Mario, I hate you!
You said you had to
work. Then why is
your car here at
her place?
You're a liar.
I hate you.
I hate you!
Amber
PS: Page me later
Pictured above, holding a photo/painting collage - one of his countless finds, is FOUND magazine co-founder Davy Rothbart and to the right is a transcription of the infamous short, passionately scribbled note that he found on his car windshield one snowy morning in Chicago six years ago - the very note that inspired him to initiate what
would become a popular magazine (Found), a couple of books culled from the magazines, a popular website, a spinoff magazine (Dirty Found), and an excuse to tour the USA making connections with a whole subculture of people addicted to digging in the garbage or looking down on the sidewalk to find discarded or lost items (letters, to-do lists, photos, kids paintings, napkin doodles, birthday cards, printed emails etc etc) to submit for publication in Found.At the moment Davy, who runs the popular and unique magazine with his brother/partner Peter and a host of others, is currently in the midst of one of his "tours" - the current Found Tour a sixty five city trek across the USA and Canada on which he and his brother converge with fans at independent bookstores, libraries, community halls, bars, and small clubs. There they display "found" items, read aloud found letters, and with guitar and other accompaniment perform musical interpretations of their finds, and most importantly meet other fans of found items who always bring along stuff that they found - much of which finds its way either into an issue of Found or on the Found Website where the Find of the Day is posted daily. I recently caught up with Davy, who was in the SoCal area last week for a series of Found shows in San Diego, Long Beach, and Los Angeles, to ask him about his magazine and in particular that note from Amber to Mario that started the whole thing.
down). Then of course there were the ODB's seemingly endless legal troubles. These legal woes included being arrested for public drunkenness on many occasions (Ol' Drunk Bastard was what he was labeled by Bill Bellamy at the VIbe awards one year due to his inebriated condition) and being thrown in jail (2001) for possession of crack. ODB was also convicted of second degree assault for an attempted robbery, He even got himself shot after an argument with a fellow rapper. And, in a well publicized case, got in trouble for failure to pay child support for three of his thirteen children. The list of legal woes goes on, and on, and even includes being arrested for shoplifting a pair of $50 shoes from a Foot Locker store in Virginia Beach, Virginia, ironically at the time the rapper had a wad of $500 cash in his pocket!. 
It's Britney bitch! announces Britney Spears straight out the gate (Track 1, 0:00 - 0:02) on her brand new album, "Blackout" on Jive/Zomba (available at each Amoeba Music store) which, in reaction to fear of internet leaking of songs, was released on October 30th - a couple of weeks early of its initial street date. The big surprise is that the album is actually pretty darn good - a tight dance-pop collection on which the heavily processed voice of Brit often lashes out at the mean media - like in the vocoder-fed song "Piece of Me" - as heard in the above "non-official" video version that displays the Tabloid Britney that we are all too familiar with - like it or not. But putting aside all the tabloid self-references and all the other superficial stuff, what really strikes me most about this new Britney Spears album is its production, the music itself and just how expertly its producers (Danja and others such as Timbaland and Pharrell Williams) effortlessly channel pop's golden past. Take for example "Heaven on Earth" (scroll all the way down for still YouTube clip to hear audio) is a straight homage (rip-off?) to Donna Summers' 1977 Giorgio Moroder produced dance masterpiece "I Feel Love." 
