“I was on a panel at Bandwith Conference last week and the ‘Who is going to play The Staples Center in five years?’ question came up again. I answered (again), ‘Who the fuck wants to see a show at The Staples Center?’” — Ian Rogers
“As much as the RIAA might like to think they can sue everyone to stop piracy, and as much as we all might like to think we are good people who would never steal music, neither positions reflect reality.” —
Venture Beat (via betaworks)
So a few weeks ago I got this take down notice from some group purporting to represent Van Morrison; they objected to the fact that I put the track “Astral Weeks” up on this site, they claimed it was pirated. Whatever, I’ve owned so many copies of that album calling me a pirate is a compliment at this point. The notice was nice enough, and it did remind me I could go out and buy Van’s new album Keep It Simple. Indeed. Not worth the hassle, so I took the song down. Big fucking deal.
But in this loser take all environment, I am reminded of the line from Astral Weeks which led me to play the song anyway.
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
“there’s a five hour layover at jfk in nyc so my buddy juan rosenfelder drives to the ‘port and takes me to brooklyn to have some righteous pizza at di fara’s on 15th and j. this is some fucking happening peetz! I get just cheese and ‘shrooms but there’s lots of olive oil too - no grease though! this is a fucking fine shovel.” —
Mike Watt on Di Fara Pizza (via machinetext)
quote of the year: “fucking fine shovel”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17) -
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“You see so many rock bands in the studio and it’s serious, serious business. They got the making-of camera up their ass the whole time and they’re on the BlackBerry the other half of the time. I just think that we all need to remember how to have fun.” — Ben Folds