No Rock And Roll Fun

I'M THINKING: THE FIRST SNUFF POP VID: Moby is trying to get a video done on the cheap ("offering fans the opportunity to direct his next video") and is, says the nme, encouraging people to send him video treatments (email them to info@d-e-f.com (subject line should be Video Comp, as they're apparently too cheap to go to the trouble of setting up a new email name for the project). Stern warnings against attachments of more than 2Kb, yer looking at a five grand budget - cheers, EMI - and you should include a short (fifty word) biog. And remember: the more humiliating, the better. (That's our hope, not an actual rule.)
Talking of Moby, we're setting up a drink for Justin from the Godless Reds for pointing out to us that when Moby sold We Are All Made of Stars to Intel, he not only broke his promise about cutting down on the relentless whoring of his music, but he went further, allowing them to cut the "people they fall apart" from the featured lyric. Next week, we expect to see Moby's artistic integrity as an item on ebay.
And, while we're on that Intel advert - Rob Walker writes about it in Slate, pointing up that Moby might actually sell records by being associated with an advert which seems to encourage music 'theft'...