Lewi wondered where the money was going to come from.  Diarmuid said that the winners used to pay for the losers at Warner Brothers, but now the extreme winners have gone indie and there’s not enough cash for R&D.  What a dilemma! Marty said all you had to do was release the equity in the […]

Fuck Facebook.  Mark Zuckerberg is a pompous, socially-impaired nitwit who has managed to connect a ton of people but not make any money. That’s what’s wrong with these Web hypes.  They’ve got very short shelf lives.  Because they just can’t make any money!  Wouldn’t it be cool to order an ice cream sandwich on the […]

When did I decide I hated Elvis Costello? Probably about the time the johnny-come-latelies started telling me how good "Spike" and the other Warner titles were.  Where was the sharp incisiveness of the vicious dude who threatened an audience member at the Whisky back in ’77?  The guy mellowed out, kept getting married and divorced […]

If George Harrison can go to court and lose, what makes Chris Martin and his team think they can win this one?  Especially with YouTube on Satriani’s side? It’s like sampling.  Clear the license.  Pay the man.  Coldplay could have paid Satriani and the world wouldn’t be the wiser.  How many people know the original […]