Word: zeppeliner
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...stealing away time from studies increases, my irrational desire for shenanigans becomes unbearable. An hour and a half on amihotornot.com playing God of aesthetics. Forty-five minutes re-reading an utterly boring Times story on the profit margins of foreign car manufacturers. An hour faux-drumming to Led Zeppelin. The only procrastination that I have found to be acceptable to the efficiency-monitoring system of my mind is physical exercise. The other jaunts into extreme inefficiency don't even recharge my batteries, they just remind me I should be doing other more dreary things...
Shawn Fanning has become surprisingly thoughtful and well spoken--perhaps because, being at the center of an epochal lawsuit, he has had to. Although his guard is up these days, as you talk to him, plucking a Led Zeppelin song on his Les Paul guitar, his answers roll out in complete, concise sentences. He has a slightly raspy Californian accent--he has already lost Massachusetts' stretched a's and long r's--about what it's like to be at the center of everyone's attention, and not necessarily ever to have wanted to be there...
...their hands on one or two good songs. It also unlocks--and makes available for download--the greatest music library in the history of the world, much of it all but forgotten by the major labels. A few clicks of that mouse, and in streams bootleg Led Zeppelin or Ani DiFranco's instrumental version of the old communist anthem Internationale or--Joe Lieberman, take note--Hebrew prayer chants from the world's leading cantors...
...obviously Shirley MacLaine," he says, "a kind of deluded comedian, an angel with a broken wing." Finally, Polley walked away during preproduction, and Hudson stepped in. "Sarah is like a Bob Dylan song, more '60s than '70s," says Crowe. "That's why it didn't work. Kate Hudson is Zeppelin...
...blood. Every joy or pang of growing up has an accompanying sound track. And decades later, car-radio playings of specific songs, good or bad, can be as acute a prod to sweet or rueful memory as Proust's tea cake. For Cameron Crowe, the pastry was named Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Poco. And Crowe didn't just listen to them. He interviewed them...