Old Navy is currently running ads with Anjani’s “Blue Alert” as backdrop. They have now ruined the best song on her latest album. To hear it the way it was meant to be heard, visit her blog with your speakers turned on.
The song lyrics are a poem written by Leonard Cohen. It is pure poetry, […]
The greatest love songs and poems are all hymns to Ishtar. Popular love songs often use blunt psychological manipulation also (appeals to pleasant emotions, desire to be loved, etc.) but at their core they have one single universal theme. The beauty is in expressing the theme indirectly, ambiguously, and hypnotically.
The song “Umbrella” by Rihanna is […]
In China, iPod is pronounced ai-po. I never saw anyone using an iPod, but saw plenty of APPO and AIGO mp3 players. The ads on TV look like Apple ads, too.
What do the following three recent phenomena have in common?
Scoble lamenting the fact that it’s getting harder and harder for wannabe 2.0 stars to get noticed.
Rose and Calcanis skirmishing over whether the taste-makers at Digg/Netscape should get paid in filthy lucre.
NYT breathlessly reporting yet another centralized gambit to take over taste-making.
All three of them are […]
Now this is funny. Reddit links to a digg story, planted to link back to the same reddit story.