Archive for 2017


No Streaming Taylor

“Taylor Swift Will Keep New Album From Streaming For A Week” This is about perception. The goal is to get as big a sales number as possible and then tout this to the somnambulant media who will eat it up, printing the facts verbatim, about Taylor’s “success,” and hopefully the public will eat it up. […]

Coloured Rain

Coloured Rain – Spotify The second is my favorite. Traffic album, that is. I haven’t been able to get “Hey, Western Union Man” out of my brain, I keep singing the lyrics to myself, it’s great to be infected by a tune, and playing Al Kooper’s “I Stand Alone” album on my phone, I heard […]

Today’s Nuggets

Don’t waste your time yelling into the echo chamber, love him or hate him, your words about Trump make no difference to the other side, it’s about doing the work, the anonymous drudgery, no one likes to do the work. Sometimes the softest voice commands the most power. We’re conditioned to yell, but Gus Fring […]

musical.ly

I finally downloaded the app (and live.ly too!) It was the article in today’s WSJ. magazine. Let me see, can you access this without a subscription? Unfortunately you can’t, welcome to the new world of haves and have-nots, you thought information was gonna be free forever, but it’s not, you’re gonna pay if you want […]