Passion Pit – My new fav band. I especially like “Little Secrets”

• WTF Rolling Stone Magazine!!??
• Why Prince should reflect on all the praise for “Creep”

Work in progress. But finished up to this point to mark surviving 38 years.

• Sleepless in Seattle
• Sam2k9-01 b

While driving around Seattle last weekend I found myself close to Lakeview Cemetery. It sits on one of the hills here in Seattle close to Capital Hill and by the Seattle Asian Art Museum. One of the things I have always wanted to do here in Seattle is go see Bruce Lee’s grave. I’m not really sure why. I just felt compelled to do it. So as I was driving by I decided to pay a visit. It was a beautiful sunny day and I enjoyed walking among the grave stones, taking pictures of the interesting ones. I saw a couple from the early 1800’s that were almost completely worn away.

Here is more info about the grave site.

Google Maps:

• U r pike!
• The wall at the EMP

This is an image I created in the Fall of 2007, about 9 months before I started working for Pearl Jam. You can find evidence of it being created in the Fall of 2007 by going to my Zazzle Store. It has products with this image that are time-stamped with 9/27/2007. There is more evidence that this artwork was made in 2007 in my Imagekind Gallery, which shows art I created and is also time-stamped as having been last updated 10/06/2007, about 8 months before I started working with Pearl Jam in Seattle. And finally a third piece of evidence can be found in my publicly accessible Flickr Page, which is linked from this page and my Facebook profile. On this Flickr Page you can see the image and that it was taken on September 22, 2007 and uploaded on April 3, 2008 – a full month before I even had my first phone interview with Pearl Jam.

Now why am I bringing all of this up? I’m not going to say exactly. Sorry, you can read it in my memoirs when I’m dead. But I will say this, before I would accuse someone of something, I would do my homework first.

• Sleepless in Seattle
• Sam2k9-01 b

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• Your Sugarlips…
• Voodoo

I went to a meeting yesterday that was near where I live in Seattle. So I decided I would get a ride to the meeting with my coworker, leave my car at the office, and just go home from the meeting. He would give me a ride back to the office in the morning. I arrive at work this morning to find the driver’s window smashed. Nothing was in the car so nothing got stolen. The only thing it accomplished was busting my window and getting glass everywhere.

That’s never happened to me before in the entire 20 years I have been driving. I’m just very disappointed and it was really the last thing I need right now.

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Trent Reznor (nine inch nails) won the artist of the year webby award this year. Prince won this same award in 2006. I also won an additional Webby that same year for my work on Prince’s NPG Music Club and attended the ceremony in NYC with Prince. It was the crowning achievement for that 5 year project. Ironically it ended almost immediately after winning the Webby award and Prince’s innovative reputation on the web ended just as immediately.

I have a feeling that Trent Reznor is not about to end his experiments with the internet any time soon. He is an artist that is directly invested in using these tools to reach his audience in new and more direct ways that could only be afforded an artist in 2009 and beyond. Our culture is moving so fast and changing so radically on a consistent basis that it is vital for all artists to learn about these changes and evolve with them. At least if you want your music heard and your voice recognized as a cultural force.

Congratulations to Trent Reznor and his team.

• Nine Inch Nails: New 36 track album download
• NIN: Making of the Closer video

It’s 2009 and the speed of information has reached a level where events are broadcast on dozens of levels almost instantly and constantly. The delay between experience and sharing that experience has become virtually nonexistent. And the speed will continue to grow faster and reach more and more levels. So when a media company decides to play hide and seek games with their product and tease the public in a calculated and S-L-O-W pace of release, often they find themselves up-ended by the audience they completely underestimated and under-anticipated. Why wait for a bullshit tease about “something” that’s coming when the right person in the right place knows all about it and just posted it on Twitter? Why reveal just a small little taste when a friend of a friend has a blog that just revealed the entire meal? And that does happen all the time. The ability to keep a secret is only matched by the LACK of enthusiasm of the audience. If you do manage to keep that hot new media project under wraps as you roll out your methodical and laborious media campaign – congratulations, no one gives a shit enough to expose it beforehand.

So isn’t the smarter choice then to be ahead of the game and become the blogger yourself? Become the person who posts it on Twitter? Become the one who exposes your own game? Take control of your output by being the first to call attention to it and say to the world that YOU are the one who are leaking this out because YOU are the source. As soon as it leaves your inner world, it will get leaked. So YOU do it FIRST!

The days of long drawn out ad campaigns on billboards and magazines are dead. Don’t be the last to talk about something everyone already knows. It in fact makes you look worse because you are no longer the source of information. You become the LAST source of information. Other sources steal your authority and your audience. Sure, in the end if they want your product, they will come. But not because you got them there. It will be in spite of you that they got there.

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5 songs in heavy rotation this week:

• “Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)” – Pixies
• “Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)” – Love and Rockets
• “Last” – Nine Inch Nails
• “Gave Up” – Nine Inch Nails
• “Cuts You Up” – Peter Murphy

• Wednesday iPod Roundup – October 15
• Tuesday iPod Roundup – July 29

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My new Seattle ride – livin’ small, livin’ small

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5 songs in heavy rotation this week:

• “This Tornado Loves You” – Neko Case
• “The World At Large” – Modest Mouse
• “Fool To Cry” – Rolling Stones
• “All Nightmare Long” – Metallica
• “The Four Of Us Are Dying” – NIN

• Wednesday iPod Roundup – October 15
• Tuesday iPod Roundup – July 29

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• Virgania Horsen’s Pony Express
• Sloths!

The more you're promoted, the less creative you get to be.

• Women minds
• Text pieces…

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• The Future Of The Future
• Sleepless in Seattle

According to this article, Bono and U2 have partnered with RIM, the makers of Blackberry, ditching their former BFFs at Apple. Bono says, “Research In Motion [RIM] is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t — access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.”

This comes along with the current media whoring U2 is doing to promote their new crap CD and as they are about to hit the road on a HUGE stadium tour. But this ties in with exactly what’s been annoying me about Bono lately, he is so f*cking melodramatic, calculated and overthinking that it’s reaching an unbearable level of pompousness. What in the hell is Bono going to do “in their labs” over at RIM? What amazing and brilliant drops of genius is he going to bestow upon these “poor, boring technicians”? He’s a f*cking singer in a f*cking rock band. Big f*cking deal.

In Spin, Rolling Stone, and anywhere else that will listen, he is just going on and on about U2 being relevant and them “fighting” to stay on top. And it is just SO goddamned tiresome. What happened to just making a GOOD record? What happened to making music because you enjoyed it? Why does it have to be some BIG, HUGE, MONUMENTAL thing that has to “fight for relevance.” Who cares!? Make some good songs or don’t, but quit preaching about U2 like it’s some kind of superhero out to constantly “save rock and roll.”

And cut the bullsh*t about wanting to “access the labs” over at RIM and how Apple wouldn’t let you. You signed a deal with Blackberry because you wanted money for your tour and they made the best offer, plain and simple. I’m sure you got a nice fat check so that your profit margins are that much larger in your huge football stadium concert tour. I don’t want to hear your rationalizations about making something “spectacular” with Blackberry. If you really gave a sh*t you would have built some killer U2 SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE, and made it available for iPhones and Blackberrys. Just be honest, Bono. Leather jackets and guyliner aren’t cheap and you want to get paid. Save the pompous statements for someone who gives a crap, which by my estimate is not a whole helluva a lot of people anymore.

• Nothing changes…
• FastCompany says you’ll buy – not download – U2’s new CD. I say “Bullsh*t!”