Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

“You must be the only head of a major music company that rides a bike to get places in L.A..” – Dave Goldberg, out his car window at a stop light on Pico Blvd, 11:30pm this evening. See ya, guys. I’ll miss ya. Seriously. Thanks for everything. Don’t be strangers. ian

Weird Al, Top of His Game

I remember the first time I heard Weird Al. I was in grade school and Matt Smith was so into the debut Weird Al Yankovic record he wanted to be Al and had his own set of parodies of current hits. Ah, Matt, where are you now? Al is still here. In fact, he’s at [...]

My Resume, In Guitar Picks

No offense, but I don’t need your business card any more than I need a subscription to one of those old-fangled paper news things like the LA Times. I already have your email address, it’s pretty unlikely I’m going to pick up the phone and cold-call you in the age of email, it’s doubtful I’ll [...]

Confessions of a Music Pirate

From The Consumerist, the account of an honest man turned to the dark side by the confines of technology he doesn’t need. ian

A Weekend’s Work

I spent most of my free time this weekend writing end-of-year performance reviews for the great people I work with (I’m done now so you can stop being nice to me again) but still managed to squeeze in a few other activities such as: Being, along with Lucinda and Julie, the only non-Spanish speakers at [...]