The Moose loves the semicolon and enjoys using the ellipsis… Now New Yorkers can enjoy the correct use of a semicolon on a transit system poster written by a bureaucrat with good grammar skills.
Law professor Lawrence Lessig’s pioneering book on copyright law and intellectual property rights, The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001), is now appropriately, freely available online: “After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download [...]
I love it when bands “cross over” from what seems to be hometown obscurity to a much higher profile. When I first came across Black Kids I was certain it wouldn’t take long for the pundits to jump on their particularly fancy bandwagon. Their blend of early new wave, electro and fine backbeats mixed with [...]
James Brown, the self-titled “Hardest Working Man in Show Business”, upon his death left behind the greatest of legacies; as Wikipedia puts it - “James Brown’s career spanned over decades, and his sound and beat profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moves on a continuum from blues and gospel-based forms and [...]
We all have opinions, where do they come from? Who knows but Italian TV wanted to know, but if you’re working in the studio in London at 4AM not looking your best because you’re jet lagged, exhausted and out of shape is it fair that a TV crew arrives to capture you in all your [...]
“I’m in a boozer where they’re drinking fast, I’m in a movie with the middle class”
Ok, version 2 sounds like a song that’s coming together…… loneliness, alienation, “I don’t fit in,” “I have no friends,” avatar, bored…. or not.
Gang of Four - Second Life (Version 2 demo) [MP3]
Related Post: The first version of Second [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the wit of a British music critic. Sunday’s issue of the Independent newspaper ran a review by Simon Price which I’ve posted below as a fine example of what I would have always expected to read when I lived in London. It’s an example [...]
Hi, nothing happened today….but you should write about it
Billboard reports that Radiohead is #1 on the Billboard chart with “only” 122,000 albums sold, of course they then remember that Radiohead has been giving away the album and also selling it direct to fans since last October. Billboard also reports that Radiohead is touring the USA, [...]