Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Visit The Tofu Hut and get to know the Scissor Sisters
A new "The Hot Ish" list is up in the sidebar at left. As always, some links are active so mouse over and click to hear mp3's or to buy music. (NB: Old lists are moved to the bottom of the sidebar.)
The rise of "permission culture" and the "Copy Left" movement's efforts to thwart the growth of the passive "broadcast model" of cultural consumption are explored in Robert S. Boynton's article "The Tyranny of Copyright?" (NY Times)
Clay Shirky examines the question of whether Howard Dean's pioneering use of social software and new media platforms like blogging may have actually hurt rather than helped his campaign in "Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Camapign?" (Corante)
F-cks with John's blog The Tofu Hut. It's unclassifiable which makes it that much more worth reading. He loves Style Wars too but then again, who with any taste doesn't?
Clyde at Hip Hop Logic is back to posting regularly and is dropping some quality jewels on regional and national hip hop ish. Peep it.
And here's a reasoned and thoughtful assessment of the music industry's stance vis-a-vis the P2P, file trading issue. (via Enraged Baboon Industries.)
The new Air album Talkie Walkie is fantastic. More later if I can be bothered to put some coherent thoughts together about it.
Get ready for the Scissor Sisters, an NYC electro-glam-disco
Is LA Reid heading to Def Jam? The NY Daily News hints at it while others are saying it's already a done deal just waiting to be formally announced. I'm a Reid admirer but this just seems like a bad fit to me, he's way too flossy for a label that became successful by perfectly combining the grimey with the corporate. LA's a badly underestimated creative force in the game though, so I won't write him off completely if he makes a move there.
Liked Mulholland Drive? Check out David Cronenberg's Spider, a well-directed psychological drama featuring two incredible performances by Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson.
Music video director Joesph Kahn on his feature directorial debut Torque in Spin magazine: "I hate those movies like The Fast and the Furious, they look like shit. They have crappy lighting and cheesy dialogue." Based on this trailer, it looks like Joseph's talking out the side of his mouth because, to my eyes, it looks like he's been hawking F&F pretty hard before shooting his own movie.
Looks like our Minority Report future has arrived: Philips to Launch A Roll-Up E-Newspaper. (NY Post)
And finally, Walmart is coming to NYC. Sam Walton's empire has finally done it, they have managed to Wal-Martize the entire country. (Daily News)
