Finches rock out

Apparently I'm on a "cute animals playing kick-ass rock 'n' roll" tear these days.

From The Guardian:

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has strategically placed plugged-in electric guitars as perches, and cymbals containing water and seeds as feeders. As the birds fly around and land on the instruments, or even wipe their beaks on the strings, the visitor will hear the amplified results.

Look out, Thurston Moore!

Axel Rows vs. Dr Pepper

To follow on the article from a few days earlier about the Dr Pepper company giving out vouchers for a free soda based upon the long-awaited (dreaded?) release of Gun and Rose (plus featured performers) "Chinese Democracy," the attorney for the remaining Gun'N'Rose is spouting off.

Apparently, Dr Pepper is a horrible, horrible company for having built an advertising campaign around a 17-year old running joke. Then when the joke came true, they became a terrible, awful company for not personally handing out 300 Million cans of Dr Pepper to each and every qualifying American. (Sorry, Tennessee!)

"The redemption scheme your company clumsily implemented for this offer was an unmitigated disaster which defrauded consumers and, in the eyes of vocal fans, "ruined" the day of Chinese Democracy's release."

I suspect what ruined the day even more for any remaining fans is that they are 17 FUCKING YEARS OLDER THAN WHEN THE LAST ORIGINAL ALBUM CAME OUT.

Well, I guess as long as they spell your name right, any publicity is good publicity.

Edit: Dr Pepper has no punctuation since the '50's.