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Re: Question of the Week: Six Words

tomreeves — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:31:59 -0000

Dude goes what.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

tomreeves — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:21:01 -0000

Thanks for the blast of common sense. It's better than spewed nonsense.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

Mr. Poopypants — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:22:00 -0000

Tom - don't worry about faddah. He's part of the Twitter Generation. He flutters about from post to post and doesn't really read what he's responding to. Me thinks he might have ADD. A Twitter side-effect perhaps?

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

tomreeves — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:16:58 -0000

God did she abuse that poem, and possibility the entire canon of twentieth century American poetry.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

Keith Handy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:11:01 -0000

She started it. She was mean to poetry. Poetry couldn't defend itself, so FSJ stepped in.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

tomreeves — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:40:52 -0000

I am uncomfortable with the meanness, too. FSJ seems to be using more meanness and less humor lately.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

tomreeves — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:38:29 -0000

Are you saying that I'm a troll for writing something mildly critical of the quality of FSJ's last bit of parody? I assume that you don't think that FSJ is a troll. What is this post we are commenting about? High praise? Or do you want only agreeable people to post?

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

faddah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:33:50 -0000

nice try, troll. no one's linking to your blog. fergit it.

Re: Who says people in the Valley don't know anything about literature?

tomreeves — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:20:34 -0000

My comment only relates to this post by virtue of YouTube. I watched the Crunchie YouTube of your presentation. I posted that you had jumped the shark. You had some hellion e-mail bomb me. What's up with that? There is a modest accounting of it on my blog (pwnership.com).

Re: News flash: Grown man able to operate XO machine.

tomreeves — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:07:46 -0000

FSJ: You have jumped the shark. You're done.

Re: CNET on music: Right advice, wrong lessons

mathewi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:35:02 -0000

Sorry, Tom -- I'll try and knock it off :-)

No need to apologize for the link -- that's a good post.

Re: CNET on music: Right advice, wrong lessons

tomreeves — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:21:21 -0000

Would you please stop with the reasonable, insightful commentary that's fun to read? Your hogging it is all I'm saying.

I'd point out that the subtext is that labels should give the bands more of the revenues. Wishing it will never make it so. I commented on this on my blog, linking to this article.

So Radiohead tried out a different model. They wanted a different, and perhaps better alternative. They sure seemed successful.

Odds will always be stacked badly if your business model is 90% for you and 10% for me. Volume is a b***h if you are an obscure band with a small fan base.

Apologies for the link: http://pwnership.com/your-band-can-live-off-of-...

Re: What if everything was watermarked?

tomreeves — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:58:11 -0000

I linked to this article and also the YouTube video. And complemented the author. The juxtaposition of the Wired article and the discussion of the Amen break video is brilliant. I wish I had something more insightful to add, but both my football teams lost. I'm going to go sulk now.

Re: What if everything was watermarked?

mathewi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:50:01 -0000

Thanks a lot, Tom -- relevant links are always welcome.

Re: What if everything was watermarked?

tomreeves — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:38:17 -0000

Pardon me if you'd rather not have a link posted, but YouTube has a great video on the Amen brake. The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

I love your blog.

Re: Fiddling while the music industry burned

mathewi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:09:02 -0000

Thanks, Tom. I appreciate the comments.

Re: Fiddling while the music industry burned

tomreeves — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:55:40 -0000

Love the work you put on the blog. Thanks.

Re: Fiddling while the music industry burned

tomreeves — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:53:36 -0000

Thanks for the link to the Economist article. I also posted on it (pwnership.com), and linked to this blog. My thoughts are that yes, the labels ran their business horribly. That fact doesn't artists from abdicating the responsibility to change and adapt to the disintermediation cause by the internet.

It's simple to suggest, 'well if the record labels get torn apart, what's a poor little band to do?' That mindset isn't directly discussed, and perhaps should be.