Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Modern Marketing

How come it took five years for the public to turn on President Bush?  Could it be that people are just that religious, or just that dumb, or could it be that they just didn’t HEAR WHAT WAS GOING ON! The left doesn’t get it.  The tax cuts.  The lack of WMDs.  Finally Katrina.  What […]

The XM Lawsuit

I wasn’t previously a believer, but I’m coming around to the viewpoint that Mel Karmazin is a BRILLIANT businessman. Sirius launched after XM. Reception of its signal is problematic. The sound, to my ears, is clearly inferior to XM’s. Yet not only has Sirius stolen XM’s thunder, a betting man would say that it’s going […]

Lala.com

Ever notice that everybody’s a scumbag? I guess the reason you die at seventy is because you’ve seen the movie.  You realize that America is a scam.  Full of slimy hucksters out to make a buck.  Shit, you’d think with all the religious zealotry in the States these days we’d have a kinder, gentler nation.  […]

The Warner Movie

Thomas H. Lee is the star of this movie. It’s all about the nineties.  And the year of the apocalypse, 2000. Somehow, someway, the public lost sight of reality in the last decade of the twentieth century.  All investing principles went out the window.  It was no longer about fundamentals.  Profits to earnings ratios were […]