New Song: Last Digression

MP3
WAV
Last Digression
(written around 1997)
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
Guitar and vocals by Lisa Rein
In my mind
In my head
I can’t seem to find
an answer to my questions
I can see them
I can hear in their direction
through the darkness
and the madness
and the emptyness
getting closer to
a vacuum-filled unconsciousness
a false impression
of my very last digression
by my side
in your bed
you will never find
the secret to your laughter
and you don’t seem to mind
that you cannot find an answer
to the darkness and the madness
ad the emptyness
getting closer to the memory
of your consciousness
a fool’s procession towards your very last
digression
a confession in my mind
to your lighter side
that’s hiding all the answers
second chances
heavy breathers breathing one last breath
surrounded
confounded by the sounding of a warning
a confession
vivisection of your memories
and they seduce me
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Gearing Up For Videoblogging Week 2007

I’ve been Second Lifing a lot lately, and thinking about video metadata….like always…
Next week is Videoblogging Week 2007 – That means at least one video a day for a week, all over the world.
Be sure to tag all your videoblogging week videos with the tag “videobloggingweek2007” — so they can be picked up by Mefeedia — and other aggregation systems…
videobloggingweek2007

All My Political Songs in one place

I’m trying to make political tunes that are also just fun to sing. Here
are all of them with quick links:
1. Improving

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002681.php
2. James Brown Died On Christmas

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002679.php
3. Democracy

http://www.lisarein.com/democracy.html
4. In the Spirit

5. James and Marybeth (about copyright law and how the public is losing their
end of the bargain)
written to James H. Billington (Librarian of Congress) and Marybeth Peters
(Register of Copyrights)

http://www.lisarein.com/jamesandmarybeth.html
6. Here’s myself and Audrey Howard in Golden Gate Park doing a cover of a
song Green Day’s Billy Armstrong covering the song by
Aaron Elliot and PHGP called “Life During Wartime”:

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001298.php

MySpace Sucks – Even the NY Times Gets Why

MySpace is trying to tell artists what widgets they can embed on their myspace pages. Think again. The backlash will kill the whole site.
It will be nice to see it happen. (Meaning it will be nice to either see the crappy myspace fail, or a smarter myspace wake up and relax these silly restrictions.)

MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users
By Brad Stone for the NY Times.

Some users of MySpace feel as if their space is being invaded.
MySpace, the Web’s largest social network, has gradually been imposing
limits on the software tools that users can embed in their pages, like
music and video players that also deliver advertising or enable
transactions…
But to some formerly enthusiastic MySpace users, the new restrictions
hamper their abilities to design their pages and promote new projects.
“The reason why I am so bummed out about MySpace now is because recently
they have been cutting down our freedom and taking away our rights slowly,”
wrote Tila Tequila, a singer who is one of MySpace’s most popular and
visible users, in a blog posting over the weekend. “MySpace will now only
allow you to use ‘MySpace’ things.”…
The tussle between MySpace and Indie911 underscores tensions between
established Internet companies and the latest generation of Web start-ups.
Without a critical mass of visitors to their sites, many of these smaller
companies are devising strategies that involve clamping on to sites like
MySpace and Facebook and trying to make money off their traffic.
MySpace, meanwhile, is trying to show that it can generate stable revenue.
Google will pay it at least $900 million over the next three years to serve
ads to the site’s users. And last fall, MySpace announced a partnership
with Snocap, a San Francisco-based company, to sell music.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this year, MySpace blocked widgets from Revver,
a video-sharing site that embeds advertisements in its clips, and Imeem, a
music buying service.

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