This kills me… about artists, licensing, royalties, etc. see attached. I have always been so curious about music as art, IE a personal compulsion that creates it vs desire to make money and be (more…)
I am not so sure Sting knows how to clap?
Saw this Bruce Springsteen this weekend: Apparently Sting has no idea how to clap: Oh it is a thing. http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/sting-has-no-idea-how-to-clap#.oy83R12MR Well, (more…)
I also heard you like art.
What a nice start to the year. Talking with friends, and being completely zoned out on conference calls looking at my favorite art. How fun! Here’s some stuff I quite enjoy. I know no one reads this, (more…)
I heard you liked blog posts. Here are some of mine to start the year.
So, since I just had my friend update this blog, and you can actually read it on more than a 1987 monochrome screen, I thought I would compile a bunch of some of my past faves that might get your mind (more…)
112,000,000 extremist radicals are out there, waiting.
If a single human was mentally deranged enough to kill for their psychotic and unhinged interpretation of reality, we would call them insane, right? Why does religion get the veil of protection from the (more…)
CRISPR, Bioethics, Gene Editing and the Brave New World
We’re not there yet, but Carl Zimmer was on City Arts and Lecture last night, and he said we are going to have to wrestle with significant bioethical concerns, sooner than not. It will only be (more…)
Anti-GMO is incredibly unscientific, based in opinion with no facts.
I have always been really cued into the public discussions that include a lot of opinion versus fact, etc. I am a huge skeptic, and big “science can save us from ourselves” guy. I am certainly not aggro (more…)
The Cure, “I hate Rock & Roll”, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, and a moment of music history.
Robert Smith sound checked with The Cure, 17 October 1980, in Amsterdam. He named the beginning of the check “I Hate Rock n Roll”, which then led into “The Holy Hour”, which Robert dedicated to Ian Curtis (more…)
If Uber isn’t an example of the bubble… not sure what is. How is this the most highly valued transportation company?
Joe Rogan has a joke about “not boycotting things because I don’t take stuff that seriously”. Normally, I totally agree… what difference can I make? This isn’t about making a difference. It’s just how (more…)