Bits & Bytes
They overpriced the tickets and released a good new album no one heard.
You get one reunion tour, after that, you’re starting all over. Tickets have to be cheap and you’ve got to convince people to listen to your new music. Otherwise you’re just a has-been trying to lap up a little water. But these Baby Boomers and Gen-X’ers have bills that they just want to pay from going on the road. The audience is saying "no mas".
Furthermore, word of mouth on this tour was not good. Everyone’s saying Dave can’t sing. Used to be if you controlled the media you won the war. Now you’ve got to hope and pray the chattering masses, the public, are on your side online.
_____________________________________
"UCLA scholarship for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ son raises eyebrows"
Diddy’s worth $475 million and he bought his kid a $360,000 Maybach when he turned sixteen and now UCLA’s giving him a full free ride, a football scholarship?
Meanwhile, he’s a 5’9" 170 pound defensive back, do you really expect this pipsqueak to dominate in the Pac-12?
And the kid talks back on Twitter and UCLA defends the process.
Hell, big time college sports are professional leagues, why not pay the players, they earn it. But pay them all!
But if you’re gonna operate under the guise of being an "education institution", don’t you ask Diddy for a building instead of giving his kid money to go there?
_____________________________________
"Paul Begala: The Right Hates Spending, Unless It Pockets the Cash"
The next President will get elected on his looks, on external events, not his policies. Because if he did, Romney would have no chance.
Yes, Begala is a left-winger. No, this essay will not have any effect on the right wing. We live in a crazy world where the truth is irrelevant.
Begala’s point is the rich want smaller government but then they partake from the collective kitty.
"When Romney drove GST Steel into bankruptcy, he and his partners made $12 million in profit and another $4.5 million in consulting fees. But Romney stuck the taxpayers with a $44 million tab for the company’s underfunded pensions."
And Joe Ricketts, who was gonna spend $10 million attacking Obama, got $99 million from Mesa, AZ, to keep his Chicago Cubs there for spring training and now he’s seeking $150 million of taxpayer funds to redo Wrigley Field plus a share of amusement tax revenue in perpetuity.
Your move, shrink the government, lower the taxes on the rich Republicans.
_____________________________________
It’s just like the music business. Fat cats drum up heat in the media but it turns out the public doesn’t care. Insiders knew the Facebook IPO was a bust, it’s only the uninformed who got burned. And now the company is tarnished, maybe forever, because the people know it’s ad and mobile challenged.
Just because something’s all over the newspaper and TV, that doesn’t mean it’s true, real and worth a damn.
_____________________________________
"Conan O’Brien: KTLA Morning Team Is the Reason ‘China Is Kicking Our Ass’"
_____________________________________
Having it all doesn’t make you happy. Mraz had a worldwide hit and was on the verge of suicide.
I wish Jason gave more details in this speech, but even still, there’s more honesty here than you get in a week of television.
That’s what artists used to do, reveal truth, by opening up their wounds and telling us about them.
Kudos to Jason.
