Neil Young has an odd track record with music videos: He won a 1989 VMA for "This Note's For You," a pop-culture satire that, in retrospect, was only mildly funnier than "Eat It." Now his website is now streaming seven new clips for his
Living With War album, including the coma-inducing
"After The Garden," which combines a faux-CNN set-up ("The LWW Network"—get it?) and footage from
An Inconvenient Truth. Meaning that, in twenty-five years of MTV, we've gone from Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk to Al Gore filling out EPA reports (not that this would get any play on MTV, but still). We're all for anything that's going to give Michelle Malkin a major cow, but come on: If you want to make a video that will teach the kids about the terrors of global warming, you're going to need Justin Timberlake, Spike Jonze, and a bunch of sad-looking penguins.
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Neil Young's licensing agreements may extend to items like rolling papers and belt buckles, but the latest item to bear his name isn't for sale through his official Web site yet: It's a new species of trapdoor spider, the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond, who discovered and named the new species, is clearly a guitar aficionado, although it wasn't just Young's axework that inspired the nomenclature.
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"Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young said he has lost all hope that music can change the world." Perhaps this means "Canadian incredibly-loud-guitar rock legend Neil Young" will get back to his "Down By The River" steez, even though he is 
