The title promises more than the track delivers. The beat’s too big to be electronic — it’s like an adrenalized Bobby Digital. Music that thick doesn’t sound right to me unless there’s a sense of real muscle going into it. And there’s no thirst in the vocals. I loved Mos Def, the fighter for consciousness in hip hop; Mos Def [...]
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So I finally started watching The Wire. Went out and rented the first three DVD’s on Monday. I’m about to watch the tenth episode now. I’m ridiculous-addicted — living in Wire World. This is why I’m not writing as much as last week — which is maybe a good thing: one obsession displaces another. I’m normally cynical about almost [...]
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Remember after 9/11 when George W. Bush said everyone should go shopping — “or the terrorists will win”? But wasn’t the economy supposed to have receded anyways, without the terrorist attack? There was the super-hyped dotcom bubble and then Enron and the accounting blowup. Things needed to cool down. Then the attack happened, the reactions of Bush [...]
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As I write this I’m watching this conversation, part of Harvard Business School’s centennial celebration, with John Doerr, Jeffrey Immelt, James Wolfensohn, Meg Whitman, and Anand Mahindra. To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting much, but it turned out to be pretty interesting and insightful. At the very least it’s refreshing to see top business leaders referring directly [...]
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He’s been contributing opinion columns to the National Post, the paper he built out of the Financial Post to compete with the Globe and Mail. Today Conrad Black has a piece about FDR in the pages of the paper he once played against. He does know how to be dramatic: On Inauguration Day, 1933 (then March 4), there were machine-gun nests at the corners of [...]
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ReadWriteWeb has a post about platforms like Facebook, OpenSocial and Flock letting us down: Our culture of sensation and free makes it much harder for platforms to think deeply and be disciplined. Google felt they had to come out with something to stop Facebook’s momentum. Facebook rushed to create a completely open infrastructure; and it [...]
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Saw this post at Creative Class about when people are most creative and I felt like commenting. Night owls of the worlds unite: The most creative time of day is actually at night – 10:04 p.m. to be exact, according to a survey of 1,426 people (h/t: Kevin Stolarick). The least creative time is 4:33 p.m. [...]
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There’s a good article in The Atlantic by Steven Pinker about swearing on TV. Here’s what the man says: I noted that over time, taboo words relinquish their literal meanings and retain only a coloring of emotion, and then just an ability to arouse attention. This progression explains why many speakers are unaware that sucker, sucks, [...]
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Miles Remixed by the Apple Juice Kid, also featuring some real players and vocalists. Available for free download. Hats off to Okayplayer and Illroots. I can’t help wondering what Miles would’ve thought (and done) ProTools…
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Rolling Stone‘s star political columnist has a new blog. Here and here he wades into the finance crisis, demonstrating (as if it was necessary) why Rolling Stone is the very last publication you should read for anything other than music and pictures of famous people: The reason I thought it necessary to even write about this at [...]
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Just as there are benefits of appreciating our economic situation in terms of a long-run historical perspective, it’s also wise to appreciate our economic situation as just one aspect of our whole political situation. I’ve been thinking about this in light of recent events and reading parts of Tony Judt’s latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten [...]
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Yesterday I dealt briefly with the long- vs. short-run looking forward. Today I want to deal with the long- vs. short-run looking back. We are always in a zone of imperfect visability so far as the history just over our shoulder is concerned. It is as if we were in the hollow of the historical [...]
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