·The Life's Rich Pageant album was featured in Stuff(tm) magazine as an album "we all listened to in College." In addition, Michael reports to 'Wired' magazine, Sept 2001, that "Japan Rocks!", after being 'club-lagged'. ---------- ·Michael is writing a fictional account of the R.E.M. story for MTV. ---------- ·In Houston, Radiohead dedicated the song "Talk Show Host" to R.E.M. Meanwhile Michael and Mike were spotted at the latest U2 concert. ---------- ·A new R.E.M. documentary was ditched because the band has refused to comment on the arrest of Peter Buck in London. ---------- ·Hootie & the Blowfish will release a cover song album this fall which will include their very own rendition of "Driver 8". ---------- ·Mike Mills parterned up on a 3.5 million dollar violin purchase. ---------- ·One of R.E.M.'s signature songs "Everybody Hurts", is now the subject of resolution up for consideration in the Nevada Legislature. UPDATE: This passed recently by the Nevada Assembly. ---------- ·Michael was at the Sundance festival having a great time, surrounded by good friends. ---------- ·Don Dixon, a long time friend of R.E.M. and co-producer of a couple of their albums is having health problems right now. Please visit remhq to find out how you can help him out. ---------- ·Michael had his 41st birthday on January 4th, 2001. ---------- ·Michael responded to a journalist's question about the new President, with "He is not our President". Yikes. ---------- ·Mike Mills has been busy. First off he was involved in a bad rumor regarding him and N*Sync that wasn't true. Next, he participated in a tennis tournament, then he was spotted watching U2's performance at a recent SNL taping! ---------- ·Michael has been working hard to keep the city of Athens from expanding and growing, trying to preserve the land. ---------- ·Peter has been busy reading and listening to new albums, take a look at the list at REMHQ.com! ---------- ·The Athens-Clarke County commissioners agreed bo buy the train tresle that appears on the back of the R.E.M. Murmurs album. ---------- ·Nathen December of R.E.M. fame will be working with the Christian band "DC Talk" on their next album endeaver. ---------- ·Ken Stringfellow's rock band "The Posies" encountered bad luck at a hotel recently when $4,000 worth of equipment was stolen. ---------- ·The Trestles in Athens have been saved due to a large support of Internet REM fans. ----------