iNCREDIBLE iNSTANCES of iPOD SynchroniCITY ( Read more... )

How many songs total? 2594 ( Read more... )

One of the consequences of my participation in Artist's Way is a crisis of utility vis a vis this here journal ( Read more... )

Do you want to know how clever I am ( Read more... )

I feel I should clarify: as painful as it is (it's only one damn week, but so was the Bataan Death March), there is much to be gained from a media fast ( Read more... )

So, I haven't died or anything ( Read more... )

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Rock 'n' Roll is a spirit, a particularly American (and African-American) electricity that is endlessly renewing and accessible to all.

Rock, as covered at length in Bernard Gendron's Between Montmartre & the Mudd Club, is what happened when Rock 'n' Roll self-consciously aspired to be Art, while at the same time underwent a calcification in ( Read more... )

This Naomi Klein interview has teeth, bro. In addition to calling Kerry's campaign "morally bankrupt," she calls him out (along with everyone who voted for him, including probably herself) for conducting the election and the whole campaign in bad faith ( Read more... )

Naomi Klein, on Why Bush won"The Democrats didn't fully understand that the success of Karl Rove's party is really a success in branding. Identity branding is something that the corporate world has understood for some time now. They're not selling a product; they're selling a desired identity, an aspirational identity of the people who consume ( Read more... )

Are corporations bad?

Like, all of them, from the get-go?

If so, what would happen if they went away, if Buy Nothing Day or Not One Damn Dime Day actually DID bring about the collapse of consumer corporate culture?