Internet success has become the next gold rush. Everyone is trying to set up their own little booth on the web and hoping for a big payday and lots of praise and adoration. A few have certainly managed to strike it rich, although most of these people are programmers and developers who have created platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

Still, some people are making remarkable amounts of money on sites like YouTube, which allow anyone with a camera access to the largest audience of all time. The success of those few who manage to break into the big time is easy to explain in a few general rules. If you want to be rich or famous through YouTube, you need to follow these simple steps:

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There have been alot of great music videos over the years, well not recently, so trying to pick my top five is very hard.  Some have had a huge impact on music Smells Like Teen Spirit or Welcome To The Jungle, but neither are great videos.  Others like Losing My Religion and Jeremy made an impact for being socially conscious.   Some are just bring back cool memories of our childhood.  Whatever the reason, music videos used to be a vital part of the music industry.  Here are my top 5 picks.

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With the most recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees being announced.  I realized that a lot of great artist have been getting the snub.  So, I ask you who deserves to go in?  Here are some of my choices.

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One of the great topics when discussing film is performance.  Certain performances stand out above all others, remembered, awarded, classic.  Brando in On the Waterfront.  Gable in Gone with the Wind.  These are the performances we look at as the definition of the art.  However, there a dozens of performances that history and critics tend to overlook.  Some so good that it was not appreciated until much later. 

Underrated performances is a discussion worth having.  If we don’t give them some props who will?  Here are a few of my favorites, none of which received an Oscar nomination.  (more…)

We all love to make best of/worst of list, but nobody screws up a list like Rolling Stone magazine.  They are the Kings of bad lists and they put a new one on their web site every weekend.  The newest one, isn’t as bad as most they come up with, but I want to know what everybody else would do with it.

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