Archive for 2008/02


Belonging

I heard Daughtry on Sirius today. There are many things wrong with Sirius.  First and foremost, the reception problem.  Secondly, the insane jive element.  With all the cliches of radio.  All the stuff Lee Abrams has excised from XM.  But I’ve come to find out that Sirius sounds better than XM.  And that Sirius plays […]

Ownership

We can argue over the mechanical rate, and lament that whatever it is, the major labels will negotiate it downward, but one thing’s for sure, in the future acts will own their records. The traditional deal was we find you, we pay you a bunch of money, and we own everything. Is this fair? Maybe […]

U23D

Don’t go to the Website, don’t watch the trailer, stop reading this right now and get your ass to the THEATRE! The producer has been hounding me for six weeks to see this flick. I can’t say that I wasn’t interested, but I was traveling, it was complicated. Then I started to get e-mail. Like […]

Free Fallin’

For once, the game was the star.  Not the ads, not the music, but the game.  Bob Costas says sports are a metaphor for life, today’s Super Bowl evidenced this.  With all the drama, all the heartbreak and a goddamn correction factor. Have you followed the Formula One scandal?  I’ll leave the details out other […]