Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Greetings from Vail, Colorado, where the world’s elite bicycle racers are engaged in a time trial from the Village to the top of the Pass. And you don’t care. But so many do. European sports are invading America. With football challenged by head injuries and baseball the land of drug-addled stars the passive life of […]

You Wanna Own It

That’s what’s wrong with today’s marketing, it doesn’t allow for percolation, it doesn’t allow for growth, it believes the instant smash is more powerful than the long term build, that if everybody knows your name right away you’ve made it, when just the opposite is true. I can’t get over “House Of Cards.” I live […]

Quotes

“Life is like that. There’s always more, always a reveal.” Cheryl Strayed I contemplate suicide now and again. Not as much as I used to, in college, back before people knew how dangerous higher education was and a safety net/mental health infrastructure was required, and the decade thereafter, when I was trying to find myself […]

Longform Journalism

Did you read the “New York Times” story on the avalanche? Snow Fall – The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek Actually, you don’t read it as much as experience it. It’s not only words, but images. And it deals with the basic issues of human life…risk, camaraderie and death. Should we do it or not? Will […]