August 2008

“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.”—Francis Ford Coppola

You’re sitting in front of your computer on just another average day. For reasons not fully realized, a song pops into you head—one that you haven’t heard, or even thought of, in a very long time. Before long, your mind’s shuffling through the tracks of the entire album.

For the love of music

It’s one you had on a cassette tape as a teenager (you played it so much, eventually the audio was no longer audible), or on CD as a college student (which disappeared after a party, which you replaced, only to disappear a few weeks later after the next party). Now here you are, in the middle of the night/morning, as part of your brain reminds you that the memory of sound and song is no match for sound and song, wishing it were part of your 12,000-song digital music library. Read more…

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”
—William S. Burroughs