September 2008
84 posts
The slow death of capitalism
I’ve been watching a hell of a lot of 24-hour news channels recently, thanks to the aforementioned exciting event.
No matter how little actually happens (old white guys sat around talking about huge numbers), they always seem to have something to say. It never ends.
I swear, when the end-of-days eventually comes all that will remain are cockroaches and Peter Sissons.
REM - It’s The End Of The World As We Know...
End of the world
Up until very recently, I was considering buying shares in UK media company ITV. They seemed bargainously cheap because of general TV-industry problems, plus the wider economic situation, and as they’re a hugely established British brand, I was pretty confident they’d bounce back up.
But given the events of the past few days (esp. this afternoon) I now think SCREW THAT. If I’m...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Four Tet
guardian.co.uk
BBC 6 Music
Aphex Twin
Talking Heads
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
"If it's not Hershey's, it must be drugs!" →
A Canadian couple who live on a natural/raw diet were arrested and interrogated for “smuggling” raw, homemade chocolate. Because that, of course, is the real threat to our society.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to...”
– Charles de Gaulle
BBC: 'Car sleepers' the new American homeless →
Amongst all this talk of bailouts and Wall St., it’s easy to forget the sad human cost of the housing/economic crisis.
“Uncertain times, frozen liquidity, political change and poor astrological...”
– Seth Godin
Devo - I Can’t Get No Satisfaction (via...
Muxtape returns... →
…as a Myspace clone. Disappointing. Especially on the day the new Myspace Music is released.
(I recognise I may be speaking too soon, so I withhold proper judgement until I’ve seen the new site. But it doesn’t sound too exciting so far.)
iTunes Lite?
fatmanatee says:
My computer’s 3 years old, but even my rickety Dell could deal with Winamp and other apps at the same time. […]
“Necessity’s the mother of invention” (so sez Socrates) and the necessities of using a knackered computer have caused Fat Manatee to think of this. I reckon it’s a goer - surely Apple would like to corner the music player part of the...
“We understand that anything that lets you perform better is worth it: fully...”
– Tipjoy sounds like a good place to work
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus,...
Pursehouse wrote this intro to the latest Sentric Music newsletter. It made me laugh.
As the MCPS/PRS Reports that “around £2.5bn of music industry revenue is under threat if the economy moves into recession” here in the Sentric Office we’ve been cutting down on our luxuries that we’ve become ever so used to in order to save a bit of cash. Casualties include the South American bat dropping...
Missing Tweets
faketwitterstatus says:
Read the TOS you morons; once you tweet it, we can do whatever the hell we want with it.
[…]
Suckers.
Added a Streampad bar to my tumblelog... →
…after seeing one on Fred Wilson’s site. Sits neatly at the bottom and allows easy access to all the music I’ve posted on Tumblr. Cool!
Brilliant new Nintendo advert →
More than meets the eye - I won’t give away the surprise!
Sonic Youth - Superstar
Loving this Carpenters...
Beastie Boys - Putting Shame In Your Game (via...
Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten will appear in... →
WTF?
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher
The last thing I am is a Thatcherite, but this quote was quite pertinent today to an office conversation about “coolness”.
Be careful, kids →
10 percent of admissions officers from prestigious colleges said they looked at applicants’ Myspace/Facebook profiles.
Of those 38 percent said it had a “negative impact” on the applicant.
“Normally innocuous words such as ‘Game’, ‘Medals’,...”
– The Observer: warning to advertisers on 2012 cash-in
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
The Isley Brothers
Jackie Wilson
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
1990’s
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Artists Paid →
Great Tumblr-powered tumblelog about the music biz that I thought would be worth pointing out for those of you that aren’t already clued in to it.
Thanks too to Artists Paid for regularly reblogging some of my music-and-new-media type posts, much appreciated :-)
Open² - CC music on Opentape →
opentape says:
Jonathan Deamer collected some cool CC-licensed tunes and loaded them into Opentape. Cool!
Thanks for pointing out my latest nerd project, Opentape guys! Been meaning to blog about it.
“Open music on an open platform”, featuring Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Nine Inch Nails, Chuck D. All legal and available for free download, under a wonderful Creative Commons licence.
Jonathan is mildy amused that Manchester United... →
On job hunting
Sophie says: if i see the words 'media sales' again i'm going to flip
Sophie says: *flips*
Pauly says: are you going to sell medias?
Pauly says: how does one do that?
Sophie says: i've got a tv for sale
Sophie says: like that
Pauly says: wow
Pauly says: you're good at that!
Sophie says: yeh
Pauly says: I've got some old copies of the guardian going on ebay
Sophie says: you're getting it now
Pauly says: ah
Pauly says: no
Pauly says: that's media resale
Pauly says: ok
Pauly says: I'm going to use some old copies of the radio times
Pauly says: I'm going to sew them all together and strap them to a framework which I will use to propell my boat
Sophie says: Media sails?
“Technology becomes socially interesting only once it has become technologically...”
– Clay Shirky
Lehman Brothers staff "might even be liable for... →
BUMMER.
