Today’s Raleigh newspaper has an amusing article on a marketing problem–bands would rather starve than have their music used to sell a Hummer. Reasons are multiple. Bands don’t want their music associated with the Hummer’s military heritage. Bands don’t want their music associated with a vehicle that gets gallons to the mile. This amuses me.Continue reading “On the Hummer”
Tag Archives: Music
On the Songs I Love
Stolen shamelessly from Bill Leisner: Favorite Beatles song: “In My Life” Favorite solo Beatles song by John Lennon: “#9 Dream” Favorite solo Beatles song by Paul McCartney: “Live and Let Die” Favorite solo Beatles song by George Harrison: “What Is Life?” Favorite solo Beatles song by Ringo Starr: “Photograph” Favorite Rolling Stones song: “Paint itContinue reading “On the Songs I Love”
On the new Oasis album
Oasis released their first CD in three years today, Don’t Believe the Truth. I’ve listened to it twice now. I’m not taken with it. And I’ll be damned if I could really explain why. The music is okay, but not catchy. What it sounds like is a Beatles tribute band, only moreso. And yes, IContinue reading “On the new Oasis album”
On Running Out of Space
I thought it would never happen. Even Vizzini would say, “Inconceivable!” I ran out of space on the XBox hard drive today. For four years now I’ve told customers that they will never need to worry about saving their games–the XBox has an eight-gig hard drive and games save to it automatically, not to mentionContinue reading “On Running Out of Space”
E-mail woes
Well, that was fun. Yesterday morning my e-mail program, The Bat, locked up, giving me the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. I had downloaded on Thursday the latest upgrade and installed it over my current version. Through Thursday and Friday everything was fine. But not Saturday. Note to self: Leave well enough alone. If itContinue reading “E-mail woes”
New Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, released recently through McSweeney’s Books a book entitled simply Songbook. This is, like Fever Pitch, strictly non-fiction, a look at some of the songs that Hornby, a former music critic, enjoys, and includes a CD of several of the songs essayed in the book. JustContinue reading “New Nick Hornby”