Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


XM/Sirius

You want satellite radio to be successful.  And when it becomes so, you’re going to bitch. I love a good argument.  I like debating the merits of different media, different TV shows and music.  Hell, that was the domain of the fan, passionate discussion.  But if you’re still arguing about talent, about quality, I’m wondering […]

Everybody Knows

Funny how the most legendary tracks are never hits.  Not singles played on the radio, but album cuts that seep into the consciousness, never mentioned by the hoi polloi, but celebrated by the cognoscenti.  Like Leonard Cohen’s "Everybody Knows". What does everybody know? Everybody knows radio sucks.  Everybody knows MTV plays no videos.  Everybody knows […]

HD

Vinyl is our HD. I was just sitting on the toilet, perusing the newspapers before I left the house for a doctor’s appointment, and I came across an ad for Panasonic Viera HDTVs.  And I started to wonder.  As the image gets better and better, why does the sound get worse and worse? Do we […]

Epic Pass

So far this season, I’ve spent $1,777 dollars to ski at Vail. In retrospect, I could have purchased an unrestricted season pass for almost the same price, but I didn’t know if I’d be here that much, I didn’t want to leave cash on the table. But it’s been an epic season, and I’m not […]