Grumpy Beastie's Other Lair

Some Lists I found on Blender I found amusing:

10 Best Old School Rock Band Logos Ever
http://www.blender.com/10BestOldSchoolRockBandLogosEver/articles/24150.aspx

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time
http://www.blender.com/articles/default.aspx?key=18696

The 13 Worst Hair Trends in Music
http://www.blender.com/articles/default.aspx?key=21573&pg=0

The Worlds Most Oversexed Musicians
http://www.blender.com/TheWorldsMostOverSexedMusicians/articles/26094.aspx
There were only two women on that list

What if we legalized all drugs?
By Shirley Skeel
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/RaiseKids/WhatIfWeLegalizedAllDrugs.aspx?page=1

The article takes a look at two different scenarios, if marijuana alone were legalized and if all street drugs were legalized, and how it would effect the economy and standards of living in the US.

A slide show of what the Kim Morgan thinks are the best 10 Brad Pitt movies ever and her reasons why. Although she has some valid arguments, I still couldn't help but be a bit disappointed some of my personal favorites did not make the list. Did all of yours?

The Best of Brad Pitt
By Kim Morgan
MSN Movies
http://movies.msn.com/movies/gallery.aspx/?gallery=18677&photo=968112

For those of you who don't want to read through the slide show I have put the list under a cut:
( Top Ten )

In Defense of Losing Your Virginity
Sept. 9, 2008, 3:19 PM EST

By Martha Brockenbrough
Special to MSN Entertainment
http://music.msn.com/music/opinion/in-defense-of-losing-your-virginity/?GT1=BUZZ1

Take that purity rings!

The exhibition's site:
Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
June 27–August 10, 2008
2nd Floor

"Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts—is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts?"
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/

The article I read on the exhibition:
Art or Not The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition.
By Mia Fineman
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the Brooklyn Museum's experiment in crowd-sourcing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2195378/?GT1=38001

A similar art experiment mentioned in the above article:
Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings
http://www.diaart.org/km/painting.html

I really wanted to talk about this article and exhibition when I first read it but was unable to. But I am bringing it to your attention now because it is still relevant and an interesting topic. And I was wondering about any of your opinions on the idea of art exhibitions being curated by the general public vs. curators, or anything else brought up by this post.