We’re starved for new talent. I know, that sounds ridiculous, with more talent available all the time, we’re overloaded. Yet as a result of the tyranny of choice, we all turn to quality, which there is very little of. And what we’re really looking for is quality that transcends the niches, something everybody can cotton […]

You won’t watch this. That’s the hardest thing to do these days, to get someone to experience your art, your production, your work. They just don’t have the time, their most precious asset. You think it’s a minor inconvenience, but it’s not. It’s a privilege. You must beg for attention. You might have to even […]

This is hysterical! My inbox is blowing up! I don’t get anywhere near this amount of response when I write about music. As George Drakoulias said to me on the Staples Center floor, he used to argue about records, not anymore. How did the cultural zeitgeist switch so much? Did music let us down or […]

It’s not going to hurt Netflix. Netflix is too big, too desirable, too embedded in people’s lives to be abandoned, to be canceled. In this way it’s like Amazon or Walmart or Facebook. We constantly hear about their deleterious effects, boycotts are initiated, but the enterprise is just too good, it fulfills a need that […]