While sitting on that damp and dirty F train, on my way to work, I dug into my black bag and pulled out the Shure SE310 earphones, plugged them into my little iPod, scrolled around for a bit, found what I was…
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To tell the truth, I didn't want to come into the office today. Amazing, I know. And it didn't have all to do with the rain and the wind and the unusually cool June air, though those were factors. Mostly, it had to do with a hummingbird. I wanted to stay home and strum the guitar in tune with all those sounds that were happening outside. But I did the next best thing.
New York magazine asked Edward Glaeser to examine how profitable a variety of New York businesses might be. My favorite line: "Best ways to make money: Underpay writers."
Stephen Oppenheimer has traced the routes used by the few bands of protohomonids as they populated the world. This is a stunning piece of animation.
For starters, it could adopt House's dictum: Everybody lies.
"I don't understand it," I said to John. "With all of these people out there listening to their iPods, how is it that the entire city isn't dancing like mad?"
The question comes from my rather new experience of listening to music (in this case, Dinosaur Jr.'s latest, the messy and powerful Beyond) through an iPod using Shure SE310 earphones. I have to imagine that all of these men, women, and children, plugged into their iPods, are listening to music that moves them — music they love, or, at the very least, like. So, why am I the only guy out there fighting against flipping out like a…
"My room is insane! TINY! How is it even possible that I got a room without any view? A tiny stainless steel toilet. There is an incredibly thin mattress. If I didn't know I was in prison I'd think I was in an Ian Schrager hotel."
Mark Grief compares Walt Disney to Brian Wilson. It's not as big a stretch as you're thinking.
Tim Cavanaugh's op/ed piece on the James Joyce estate's recent settlement with Stanford prof Carol Loeb Shloss makes really good points about intellectual property in the 21st century.
Via Blog of a Bookslut.
After only a few hours of toying around with iTunes and the Red Wine Audio iMod, I can see that what's really being modified here — as much as any resistor or inductor or whatever — is my relationship with music.
And I like it. A lot.