June 2010
14 posts
It’s late, my eyes are hurting, and my children make me cry - just because…..
I’m ironing shirts while listening to music. I am growing some kind of beard. I am embarrassed by and ashamed of most of the men I am forced to interact with - they lower the tone considerably, and I hate to be lumped into the same arbitrary group as them.
I think I am totally turning into my father,...
“Which means they don’t surprise us. They don’t take us out of our comfort zone....”
– Facebook, Pandora Lead Rise of Recommendation Engines (via iamdanw) (via benkraal)
Exactly right. A recommendation engine has no love for culture, no desire to make things better, no drive to show you something better than what you already like. It is simply there to reinforce your notions of what...
A Special Message to a Special Someone
Cheer up, muggins - you’ll never be as shit at everything as me!
I HUGS YOU!
“…It used to be that indie releases were sacrosanct. The pirates fancied...”
– Joyce Lineham of Ashmont Records, on piracy. The album she is referring to is the Pernice Brothers ’Goodbye, Killer’, which was unreleased at the time she sent this email.
Which all does make me wonder - how did everything get so fucked up, and how can we save the music?
It feels like...
“The payoff from the process of making music is much more immediate, much more...”
– Joe Pernice (my secret crush), on writing music vs. fiction. Sounds like someone else we all secretly crush on.
Full article here
Travels with The Hardman
We’re in the bottleshop, when the classic opening drums of ‘Young Americans’ shoot through the instore audio.
The Hardman squeals. ‘it’s David Bowie!’ he shouts.
I look down to him to confirm, and he is looking up at me. With a tone of resignation he says ‘i’m glint to have to jump’, and then he jumps, for the entire song.
...on a jetplane...
I’m about to head off on my first ever business trip - this will be the longest I have been away from my family.
I’m going to miss them so so so much
May 2010
35 posts
