this is a few weeks old… (Taken with instagram)
Church Framed By America (Taken with instagram)
The Great Abstraction: The "Music Like Water" Fallacy
Portland multi-instrumentalist Gavin Castleton writes eloquently on the issues at hand for independent artists in the wake of Spotify and similar streaming services.
In 2002 David Bowie said, “Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity.” In early 2005, Berklee VP David Kusek and “futurist” Gerd Leonhard based their book The Future of Music on the concept of “Music Like Water,” i.e. the transformation of the music industry…
Terry and Stephen
npr:
Terry Gross was on The Colbert Report last night. If you missed it, you can watch the video here. Also, here’s a list of the interviews Stephen mentioned during their chat:
TG on Steven Colbert. Apparently this became a trending topic last night…
erik friedlander: ..looking back and looking ahead
As many of you know I lost my wife this past November. She died after a rough year of cancer treatments due to a recurrence of breast cancer. I started my mourning the day she died by heaving a huge breath, a sigh of relief, Lynn’s struggle was over. It’s not easy for a 54 year old person to die…
McSweeney’s man-crush stenographic novelist
(provided by notanotherrob)I admit I picked this because I don’t entirely know what these words mean in this combination, but I am intrigued.
Thanks to everyone who submitted; we’ll do this again some time.
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