I am living on Channel Z

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From the Times:

The day after the war in Iraq started, a memo was distributed through the offices of MTV Europe by its broadcast standards department.

In the memo, Mark Sunderland, one of the department's managers, recommends that music videos depicting "war, soldiers, war planes, bombs, missiles, riots and social unrest, executions" and "other obviously sensitive material" not be shown on MTV in Britain and elsewhere in Europe until further notice.

Also, anything by the B-52's. Seriously.

Read on to the second page of the article, which describes Thurston Moore's free music label, Protest Records. "And the songs do not all have to be about the current war, he said; they can be in opposition to any issue."

In other news, the Dixie Chicks are at #4 on the Billboard 200, and remain at #1 on the country chart.

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I am uncharacteristically heartened by the Dixie Chicks' albums doing well.

Someone should form a band called the Dixie Bunnies and they should team up for an Easter concert.