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My wife used to work at Capitol Records and remains friendly with Radiohead’s manager, Chris. When “Hail To The Thief” leaked the rumors were that the leak was intentional. I mailed Chris and asked him if there was truth to the rumor. He mailed back (paraphrasing), “I wish we were that clever! What should we [...]

A few months back when I saw this video on DaddyTypes, I was kinda excited. A kids show for our generation is a fine idea. Lucinda definitely isn’t going to be watching Barney, and the Sesame Street Old School Electric Company DVDs are only so long. Well, bad news for you. It’s wack. Depite contributions [...]

In case you didn’t believe me the other times I posted saying Bat For Lashes was awesome, this should convince beyond doubt: While I’m talking about excellent albums from 2007 by talented female artists, I’ll drop in a plug for the Joan As Policewoman album “Real Life”. Joan has been a member of both Rufus [...]

Having long since swapped out my home and work laptops to MacBook Pros, I finally dumped my old desktop PC for a Mac Mini on Friday night. Before I did I captured the five minutes it would take to get the PC to a semi-usable state on video just for posterity sake. I wasn’t planning [...]

I woke up early September 11th, 2001 planning to drop Zoe at Mary Chen’s house and head to SF to ask some folks at Microsoft’s venture arm to give Rob and me some money to build a Web service for personal media management. It already wasn’t an easy time to try to raise money for a digital music startup but I didn’t yet know just how hard it had become in a matter of moments. Julie was assisting Chuck Miller’s Ashtanga yoga class she she was up early and had left me a message that something was going on in NYC and I might want to call the airport before I took off. I signed on to AIM and told Cesar Hernandez I had a meeting in SF in a few hours. His response: “You’d better start walking.” At the time it was hard to imagine anything could be going on in NYC that would affect my ability to fly LAX to SFO, but of course I didn’t go anywhere that day except to Malibu in a car.

Anyway, I’d started an AIM chat room and invited folks who invited folks and it turned out to be an interesting document of the day. Thankfully Farrin kept a copy and after Tuesday’s Twitter 9/11 post she forwarded it to me. Below is the transcript, with everyone’s AIM names obfuscated.