I sell my soul - but at the highest rates.
🔗📼 Harlan Ellison 18 years ago #PayTheWriter
Had cause to post this today - again - on a LinkedIN feed.
My friend (and co founder of the original Just Good Music blog) John Parker sent me an email …
I have found that the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small, and I KNOW that you are one of the ones that does, hence my email. Every once in a while I need to reach out and touch base just to know that I’m not insane, it’s the rest of the world that is lost.
And
So you motor along and see cool music videos. and you say"yeah!" and “cool!”. And everyonce in a while, you see one that makes you close your computer just go take a walk. Like… goddamn. This is a goddamn video …
This is that video - and DAMN - he’s right.
And if you like this - here is Ren’s YouTube channel .. so you can fill your boots.
🔗 Ren on Wikipedia tells a story for sure.
As to John’s throwaway line;
“the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small”
Needless to say - I wholeheartedly agree which is why I take solace in podcasts like The Rockenteurs, YouTube channels like Rick Beato and Newsletters like Ted Gioia.
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.
📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..
… via Colbert
I read this over on Gaping Void and thought wait - there’s a much older - more famous story - so I found it for you - so you didn’t have to.
The logo in my email signature in 🍎📧 just stopped rendering earlier this week. Took until today to work out what was wrong - noting that I hadn’t changed anything.
As of this morning … fixed - though no idea why it stopped working to begin with.
🔗📼😂 I know exactly how Kevin feels.
Chlöe Swarbrick (New Zealand Green Party) .. waxing lyrical with ‘Gary’ - his first politician on the ‘cast - and he explains why - 🔗📼 a good listen.
.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.