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syd.: If Bob Lefsetz Isn't Listening, Who Is? →
sydmusic:
(Written late last night, April 5, 2012)
I had what counts as a great day in the music business today. Records I’ve worked on are coming out better than I dreamed, my band’s summer tour is coming together and I have been re-energized by my recent vacation.
Today our little record label found…
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless,
add what is specifically your...”
– Bruce Lee
March 2012
8 posts
New favorite Billy Collins poem, "Breathless."
Breathless
Some like the mountains, some like the seashore,
Jean-Paul Belmondo says
to the camera in the opening scene.
Some like to sleep face up,
some like to sleep on their stomachs,
I am thinking here in bed-
some like to take the shape of murder victims
flat on their backs all night,
other float face down in the waters.
Then there are those like me
who prefer to sleep on their...
“Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly...”
– William Gibson, Idoru
“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to...”
– William Gibson
“Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.”
– William Gibson
“I think I’d probably tell you that it’s easier to desire and pursue...”
– ― William Gibson, Idoru
“The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.”
– ― William Gibson
February 2012
25 posts
"The Sad Irony of Selfishness," by Seth Godin
I read this blog today and it reminded me how I wish in the music industry that we were more selfless and giving with each other. I wonder what that would look like..?
Read The Sad Irony of Selfishness.
You, Reader
I wonder how you are going to feel
when you find out
that I wrote this instead of you
that it was I who got up early
to sit in the kitchen
and mention with a pen
the rain-soaked windows,
the ivy wallpaper,
and the goldfish circling in its bowl
Go ahead and turn aside,
bite your lip and tear out the page,
but, listen-it was just a matter of time
before one of us happened
to notice...
