July242008
I bought it and it was forty nine cents well spent.
Sounds like Paul Westerberg has been hanging out in the basement again. Which means, thankfully, he finally went back to work.
After another four-year hiatus partially brought on by a screwdriver-to-hand injury two years ago, the Replacements frontman quietly issued a new album this past weekend. He’s not really billing it as an album, though. Instead, it’s being sold as a single-track download for 49 cents via his website (via Amazon.com).
What’s more, there are no song titles on it, no record label behind it and no explanation. Just a hand-scrawled CD cover with the words, “49:00 … of Your Time/Life.” More weirdness: It actually clocks in at 43:55 and comes up as “Bling Bling” by Mac Carter if you load it into your iTunes.
July202008
I was reading a story about the greatest guitarists and one name that I had not heard before was Terry Kath from the band Chicago. He had one of the strangest deaths I’ve ever heard of.
Around 5 p.m., late afternoon of January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie Don Johnson’s home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath — being a gun enthusiast — took a .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Picking up a semiautomatic 9mm pistol, Kath put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, infamously saying, “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.” (After showing the empty magazine to his friend.) However, one bullet remained in the chamber, killing him instantly — a week shy of his 32nd birthday. The circumstances of his death gave him the dubious distinction of being one of the first celebrities to be nominated for a Darwin Award.[5]
8PM
Count me among those that was never wild about the Maggette move to begin with. Give me the scrappy underdog willing to do what it takes over the overhyped guy from Duke any day.
I’m going to miss Barry. Was more effective than Finley during the playoffs and was just a good dude. Good luck to Bones in Houston.
July92008
Good Article on why Mad Men is Awesome
One of my first bosses taught me an important lesson.
Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the solution.
“But if the work is good, don’t the clients know it when they see it?” I asked.
My boss just looked at me silently for a long time. And then, with gentleness and no small amount of pity, he reached out and patted me on the head: Poor kid.
He was right, of course. In any creative activity where clients are involved, you have to make the sale twice. Before you get to the customer, you have to sell the client.
From “Mad Men: Pitch Perfect”
