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I spent last night listening to the Spotify Top 100. Well, most of it anyway. You learn some amazing things, like most rap lyrics are so aspirational and so dumb that unless you buy in, cast all critical faculties aside, you listen and you laugh. I woke up in a new Bugatti Do you even […]

Then/Now

THEN You asked for directions. NOW You ask for the address. THEN You talked on the phone. NOW You text on the phone. THEN If you were lucky, your parents bought you your own extension when you were sixteen, possibly a Princess phone! NOW You get your own phone with its own line when you’re […]

Jay-Z/Samsung

Who’s the winner here? SAMSUNG! I know, I know, it’s part of the hip-hop ethos, to stick it to the man, to take him for everything he’s worth, laughing all the while, and this is all very well done, Jay-Z appears thoughtful, one can argue he maintains his credibility…just one thing, it no longer matters […]

Reviews Don’t Matter

The most shocking thing I saw today is Jimmy Iovine without his baseball cap. And I say this in a good way. Because if Jimmy can own who he is, after playing at being young for so many decades, denying his hair loss, then maybe he can impart this honesty to his acts, implore them […]