David Choe Talks New Facebook Wealth, Love Of Gambling & Jerking Off On ‘Howard Stern’

You will learn more about being an artist listening to this interview than watching any amount of "American Idol", reading every issue of "Rolling Stone" and listening to any bloviator in the music business.
It’s all about freedom. And self-expression.
David Choe is [...]

I’d say it’s the power of television, but it’s more than that.
We have an idea that publicity will solve all our problems, if we can just get on TV we’ll be happy, our lives will open up like a river to the sea and from there on smiles will reign.
But we rarely focus on the [...]

My father was an expert.
Never one of the guys, he’d hold back in a group, make whiskey sours, thumb through newspapers and magazines at a speed so fast there was not a printing press that could keep up with him.
But just when you thought he wasn’t paying attention, he’d interrupt. He’d have to tell everybody [...]

Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
"Just consume, don’t produce, don’t share."

The content industries don’t want a distinction between what’s legal and illegal, that bit them in the ass already, with the Home Recording Act of 1992, wherein it was declared legal to make your own mixtapes, even share them. That horrified them. So [...]