I know, I know: on-again, off-again: worse than Oprah’s engagement(s). I’m sorry. I had decided about three weeks ago that the jig was up: I wasn’t having any success carving out time to write, and I was depressed about my lack of success. So that, in my head at least, I started writing The Last [...]
You gotta hand it to Lil Wayne: He’s not a man to let a little thing like Rikers Island cramp his flow. Apparently during a blitzkrieg Super Bowl weekend before his internment began, he recorded all kinds of video footage for possible “purposing” into all manner of music video, both his and others’, that might [...]
As some of you will know, I haven’t been at this blogging thing very long—2+ months and counting. So I’m not a reliable source yet on the life of the blogger, or the daily rhythm of blogging, though I’m starting to get a pretty good idea. And it does seem to me that in doing [...]
My thesis, in yesterday’s post, was that Twitter and Facebook together have made attending a conference a lot richer, and a lot more complicated. Which are perhaps two ways of saying the same thing. Richer (cont.): I’m sure all of this—the invasion of conferences by Twitter and Facebook—isn’t news to many of you; I’m sure [...]
[Confession: I’m so new to Twitter, and Facebook, that I don’t yet know all the insider lingo. I’m sure I’ve made a hash, or perhaps hashtag, of it: I’m grateful for corrections. Teach me your secret language, O my Twitter and Facebook masters!] I spent last weekend in Seattle, at the Experience Music Project’s annual [...]
I want to use the blog today to call your attention to a new documentary that’s streaming in its entirety (77 mins.) this week on Pitchfork’s web site: I Need That Record! The Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store, posted on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 17). The film is directed, written, [...]