Blog Fu: The Eight Capital Cities of Heaven
I get so many links and so many wonderful concepts that -- time permitted -- I could probably do two or three blog fu columns a week. I don't because of two reasons. 1: I'm not paid to and 2: I have other things to do with my time.(1) If you enjoy them, sorry they're not more common.
Anyway, here goes ...
- The headline alone caught my attention: Software predicts which songs will be hits. It's every A&R's dream, something they could use to justify their choices and not even really work very hard.(2) OTOH, if Chuck D is on board with it, it can't be all bad. My concern is that it essentially boils all "hit" (as in "selling") music to lowest common denominator factors. I'm deathly afraid of the lowest common denominator, the center points on the bell curve. Don't get me wrong, some of that music's amazing stuff, but what if -- spirit forbid -- some Celine Dion or Britney Spears sneaks up in there? The horror! Sure, those artists have their adherents. My belief, and I'll admit that it is nothing more than my belief, is that those people are either heretics or criminally insane.(3) I fear for the Republic ...
- Do you know how most people realize they don't have a billion dollars? They aren't able to freak it like George Soros. I'm always sad when people don't know his name, because he knows money like gynecologists know women -- inside and out. Anyhoo, he recently gave every poor student in New York State $200. For real. That added up to a bit under $200 million bucks -- not much for George, but a lot for a lotta people -- and just goes to show that rich folk can do stuff you can't.(4)
- Have you ever known a female who was afraid of spiders? Some say it's built in to the female mind, based on some research. I can't grok it. Rats are scary -- they have muscle mass, they're fast, they need to be exterminated. Spiders? Mostly harmless in my mind. Well, now that I've seen those brown recluse pictures, maybe not, but still ...(5)
- Speaking of the ladies, have you ever known one who was worried about the size of her thighs? Well, research indicates that larger thighs can protect against heart disease in some specific cases. I don't know that they needed to vamp it up with that attempt at a racy picture, but the article did have some health conscious tips on getting an ideal size, which was cool.
- On the other hand, obesity can cause people to lose brain tissue over time. Which is an ill trade off -- alive but zonked out. Just saying ...
- Anyway, if you can stand some profanity and love to laugh, you have got to check out The Bloggess, who I found on Twitter and who just tickles the heck outta me. My favorites are the ones where she's dealing with her husband Victor who reminds me of myself a great deal, even though he gets defensive and/or insane. I have laughed so hard at this, and I so appreciate it. Not as much as Texts From Last Night, which is a non-stop deluge of hilarity and human foibles (I'm on page 510 or so now), but she rocks in a much smarter and more linear fashion.
Just a short one for tonight, but I may do the one I've had in mind about stupid uber-elements in deaths of major comic characters. It's been brewing in my brain.
Listening (Music): to @SupaSista do a music mix without headphones
Anyway, here goes ...
- The headline alone caught my attention: Software predicts which songs will be hits. It's every A&R's dream, something they could use to justify their choices and not even really work very hard.(2) OTOH, if Chuck D is on board with it, it can't be all bad. My concern is that it essentially boils all "hit" (as in "selling") music to lowest common denominator factors. I'm deathly afraid of the lowest common denominator, the center points on the bell curve. Don't get me wrong, some of that music's amazing stuff, but what if -- spirit forbid -- some Celine Dion or Britney Spears sneaks up in there? The horror! Sure, those artists have their adherents. My belief, and I'll admit that it is nothing more than my belief, is that those people are either heretics or criminally insane.(3) I fear for the Republic ...
- Do you know how most people realize they don't have a billion dollars? They aren't able to freak it like George Soros. I'm always sad when people don't know his name, because he knows money like gynecologists know women -- inside and out. Anyhoo, he recently gave every poor student in New York State $200. For real. That added up to a bit under $200 million bucks -- not much for George, but a lot for a lotta people -- and just goes to show that rich folk can do stuff you can't.(4)
- Have you ever known a female who was afraid of spiders? Some say it's built in to the female mind, based on some research. I can't grok it. Rats are scary -- they have muscle mass, they're fast, they need to be exterminated. Spiders? Mostly harmless in my mind. Well, now that I've seen those brown recluse pictures, maybe not, but still ...(5)
- Speaking of the ladies, have you ever known one who was worried about the size of her thighs? Well, research indicates that larger thighs can protect against heart disease in some specific cases. I don't know that they needed to vamp it up with that attempt at a racy picture, but the article did have some health conscious tips on getting an ideal size, which was cool.
- On the other hand, obesity can cause people to lose brain tissue over time. Which is an ill trade off -- alive but zonked out. Just saying ...
- Anyway, if you can stand some profanity and love to laugh, you have got to check out The Bloggess, who I found on Twitter and who just tickles the heck outta me. My favorites are the ones where she's dealing with her husband Victor who reminds me of myself a great deal, even though he gets defensive and/or insane. I have laughed so hard at this, and I so appreciate it. Not as much as Texts From Last Night, which is a non-stop deluge of hilarity and human foibles (I'm on page 510 or so now), but she rocks in a much smarter and more linear fashion.
Just a short one for tonight, but I may do the one I've had in mind about stupid uber-elements in deaths of major comic characters. It's been brewing in my brain.
Listening (Music): to @SupaSista do a music mix without headphones
FOOTNOTES:
(1) = Hi, girls! Just had to give a shout out to my lovely ladies (wife/daughters) at home. Shut up, you would too!
(2) = "Just run your demo through the software. Do not wake me up if the score is less than gold!"
(3) = Not whimsically fun insane like me. So yes, that'd be bad.
(4) = I don't think people really conceive of what "rich" is. Rich is "fly into town on a private plane you own, walk up to a busy building, buy it, deck it out, hang out for a bit and fly out" style stuff. "Buy yourself a working fighter plane for kicks" stuff. Really being rich is big, and most people don't think big with our smaller rectangular screens.
(5) = You'll have to Google that for yourself. Those pictures are creepy.
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