The story's been updated: Reed's rep is telling the media that the incident was a matter of song-rights clearance for American television, not Lou's personal objection, and that the clearance issues have nothing to do with Reed himself.

I did think it a little weird that Lou Reed was personally handling rights permissions for his songs.

And I know rights permissions run very close tot he wire. Even on big Network shows. We had to stop captioning lyrics of background songs on some shows, because they would end up not getting rights and switch the song the day of broadcast, too late to change the captioning.

Is that why sometimes lyrics are captioned and sometimes there's just little notes?

Yup.

I'd always wondered that! Knowing may be half the battle, but knowing buffistas will win it!

Classic Photos of Jazz Musicians From The Library of Congress

Over at Flickr, the US Library of Congress just posted some amazing, copyright-free photos of jazz musicians taken by William P. Gottlieb that document the “Golden Age of Jazz” in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1938 to 1948.

The actual flickr set: [link]

I'm so grateful for those libraries and museums that are uploading stuff to Flickr. Those photos are great but they're just the tip of the iceberg of amazing stuff that's out there.

Last night I was talking to my new acquaintance about country. I used to think I hated country, too. And that was before country became middle-of-the-road rock with a cowboy hat. So today I've been poring through YouTube trying to find her examples of the real deal. So far I've linked her to Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Maddox Brothers & Rose, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, The Delmore Brothers and a couple more.

Sorry if this was posted earlier, but NF just tweeted, and could Seth Green be any cuter? [link]

That is awesome!

Fun! I thought of all our geek and gamer girls here.