Entries from August 2008
Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music - Music Think Tank - Music Think Tank
This is one of the best pieces I've ever read on the modern musician's dilemma. Seriously, if you care about the whole debate about music right now, you need to read this.
(tags: music business)
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Garret van Swearingen
An ancestor of mine whose portrait has survived. (He hella looks like me.) Interesting to know this guy's DNA is somewhere in my genetic makeup.
(tags: genealogy history family)
Exclusive Excerpt: Stephen Davis’s ‘Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses’ — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
Hee hee hee. [...]
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Cowboy Junkies, Whites Off Earth Now! (Their first album, and for me a neck and neck tie for their best, along with, of course, The Trinity Sessions)
The Verve, Forth
The Bug, London Zoo
Bloc Party, Intimacy
Brian Eno & David Byrne, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Jimmy Cliff, Anthology
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A couple of clients not paying me, so I’m broke. Other clients flaking on promised work, so I haven’t got any more coming in immediately.
Dude not moving out of the apartment I was supposed to move into, and not giving a timetable for doing so, so I’m actually literally homeless. I’m couch surfing at the [...]
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My new portfolio is up. Lemme know what you think. It was a massive undertaking, most of it programming.
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Tags: Design · Site Info · Visual Art
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Perfect.
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August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter.
(tags: humor lovecraft)
The Quietus | Features | Rapper Immortal Technique Swaps The Mean Streats Of Harlem For Afghanistan
Nice! Tech was one of the artists I pursued for Mperia back in the day. One of the most brilliant MCs out there
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Scientists Say [...]
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August 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Jack Womack is one of speculative fiction’s secret treasures. His 1995 novel Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is one of the most remarkable and emotionally affecting works I’ve ever read and the seed of my thinking about the whole Grim Meathook Future thing.It’s not science fiction, per se; it’s the story of how American civilization [...]
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Tags: Culture · Personal · Politics · Technology · Writing
Did you know that the word hello did not enter the dictionary until 1883? And that it was a relatively rare greeting until Thomas Edison suggested it as a way of answering the recently-invented telephone?
Me either.
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