Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Well the Michael Jackson story just keeps getting weirder and weird. It’s a never-ending circus. Today, I came across this:
Michael Jackson will live on as a ‘plastinated’ creature preserved by German doctor Gunther von Hagens.
Von Hagens has caused controversy with everyone from the Pope to the chief rabbi in Israel with his practice of embalming [...]

The WSJ has an article up about how Hollywood will be changing the way we watch movies.
Get ready for a lot more ways to catch a movie.
Hollywood studios and tech companies are rolling out a host of innovations that will change the way we experience films at home and in theaters. They’ve already begun to [...]

Heh, heh. Priceless. Hey, give Lisa Simpson some credit. Instead of filing for bankruptcy she ended up getting a job to pay off her Mytunes music download bill.

I wonder if Apple CEO Steve Jobs saw this and found it amusing. Probably not. He’s not known to have much of a sense of humor [...]

Well I’m not very excited to hear that “American Gladiators” will be running but, hey, if somebody else wants to watch it then no problem on my end.
YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding [...]

Don’t Stop Believing by Journey.
Who would have thought it? A relic from the 80s makes a comeback in the Sopranos and ends up being the most downloaded song ever from iTunes.
Somewhere Steve Perry is smiling and depositing yet another royalty check.
I remember Journey getting ragged on by a lot of people when I was a [...]

Smart move on YouTube’s part.
YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company.
For months, Google, YouTube’s parent company, has been talking to the major film companies about launching an ad-supported, streaming movie [...]