Update
GUY HANDS
So, if this scumbag is avoiding British taxes, in what looks like an ultimately unsuccessful move according to the "Times", can we really trust him to do the right thing with some of the most storied assets in the music business?
BEN STEIN
At least the "Times" has a backbone, even if they are purveying "aged news". Where’s the backbone in the entertainment industry? You test the limits and then "apologize"?
If only someone at the "Times" was willing to blow it up. Realize that the physical paper is history and focus on the Web. Just about everything I read in the Gray Lady today I already knew, from surfing yesterday. The key is to be the go-to source for the news NOW! Redesign the site so it looks more like cnn.com or http://news.yahoo.com/, never mind the afore-linked HuffPo. It may be all the news that’s fit to print, but the way they fit it on their site makes it unusable.
The major labels are riding the CD right to irrelevancy.
Is the "Times" going to ride the physical paper in the same direction?
Don’t rely on the past, unless you’re planning to shut up shop when it evaporates. Don’t try to prevent the future, HARNESS IT!
BILLY MAYS
We can laugh and say that even wannabe rock stars can die of drugs or we can see that we’ve got a true societal problem.
Isn’t getting famous and doing drugs about as cliched as a "Tramp Stamp"?
WILL KIRBY
Speaking of tattoos…
The L.A. "Times" can write a whole article and not mention that the doctor involved is the evil Dr. Will who won "Big Brother"?
The newspaper deserves to go out of business. Can’t anybody even use Google? They were pawns in this story. A tireless self-promoter gets front page ink promoting his IPO that’s far from a go? Laughable.
THOM YORKE
Who you gonna trust and believe, Doug Morris or Thom Yorke?
Doug’s got the relationships, but Yorke has the truth on his side. CDs are dead.
LAUREN LUKE
The future of the music business.
If a friend-less single mom can become a YouTube sensation with no help from the media, how long until a musician does the same thing?
I’d never heard of her until yesterday. But that’s just the point… If you’re trying to appeal to everyone, you’re doing it wrong. It’s solely about your niche. But YouTube allows you to grow some mighty big niches.
She’s honest, humble, trustworthy, everything musicians purveyed by the machine are not. People warm up to Lauren Luke, she’s a twenty first century star.
TRIUMPH AT BONNAROO
Dave may be beating Conan, but Triumph’s performance here is better than anything I’ve see on Letterman in eons.
You may have already seen this. But as much as we live in an instant world, many people miss out the first time through. But if something is good, it can stay alive online.
You’ve got to see this.
AT THE MOVIES
Younger isn’t always better.
I’d say experience and quality count, but the key is knowing your audience! Do you really expect youngsters to sit in front of the TV and watch movie reviews? They don’t believe in reviews, other than the ones their friends tweet and IM to them from the theatre on opening day.
SILLERMAN
Karma baby…
REDBOX
If you don’t know what this is, you’ve got too much money.
It’s fascinating to watch the studios squirm over these $1 a night DVD vending machines. Rather than try to fuck with the past, why don’t they make cheap, on demand movies available online and cable?
Because they’re beholden to Wal-Mart! Which is eliminating free-standing DVD cardboard dumps!
If the entertainment business ran Apple we’d all still be running Apple II’s, having to insert an identity card every time we booted up, required to surf at dialup speed.
Fuck the Internet, I’ve got to keep my business model!
Yes, that’s what the entertainment companies truly desire, no Internet. Just tell them to give up their private jets and drive to that island retreat, then maybe they’ll get it!
