Tuesday, February 3, 2009

“The record shows …

… I took the blows / And did it my way!”
—Frank Sinatra, “My Way”
Bono’s New Year reflections on Frank Sinatra, “Notes From the Chairman,” can be found here:
Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you’ve pressed “record” is what makes it eternal.
For the moment, videos of U2’s concert for Obama are available via YouTube, but since all of these violate copyrights I wonder how long they will remain accessible there. (For a recent article on the subject, see “Copyright in the Age of YouTube” from the ABA Journal.)


Speaking of Sinatra’s record, the FBI’s dossier on him is available here.