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Digg-ing Joe Rogan

For the past few days, Joe Rogan has become the talk of the internet. It started with the video clip of Joe Rogan confronting Carlos Mencia at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. Carlos Mencia quickly claimed copyright infringements against Joe Rogan. The clips were taken down from YouTube. Rogan then revealed that he’s banned from The Comedy Store. Shortly after, Rogan then revealed that he has parted ways with his agent; the same agent who works for Carlos Mencia.

Joe Rogan was added to the Hollywood Improv roster, and scheduled to perform on February 15, 16, and 17 (2007).

Numbers of Joe Rogan news have been made popular on Digg.com and received thousands of diggs. One article on Digg.com calls on the Digg community to tell Comedy Central to cancel Carlos Mencia’s show.

Many internet users have voiced their opinions and an overwhelming majority are on Joe Rogan side.

One thread in Megadeth Forums (free registration required) regarding the “Rogan vs. Mencia” saga has an interesting title.
http://forums.megadeth.com/showthread.php?t=291406

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Carlos_Mencia_Claims_Copyright_Infringement_Against_Joe_Rogan
http://digg.com/television/Help_get_Ned_Menstealia_off_the_air
http://digg.com/celebrity/Joe_Rogan_s_Agent_Drops_him
http://digg.com/celebrity/Joe_Rogan_BANNED_from_the_Comedy_Store
http://digg.com/celebrity/Joe_Rogan_and_Carlos_Mencia_FIGHT_on_stage

Joe Rogan has been vocal in exposing Carlos Mencia for allegedly stealing other comics’ materials and profitting from it. This has been confirmed by numbers of comics whose materials were stolen by Mencia.

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Joe Rogan Takes His Act to The Improv

Joe Rogan (Fear Factor and News Radio) revealed that he’s banned from performing at The Comedy Store. Following the “Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia” saga, Rogan was asked by The Comedy Store management to “take a break” from performing there.  Shortly after the news, Rogan contacted The Hollywood Improv and got himself booked for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday show.

Joe Rogan has been vocal in “exposing” Carlos Mencia for stealing other Comics’ jokes. Both Mencia and Rogan finally duked it out in front of live audience at  The Comedy Store on February 10th, 2006. Rogan was backed by other Comics in confronting Mencia for stealing others’ jokes. The was uploaded on Rogan’s site along with YouTube, MySpace and other sites. Mencia quickly demanded YouTube to take down the videos citing that the videos were violating his copyright. The video is still available on Joe Rogan’s own site.

Joe Rogan’s schedule at The Hollywood Improv:

  • Thursday 02.15.2007 10:00pm
  • Friday 02.16.2007 08:30pm
  • Saturday 02.17.2007 10:00pm

Hollywood Improv
8162 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 651-2583

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Slayer Wins Grammy

Okay, this is literally a yesterday news.

Slayer wins Grammy Awards for their song “Eyes of The Insane”. It’s not the best song off “Christ Illusion” but it’s SLAYER!!!!!!!

iTune Store has the 49th Grammy Awards page, but Slayer is nowhere to be found there. Slayer’s “Christ Illusion” is available for purchase at iTunes Store, but it’s not on that list?

http://newmusic.itunes.com/redir/1119786/WINNERS/33156d8000faf1766c000463163124d0

Slayer – Christ Illusion @Amazon.com

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Dream Theater: “Systematic Chaos” and Roadrunner Records

Dream Theater has signed with Roadrunner Records.
http://dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php#roadrunner
http://roadrunnerrecords.com/news/story.aspx?newsitemID=14998

Dream Theater and Megadeth now share two things in common, Gigantour 2005 and Roadrunner Records.

Dream Theater previously signed to Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. Rodrunner Records was recently acquired by Warner Music Group. Effectively, Dream Theater changing record label without ever leaving Warner Music Group.
http://www.wmg.com/news/article/?id=8a0af81210571b6e01106f1d6da60923

Dream Theater’s ninth album titled “Systematic Chaos” is due in June.

Recent Dream Theater releases:

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Reno 911! – Movie Premiere and Carlos Alazraqui

Reno 911!: Miami The Movie Premiere will be held at Mann’s Chinese Theater on February 15th at 7:30 pm. The red carpet event will be atended by the main cast members. According to Carlos Alazraqui (Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia), the cast members will be arriving as their respective characters to the premiere.

I sat down with Carlos Alazraqui at The Hollywood Improv on Wednesday Night shortly after his stand-up performance. We talked about Reno 911! movie, his projects, and some other stuff. I will be posting the video after I finished editing it and showing it to Carlos. Check back for the exclusive official video podcast of Carlos Alazraqui at 37prime!

Carlos Alazraqui plays a janitor named “Julio” on NBC’s “Las Vegas” scheduled to air on February 23rd; the same night Reno 911! movie opens in theatres.

Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough (Deputy S. Jones) just finished working on a short-short film soon to appear somewhere, maybe on the internet.

Reno 911! is scheduled to shoot the fifth season sometimes in March 2007. More info to follow.

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Steve Jobs’ “Thought on Music”

Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple Inc. has posted an open letter at Apple site talking about music industry, digital distributions and DRM. Jobs explores the possibilities of the future of music industry on the digital forefront. They are:

  1. Digital music distributions stay the way it is today. Each company keeps their own DRM system to their likings.
  2. Apple licences FairPlay to other companies for digital distributions.
  3. DRM-Free digital distributions.

Jobs points out that overwhelming majority of music sold are DRM-free in the form of Compact Disc. All portable digital music players can play all the DRM-free music. DRMs have not worked the way the big record label wanted it.

Read it more at Apple Hot News:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

Recently Apple iTunes Store and FairPlay DRM have been deemed as illegal in Norway, France and Germany. It is only a matter of time for other countryies to follow suit. Steve Jobs is directly addressing this issue and show the willingness of Apple to abolish DRM from iTunes Store should the record companies agree to do so.

I want the music I purchased to be DRM-Free!

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Apple and The Beatles Can Work It Out

Apple Inc. didn’t announce anything during the SuperBowl regarding the iPod, iTunes and The Beatles. Today, Apple Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. announce a new agreement regarding the “apple” trademark. Based on the press release, Apple Inc. gains control over the trademark and consequently ends the trademark dispute with Apple Corps Ltd.

From Apple Press Release:

Under this new agreement, Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to “Apple” and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use. In addition, the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the companies will end, with each party bearing its own legal costs, and Apple Inc. will continue using its name and logos on iTunes®. The terms of settlement are confidential.

It’s only about time for The Beatles catalogue to be sold on the iTunes Store.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/02/05apple.html