Unsatisfied with playing an instrument, David Byrne resorts to playing a building.
JEFF GIDDENS
Jul 02
Jun 30
“ Since marketing no longer means dealing with independent radio promoters, radio stations, and music video television stations for play and instead means building real, trust-based relationships with fans directly, there’s no efficiency in marketing Robbie Williams today and Iron Maiden tomorrow. You’re lacking the focus a Vagrant or Victory (or closer to my heart, Dischord or from the “wildly profitable” category, Jive in its late 90s heyday) who are more or less going back to the same group of fans with each release. Hell, Vagrant even spun off two new labels, one for kids and one for heavier music. They’re focusing on what they know and segmenting their marketing efforts by affinity group.
Jun 24
First time I had seen a sign preventing TEXTING in a school zone.
Jun 19
Matt Mahaffey covers Back In Black, on drums and Omnichord, BY HIMSELF.
Jun 18
Adapted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story - with concepts like this out there, why are movies like Indiana Jones FOUR and the Happening being made?
Jun 17
how to nap via cache.boston.com
Jun 09
Southwest Forever.
I would like to ask my friends to remind me never to fly American Airlines again. We have all seen how they hate their customers in the past two weeks with the $35 charge for a second bag, and I have just been subject to another policy of theirs that shows disdain for their loyal customers - the $150 change fee, regardless. Granted, I have no one to blame but myself, for I willingly booked a flight with them. I won’t ever do that, ever again, even if they are the cheapest.
There is no reason that changing a flight to an earlier date should cost a dollar. Last fall, I was in El Campo, TX, flying to Los Angeles. I had a late-night suicide drive to Dallas to make my 6 am flight, when I realized I was only 2 hours from Austin, and through their website, I changed my flight less than 12 hours before it left, and GOT MONEY BACK since the new flight was cheaper.
However, here I find myself more than a month away from a flight trying to change it, and there are 300 dollars in fees for doing so (for two tickets). Never again, American. Never. Ever.
Ever.
Thinking further, I can’t decide if this is American, since we are built on capitalism, and everyone should be trying to make a profit all the time, or unAmerican, since, you know, its a free country and all that stuff. Just trying to decide if they live up to their name or not.
Jun 07
something I learned today - a new word -
Melisma, in music, is the technique of changing the note (pitch) of a single syllable of text while it is being sung. Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, where each syllable of text is matched to a single note.
Alicia Keys has made a career out of his, as has Mariah Carey. Probably the most famous use of melisma is in the Christmas tune “Angels We Have Heard on High”, on the word Gloria.
very interesting.
i have nothing to complain about.
Jun 03
me and nozah, watching some telly
me and nozah, watching some telly part 2
May 24
» The Avett Brothers: Beyond Blood : NPR Music
Whether they are thrashing or singing ballads, its all beautiful
May 20
totally brutal - rarely see this on television.
Unreal, some people have no clue. No wonder Clinton won by a landslide in WV.
May 15
» McCain Sees Troops Coming Home by 2013
I am glad that McCain only thinks it will take 5 more years of senseless violence and innocent deaths before the Iraq War is properly wrapped up. I wonder if he will be alive in 5 years.