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The International

The International I don’t know how this thing works, BUT BOY DOES IT SOUND GOOD! Remember 1976… Scratch that, you probably weren’t even alive back then. But not only was it the bicentennial year, the preoccupation of young males was the stereo shop. Saturday afternoons, nights alone with your magazines, you’d contemplate all the stereo […]

Seinfeld On Stern

“Pop-Tarts…they can’t go stale because they were never fresh!” Long form entertainment, it’s the wave of the future. Huh? Don’t we live in the short attention span era? WRONG! Ignore everything said by anybody who proffers this theory. Ever see a kid play video games? You can’t tear him away. The truth is we all […]

Blurred Lines Explicit Version

Blurred Lines Explicit Version What stuns me is there are only 468,309 views. In other words, virality is still in the offing. You see the clothed version: Blurred Lines Clothed Version Has 63,798,395 views as of this writing. And the track, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” is sitting at number one on the iTunes chart, as […]

Guidance

DON’T STRIVE FOR UBIQUITY We no longer live in a monoculture, we no longer all watch MTV and listen to the same radio station, so don’t plot your career like we’re all still living in the pre-Internet era. PUBLICITY IS OVERRATED You may feel good that there’s a story about you in the newspaper, but […]