Sold 517,000 albums last week.  The third highest debut this year, after Lil’ Wayne’s "Tha Carter III" with 1,006,000 and Coldplay’s "Viva La Vida" with 721,000. That’s piss poor. ‘N Sync sold 1.1 million albums IN ONE DAY!  By time a week had passed, "No Strings Attached" had sold 2.4 million copies!  Are the Jonas […]

Personally, I’d rather hear a new Talking Heads album produced by Eno.  The Heads were a better fit than Coldplay will ever be.  Because the Heads were more about sound than songs…well, sound played an integral part.  Compare "Talking Heads: 77" to "More Songs About Buildings and Food" to get the idea.  Sure, "77" contained […]

The reason they can’t hire anybody is everybody with a shred of tech knowledge knows it’s going to be a disaster.  MySpace is so 2006…  And its software/interface sucks.  And there was no traction with Snocap…  So suddenly, because fat cats found out social networking/Web 2.0 was the next big thing, they’re going to anoint […]

Marty Diamond sent me the most fascinating book. "High Crimes" is the story of the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition.  But it’s much more than that.  It’s an expose of the exploits of lying, cheating scumbags atop the world’s highest mountain.  If someone steals your oxygen bottle in the death zone, you might be residing upon […]