper, what do you want?

They never should have denied Snoop and his entourage access to the first-class lounge. Thought he was pissed about that, wonder what he’s going to do about this. You think Snoop takes no for an answer from someone making $10 an hour? Please. So he’s banned from British Airways. Does that apply to all British doorways? Britain’s Home Secretary says yes.
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The Big Fish from England is back on tour, and the synopsis is frankly weird, as ever. Robyn Hitchcock, replete with admiring stars-in-their-own-right REM rockers Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, as well as Young Fresh Fellows leader Scott McCaughey (collectively known as The Venus 3) are propelling their strangeness across the USA this spring.

The bizarre artist, whose catalog is crammed with references to metamorphic animals and humans, sexual transmigration and conquest, wrapped in an effervescent pop-psychedelic miasma of rotting hypnoskein, is to tour the west coast through April, and his cultish followers are high with expectation.
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Oh my god. I think I just lost about a billion brain cells yelling my lungs out when Eric Maynor, the hot sophmore from Virginia Commonwealth hit that gorgeous little jumper with 1.8 seconds left to play to put the VCU Rams up by two over Duke (79 to 77), a team that has not gone out in the first round of March Madness in a long, long, looooooong time. (Ok, maybe '96 wasn't that long ago, but it sure feels like eons).
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Iggy Pop is going to appear in public and writhe in the spotlight once again, at various to-be-soiled arenas across the USA and beyond. We can only hope that the ol' bugger hasn't lost his mettle, and that the leather pants gifted to him by the Doors' Ray Manzarek (later sold for a pittance for a bag of smack) have somehow found their way back to the little feller from Detroit. For Ig is surely the true Lizard King (and the trousers' original owner Jim Morrison the Pretender), a latter-day troubadour with a mouthful of broken glass, and peanut butter smeared lacerations across his bare chest. read more ...

What was initially described as a move to protect royalty payments owed to recording artists for music played on internet radio has exploded in what is now claimed by internet radio broadcasters to be a blatant attempt by the industry to render internet radio extinct. SoundExchange is the sole agency charged by the US Copyright Office with the task of collecting these royalties, which apply only to non-interactive streaming internet radio stations and not websites whose listeners can dictate which sounds they hear. SoundExchange describes itself as “a nonprofit performance rights organization jointly controlled by artists and sound recording copyright owners through an 18-member board of directors with nine artist representatives and nine copyright owner representatives” on its official website. The organization was created by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). On March 1, 2007 the US Copyright Office released a ruling on royalty fees based exclusively on numbers of listeners tuned into individual Internet radio stations, rather than on those stations’ revenues. Each song played is termed “a performance”, which is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener. The royalty payments are retroactive through 2006, and costs to radio stations will run as follows:
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The first announcement that a high-profile performer is gay has come to Mexico … making it the first time the country has caught up to the rest of the world in decades.

Twenty-two-year-old pop sensation Christian Chavez announced that he was gay after photos of himself in Canada in a commitment ceremony showed up on the Internet. Ironic, since most Americans are ashamed of the indecent photos of themselves that show up online from their time in Mexico.
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The latest in jaw-dropping news is that Britney Spears has shaved her head, inked herself up and is helping the rest of the country think they’re more normal in comparison. And her chopped locks have since surfaced for sale at Esther’s Salon site, www.buybritneyshair.com, for a cool starting price of $1 million.

Since her lip-lock with Madonna, Britney has been traveling down the road of rebellion, but this time it feels different. Though she has been paralleled to the mega-star, Britney’s crossed the Borderline this time. She’s not reinventing as much as destroying; removing the traditional symbols of femininity to expose a raw version of herself.
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It’s Earth’s Lucky Day 7-7-07

July 7, 2007 will mark the day that Al Gore takes his Inconvenient Truths to the next level. Gore is joined by a large group of concerned activists to combat global warming … with a concert. The connection between the nearly 100 acts expected for the campaign and global warming is that, well, the bands all play music, and people like them. So it should raise awareness over all seven continents (don’t miss that other seven in there).

"In order to solve the Climate Crisis, we have to reach billions of people," Gore said in a statement on liveearth.org. "We are launching SOS and Live Earth to begin a process of communication that will mobilize people all over the world to take action. The Climate Crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement. We hope to jump-start that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007."
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