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Gone are the days when one could fix their own car with just a screw driver, or solder in a new resistor or replace a tube and get an analog device up and running. It's not a maintenance-free world. Yet everything is so complicated that we have no choice but to defer to experts . . . and at a price both monetary and psychological.

Q: How did you get the idea to start The Major Glitch website?

A: That's been brewing for a long time. When the CD was first released, the total amount of playing time available on a single disc was 74 minutes, so folks were left off because the project had to be edited down to fit this rigid time format.
This was frustrating, and so instead of issuing a "director's cut" or restored physical version to mark the album's 10th anniversary, I thought it would be fun to return to the project's original idea of getting as many people involved as possible.

And the web allows this, as well as really making it a group composition. What's the term for that? . . . Websourcing?

The song got in the U.S. edition of the Guinness Book of Records in 1997 as "The World's Longest Pop Song". Maybe this is my cheesy way of holding on to that dubious title?!

Simply email your submission to us, we'll give it a listen and if it works, we'll edit it into The Major Glitch audio stream.

Q: Asking the public to add to your song seems a little . . . dangerous. How has it turned out so far?

A: Great! The more "dangerous" the better! Bring on the four-part harmony belching and tuned vacuum cleaners! In terms of someone hacking the site or some other form of mischief . . . sure, there's always that risk.

Q: You say you don't have to be a musician to add to the song. Will you reject anyone's contribution because it's too awful?

A: Don't think so. Non-musicians often make more interesting and exciting sounds than the schooled and the savvy. Give me something naive and honest-- and you're in!

Q: The song is currently up to more than 1 hour 35 minutes. How long is too long for a pop song?

A: Genre busting and culture jamming are all parts of the rebellious side of popular culture. Bob Dylan's "Like A Rollin' Stone" and The Beatles' "Hey Jude" both rewrote the rule book about the three-minute pop song being the only "acceptable" length.
And the first time an audio engineer slammed a compressor into the red and loved the sound, the technological boundaries were pushed into new territory, too . . . so these parameters are always in flux.

Everything about the project pushed the limits - even the copyright form was seven pages long to include all fourteen-plus writers. Bet the Library of Congress choked on that!

The original project really pushed the existing technologies. I had thought it would take three months to complete, but asking folks to contribute something to this ridiculous idea, plus asking that they do it without compensation dragged it out to a year and a half.

PC-based digital recording technology was in the Model T stage in the mid-'90's, but this worked to our advantage: Scott Anthony was the audio engineer, and was also helping beta-test the software we were using (SAW PLUS), and this extra time frame allowed the company's programmers to catch up to the demands of the project.

Q: Does this project have an end? Or will "The Devil Glitch" continue on forever in cyberspace?

A: I hope we get enough contributions that it can play for hours and hours! As long as there is a server with space to spare.

Q: Tell us about your background and what you're doing now.

A: I'm a songwriter and artist. In the early 1980s, I lead a band called The Waitresses. I've continued to play rock 'n' roll, and look for niches and projects that are fun and challenging both personally and technologically.
Currently, I am recording on obsolete audio formats (Edison wax cylinders, wire recorders, etc.), finishing up my fifth solo CD, writing and recording radio/podcast stories on subjects that interest me and playing drums in an instrumental surf band called purple k'niF.

I guess, I refuse to go quietly.

Q: You're also a blogger. What, if anything, does blogging bring to your music?

A: Love doing the blog-- wish there was more time, so that I could do it daily like I used to.
It informs everything, since I am of the print vs. visual generation-- and discovering something new and fun and then writing/reporting about it keeps the juices flowing.

Q: Do you have any favorite blogs or websites?

A: Boingboing, The Steampunk Workshop, Polis, Brewed Fresh Daily, AES Historical Committee and The Vox Showroom.

Q: Anything you'd like to add?

A: The Major Glitch website is very much a group project: Scott Anthony (audio), Keith Allison (graphics) and Chris D. Butler (programming) all made it happen.

Q: And, I just have to ask, how would you finish the line-- "Sometimes you can fix something by just . . . "-- today? Or have you run out of ideas?

A: NEVER!
"Sometimes you can fix something by just making it longer . . . can't wait to hear your submission!"

We also had a few questions for Scott Anthony, the man behind the audio for the Major Glitch project.

Q: How did you get involved in The Major Glitch project?

A: I engineered the original Devil Glitch project. Chris last year asked me to be involved with reviving the project into its new interactive form.
When we started The Devil Glitch project in the mid-90's, every musician had access to ADAT recorders, digital tape recorders that used cheap VHS cassettes. Project collaboration became very affordable. The time was ripe for Chris to reach out and easily include 15 artists to contribute musical performances.

Now the internet has reached a mature state and transferring music files via email and FTP is ubiquitous. Combine that with affordable web hosting and online storage (a delivery medium that doesn't have the hour-long cap of compact disc on song length) and we have the all the resources needed to allow the project to come back to life.

Q: Adding the music generated by the public to a song sounds technically tricky. What goes into the sound engineering?

A: I've always considered mixing music (combining all the instruments of a song into a final blend) to be more difficult than mastering music (sequencing different songs of an album using volume matching and tone adjustments).
The Major Glitch sections come in already mixed by the submitting artist. I just need to perform basic mastering . . . splice them in, do some basic level matching and upload new MP3s. The splices are the trickiest part; we don't stick religiously to a specific tempo and the arrangements (i.e., instruments used) can vary widely.

In the end we really want The Major Glitch to flow and feel like a continuous song. That's very important to us.

Q: Anything you'd like to add?

A: Chris was really inspired to let the song grow and not limit its original length, and inspired again to allow the project to continue.
Consider that glitches are responsible for the furthering of technology and civilization, that human need to make things better or easier. Combine that range, thousands of years of topics, with each artists' preferred writing style, be it topical or sarcasm or whatever. Not only do you have infinite possibilities for lyrics, in the end the art itself becomes a massive popular database of popular knowledge and anecdote.

It's really mind-boggling, and the point isn't just to do a crazily long song just because we can . . . it really is limitless.

Sourced news : http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/04/writing_the_worlds_longest_son.html

London, Dec 4 (ANI): American supermodel Janice Dickinson has revealed that she once had sex in a church - while dressed in a nuns outfit.

Dickinson said that she had sex in a church wearing a nuns dress and her sex partner was dressed up as a priest.

I dressed up as a nun and had sex at a church in Rome it was like a confession scene, The Sun quoted Dickinson, as saying.

I had a famous Italian film director dress up as a priest. That was hot. We did it, then we switched outfits, she added.

The model also shared that having sex in the open air has been a thrilling experience for her.
I loved doing it outdoors. I did it on a golf course once while we were teeing off, she said. (ANI)

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When Janice Dickinson had sex in a church dressed as a nun!