July 7, 2010
While Kramer is off, Bishop fills in on The Kramer Show. Catch the show live on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield, from 3 to 6p CST. The show streams online at WMAY dot com and you can also join the chat room with live streaming video.
"Amen Break"
Hip hop, Jungle, Techno fans, and all you musicians out there, listen up! If you are not familiar with the "Amen Break," you will surely have to catch this conversation. The issue of artists sampling music for their own creations has long been going on, especially as long as there has been easy cheap access to the technology that allows for it. Most recently, Men at Work were ordered to hand over royalties for their hit "Down Under" because it had a distinctive flute riff "copied" from a children's campfire song. Here's another video with even more details about Men at Work's case. The penalty, handed down yesterday, is 5 percent of the song's royalties.
What a Wacky Wednesday
Why can't it be a freaky Friday? So yesterday Lindsay Lohan broke down in court, like any privileged and pampered good girl gone bad would, when she received her sentence of 90 days in jail for just continued recklessness. Of course, the media is all over it. They went even further to put an intense microscope on Lohan's middle finger to show off a stupid design that says "f**k you." When will we stop our obsession with celebrity scandal and start focusing on things that matter? And, when will the media stop giving any airtime to the privileged and pampered good girls gone bad. Great role models, no doubt.
Double Rainbow Across the Sky
Crazy Double Rainbow guy is back! This time, we stumbled upon his YouTube profile where even more gems can be found. In one video he has a similar reaction to seeing wild turkey's out on some mountainous property. The original double rainbow video got so big, so quick that there was even a crew who auto-tuned it. Autotune is a technology that takes spoken word or crappy singing and corrects the tune anyway with any beat you want. Tune in for the new video and more! It's amazing how quickly things like this grow out of nowhere.
Enough fooling around
There is absolute madness all around us. If it wasn't for Bear, the double rainbow guy, we'd all lose our sanity! It seems that our institutions are indeed crumbling around us, as the late comedian Bill Hicks warned. They are no longer relevant, especially because they can't perform a simple task of serving the people without red tape, bureaucratic threats an more nonsense.
Governor Quinn should be ashamed of himself. The deplorable news of Quinn's staff getting raises while human services are cut is too much to take. Anyone working a service job who would even think about taking a raise right now should really rethink their service. Constant raises are the problem. Especially when there are huge cuts needed within government. Maybe there should be a proposal to drop most, if not all state workers' salaries to the minimum wage (like California). Hey! If it's good for private enterprise and small business, it has got to be good for the public sector and big government!
Big Slick is still causing complete havoc in the Gulf with tar ball now showing up on the Texas coast. This means every coastal state has been impacted by the Deep Water Horizon, or we think. Apparently there are 27,000 abandoned wells in the gulf; some if not all could be leaking oil! These are the types of things governments should be policing. Not the voice of the disenfranchised.
This and more
Be sure to tune in and take part in the conversation as there will be constant updates throughout the show on a variety of things. You never know what you could miss on The Kramer Show. This afternoon, WMAY is live from the Downtown Studio on S. 5th Street in Springfield.
