LONDON, England (CNN) -- Syd Barrett, the eccentric guitarist who founded Pink Floyd but later left the music business to live quietly and somewhat reclusively, has died at the age of 60, according to a spokeswoman for the band.

CNN.com - Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett dies - Jul 11, 2006

Very satisfying indeed.

SATISFACTION

] Doug Z's Art is a mixture of thought, creativity, spray
] cans and imaginations. His work is unusual, ethereal and
] even mind warping.

One of Rattle's friends does interesting things with krylon...

Doug Z Art Gallery

Dolemite wrote:
] ] John Mayer is the best thing to happen to vanilla sex
] ] since the missionary position. Much like the regularly
] ] maligned ice cream flavor, kinkless intercourse has
] ] always been tastier than advertised. So when the
] ] musically and sexually adventurous alike dismiss Mayer's
] ] Berklee-tutored guitar and Abercrombie-swaddled purr as
] ] aural Vicodin for soccer moms and timid schoolgirls, it
] ] only goes to show how limited a palette both kinds of
] ] fetishists have. In fact, Mayer's new "Heavier Things" is
] ] just the thing to heat your bathwater on those occasions
] ] when you don't want to get your freak on -- but you're
] ] still game for seeing where some heavy petting might
] ] lead.
]
] I had to meme this because I know that nanochick is such a
] huge fan of John Mayer.

All I have to say is "Come Back To Bed". And I'm not normally into such girly music. But I'm really glad I picked up "Heavier Things".

RE: His body (of work) is a wonderland

Jeremy wrote:
] "The Bride" was once part of a group of world class female
] assassins, until the group leader, "Bill" and the other
] assassins turn against her. Five years later "The Bride"
] awakens from the coma the assassins left her in and heads out
] to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional movies, Kill Bill
] is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like
] a book than a film.
]
] Uma Thurman stars in Quentin Tarantino's fourth film venture,
] Kill Bill. Thurman plays a character known as the Bride, a
] pregnant assassin who is shot by her boss, Bill (David
] Carradine), on her wedding day, leaving herself and the
] wedding guests lying for dead. She survives and after being in
] a coma for five years, she wakes to seek revenge on her
] co-workers and boss who had attacked her. She sets out to
] strike down her once fellow assassins, leaving Bill for
] last.

Practically the only English I saw for three weeks in Hungary was on the posters for this movie plastered all over Budapest. I can't wait to see what all the fuss is about.

RE: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

] LONDON (AP) -- Eminem stunned tens of thousands of people
] attending a concert in England by giving a necklace
] estimated at $450,000 to one of his fans.

And my love for Eminem grows and grows..

Eminem Gives Fan $450K Gift

] LONDON, England (AP) -- The real Slim Shady stood up and
] made fun of Michael Jackson by dangling a baby doll over
] a hotel balcony.

That's awesome!! I like Eminem even more now.

Eminem mocks Jackson, dangles doll

] In Sanford, North Carolina, the listing belongs to a
] church whose minister is actually named Bruce. And he is
] not amused.

That's friggin' AWESOME.

Phone number causes 'Almighty' uproar

] What does it say about American culture if Venice
] filmmaker Tim Sullivan can't get financing for a remake
] of the 1964 splatter classic "2000 Maniacs"?
]
] What it said to Sullivan is that raising funds for
] low-budget independent movies -- never easy -- has gotten
] tougher since Wall Street laid an egg.
]
] At 38, Sullivan is a 20-year horror veteran. His first
] break came in his hometown of Metuchen, N.J., on 1983's
] forgotten "Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn."
] Sullivan's job, wielding a Black & Decker hand pump
] behind the scenes, was to make sure the blood gushed on
] cue and on budget.

Tim is also my cousin, so meme/blog this around and get my kin some attention..

] The plot: Confederate zombies take revenge on
] present-day Yankee tourists.

Whole bunch of folks in the southeast on MemeStreams.. If this dosen't get you going, what will?

] A couple of characters will be dropped and some action
] sequences trimmed. However, there are some compromises
] he won't make. The script said eight murders, and eight
] murders there will be.
]
] "If I have to choose between a decapitation and a
] motorcycle chase," Sullivan said, "I'm going with the
] decapitation."

Right on..

Movie Industry Screwed! Economy Screwed! Rattle's cousin screwed out of financing for '2000 Maniacs' remake!

] A Gucci advertisement featuring a woman with her pubic
] hair cropped in the shape of a letter "G" got the
] go-ahead from Britain's tough advertising watchdog on
] Wednesday.

I'll bet that's gonna itch when it starts to grow back in.

Gucci Gets Go-Ahead for Pubic Hair Ad