I wasn’t going to watch the Grammys. Until I started checking my e-mail and Twitter feed on my BlackBerry… I set the DVR.  Figured I’d fast-forward through ’em at some later date.  But I feel drawn in by the magnetism of a cultural event, I now want to participate, I want to be a member […]

There’s a scene in this film where John C. Reilly’s Dean Ziegler implores Ed Helms’s Tim Lippe to trust him.  Once you’re a friend of Deansy Ziegler, you’re a friend for life, your secrets are safe. I was intrigued by the reviews.  I rarely go to the movies anymore, I can wait to watch five […]

GUITAR HERO It was a fad.  Stuns me that a business that specializes in selling fads didn’t realize this.  Ringtones were going to save the music industry, then ringbacks and Guitar Hero/Rock Band.  They’re all fads.  In the modern tech world you get in early and get out early, just like with a musical fad.  […]

At least James Murphy fell on his sword.  Admitted he was not prepared and tried to take action.  The rest of the concert industry? As for the public…  Just because you listen to a band’s music ad infinitum that does not mean you’re entitled to a front row seat at a tiny price.  Seats are […]