Many will never make a conscious decision to switch. They’ll get an iPad as well, then find they use their Windows machine less and less. When it dies they won’t replace it.

FREE ONLINE MUSIC RESOURCE GUIDE

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The link above will take you a site that simply lists a good amount of our favorite music business resources for independent musicians. The list was compiled by our very own Director of Optimism,  Jack Storey, and Brandy Price, Course Director of Music Distribution at Full Sail University.

Just a little starter for you before we launch our first annual Independent Music Business Resource Guide in the coming months! What companies would you suggest we add to the list?

I still remember getting up in front of the staff/class almost daily [as editor of the school newspaper] and cursing everybody out. “This is SHIT, PURE SHIT!” and that feeling like the biggest thrill i’d ever known. That was probably the best time of my life. Especially when you guys gave me headlines like IT BURNED LIKE A WING OF FIRE: ERIC & SO AND SO REVIEW TALLAHASSEE’S FINEST HOTWINGS. And I would be like, BULLSHIT NOT ON MY WATCH! NEEDS MOAR CURLZ FONT and then cut your piece only to put in a center spread for Dave Thomas, in memoriam, interviewing everyone from the principal to Wendy’s employees re: did they believe in fry-frosty dippage.

Meaghan cracks me up. And she’s just raised $16,000 on Kickstarter to publish a book about sex.
(via spoff)

(via spoff)

Assume you are not all that interesting. The reader does not want a peek into your life. Not enough people care. Do you know how I know? Because porn is boring. Sure, if you’re using it for masturbation, it’s interesting, because then it’s giving you something. But if not, what are you doing watching? Who cares about someone else’s sex life? And you can be sure that the peek into your life is never going to be as interesting as a porn movie. So forget writing a blog post merely to give someone a peek.

Thing is, every friend I have who’s a journalist says the same thing — they (understandably) hate that the quality of their work is suffering under a mandate to push out shit-tons of increasingly under-resourced, faster-deadlined, less chewy material, just so their publisher can drive empty page views and compete more effectively in the race to the bottom. Because, if you’re counting on raw tonnage of page views and cheap RoN ads to keep your business afloat, you’re in for a rocky next few years.

Lank of hair and acoustic of guitar, Walker comes off as a smoother Jeffrey Lewis, with more than a touch of humour. Before the Indiana Jones moment he dedicates a song to the shop itself which climaxes with the rueful realisation that the narrator has ended up renting Uncle Buck, again. Never having rented Uncle Buck myself, I can’t quite say I get the joke, but the assembled film fans seem to appreciate it.

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Unconditional acceptance, the complete trust family members ought to have for one another, is meaningful only when it is accompanied by an unstinting investment of attention. Otherwise it is just an empty gesture, a hypocritical pretense indistinguishable from disinterest.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow

Videosyncratic (a tribute song) (my latest creation ;)