It was hot in Beverly Hills this afternoon. I’d gone to the Polo Lounge to have lunch with Ellis Rich, Chairman of the PRS.  As we discussed the minimum YouTube royalty, two gentlemen got up from their table and started walking towards us.  I immediately recognized Terry Semel, late of Yahoo, formerly of Warner Brothers, […]

I just finished a book entitled "The Talent Code". It’s not much different from "Outliers".  It references the same 10,000 hours for greatness.  But there’s a bit of science, illustrating that it’s all about the formation of myelin on your nerves via "deep practice".  The more myelin, the more skill.  Deep practice is about breaking […]

1 Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints "A Case Of You" I’m trying to read a new book about Joni Mitchell.  Littered with interesting facts, Michelle Mercer’s "Will You Take Me As I Am" ultimately reads like a senior thesis, all analysis and no soul.  And that’s the […]

Have you watched this movie on HBO? I was flipping through the On Demand opportunities when I stumbled upon it.  I’d read a review, it stated that Muhammad Ali was an asshole, that Joe Frazier had been mislabeled.  I had an urge to see it.  But can you convince a woman to watch a boxing […]