It’s about tomorrow. Could Apple Computer be any hotter?  Shouldn’t it scale down development and return value to its shareholders?  Isn’t that the goal of a corporation, to deliver for shareholders TODAY? No, the goal of a corporation is to deliver value for shareholders LONG TERM! Dick Parsons didn’t believe in the music business.  Bertelsmann […]

Is anybody going to care about "X&Y" next year at this time? I doubt it.  You see everything mainstream dies a quick commercial death.  That which is overhyped and overexposed better be sold quickly, because the media and the people just can’t stand to pay attention.  Look at it this way…do you care that Mark […]

Holy FUCK!  Did you watch Steve Jobs’ presentation at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference?? It’s 1981 all over again.  MTV was seen as a sideshow.  A marginal effort reaching few homes that wouldn’t impact the mainstream music business. But that thesis was WRONG!  MTV REVOLUTIONIZED the music business.  But in order to play, you had to […]

Blake already has Coldplay.  And the Foo Fighters.  And the Black Eyed Peas.  He got them from Torrent sites.  And Websites.  That I’m sure the RIAA has never even HEARD of.  Shit, I hadn’t.  That’s why I brought Blake along.  To be my DECODER RING!  To explain what I was seeing at the Shrine. And […]