So I’m trying to clean out my bloglines account of all the various posts that I’ve saved for later. I did an initial hack and slash earlier today and got rid of most of it, but I saved a couple of posts that I really wanted to mention, so here they are, First up, we [...]
Last week I was in Borders and picked up a copy of Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy. For those unfamiliar with the book, it is possibly the most widely read introduction to western philosophy in print. I started reading the book yesterday and came across the below quote in an early section talking [...]
Wrock artist, Roonil Wazlib posted an interesting entry on her blog questioning the proliferation of Wrock songs on myspace that are not set up to be downloaded. The resulting discussion has proven to be pretty interesting. I’ve already talked about my feelings on the issue near the end of this post. There was a comment [...]
Artist: Jawbreaker Song: Tour Song Album: Bivouac (lyrics) Last week Shael Riley started a thread over on Rhymetorrents asking for financial advice from mc chris. The thread eventually dissolved into the typical stupid infighting bullshit that plagues Rhymetorrents, so I didn’t bother reading all of it, but the idea did stick in my head. While [...]
Jesse Jarnow posted an old review today that was never published by the magazine he’d sent it to. The review is of the Dave Matthews Band performance in Central Park a couple of years ago. As I was reading it I was struck by the following quote about the fans who were waiting to get [...]