I recently gave a friend some advice that I realized I wasn’t following myself.
I suggested that he start a writer’s journal. I used to keep one when I was
in a creative writing class in high school. I liked it
and it was helpful at the time, so I told him he ought to do the same. [...]
Whether we conform to them or rebel against them we’re all, in some ways, defined by our commitments. Family, work, and rent are some of the basic ones, but there are millions. Generally people think of commitments defining them in a negative way, living for the weekend, being tied to a horrible mortgage [...]
I had planned to bring you most of the performances from the North and Clark dinner, but we had an audio video meltdown at the last minute. Luckily, my buddy Chris recorded a couple songs on his phone. The video quality leaves something to be desired but the music is what I really care about.
This [...]
Last week I outlined some rough ideas for generating more money for the CTA, this week I take those ideas more in depth.
Coinstar and the CTA Card
Coinstar is a great partner to grocery stores. They have machines that take change and (for a small percentage) return paper bills. It’s a device with low upkeep costs [...]
Chicago needs the CTA. A big part of what is good about this city has to do with how much of the city is always within reach. Besides the grid and size of the streets there is nothing that has as much to do with that as the public transportation. The city’s economy depends heavily [...]
The World Cup is being drawn right now. There has been much fuss about rankings and groups, so I decided to make my own rankings. Admittedly, I am just a casual fan, and I know a good deal more about the top ten and those teams that play here in the Americas than the bottom [...]
People love to talk about the democratizing power of the internet. They tell us that less expensive distribution and production, means more people can make music. We also heard that as the internet becomes more important than the radio we are coming to a time where everybody gets to vote.
The problem is nobody votes.
There are [...]
The Economist recently did an interview with record executive Roger Faxon (Head of EMI music publishing), it fascinated me and it got me thinking about the future of music.
Music is not an object
For years music has been made into an object. There was a time when we wanted music to be an object–like a CD. [...]
