“They come up with storyboards and lines, and I see the process. Then, I do what I do: Buffettizing.” — Jimmy Buffet, singer-songwriter and touring phenomenon, on his role in developing the new Margaritaville social networking game.
“Rickey doesn’t have albums. Rickey has CDs.” — Rickey Henderson, legendary Major League Baseball outfielder, when asked if he had the Garth Brooks album with the song Friends in Low Places. Henderson, was infamous for talking about himself in the 3rd person.
“People prefer man-to-machine over man-to-man relations when it comes to music discovery.” – David Hyman, CEO of subscription music service, MOG.
“It’s not just the ability to touch, see and smell an album and the artwork…it’s the fact that you are in a Real Place with Real People…and not just any people: other music-obsessed freaks like you. I discovered so many bands by just hanging out, talking to shopkeepers, getting recommendations from some random dude who was flipping through the Nick Cave bootleg box as fervently as I was. You can’t get that feeling sitting behind your computer, ever.” – Amanda Palmer, recording artist and technology enthusiast.
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Did You Notice: What does Tosh have against Podcasting and Bruno Mars?
In honor of the recently announced return of MTV’s 120 Minutes, I thought a flashback was in order.
What better than “Every Word Means No” from Let’s Active — the ultimate 80′s College Rock video?:
DMI Tip: Why is this the ultimate “80′s College Rock video” — I’m glad you asked:
1- This is Mitch Easter’s band. Mitch of course produced R.EM.’s Murmur, aka as the definitive College Rock album of the 80′s.
2- The band, Let’s Active, is simultaneously under-appreciated and legendary.
3- The ‘dancing in place” two-step move that bassist Faye Hunter employed is textbook. Belinda Carlisle took this move mainstream in the video for “Our Lips Are Sealed”.
4- The college-rock pogo is also in full affect. Note, this is a slower and gentler pogo than the 1976-1978 British Punk version.
5- The fuzzy sweater vests. This look certainly swept College Radio programming offices throughout the early 80′s. Kurt Cobain took it to a whole other level when he went full-fledged Cardigan in the early 90′s.
6-The eye-makeup. Many folks think Pete Wentz took “guy-liner” straight from the 70′s Metal and Glam acts; but College Rock certainly had its eye makeup run too. Pun intended.
7-Big hair. Big guitars. Small drum kits.
8- It sends signals of innocence and prolonged adolescence. Note the puppies.
9-The song, “Every Word Means No” put the J in Jangle.
10 – Let’s Active and ‘Every Word Means No” remains to this day, completely obscure. A College Rock necessity.
DMI Tip: OptoFidelity is a Finnish company that specializes in machine vision and optical measurement technology. Now, they have designed a robot to play Angry Birds. Note cheezy Rockford Files meets NIN instrumental track on the “behind-the-scenes” video below:
“The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. My image was an issue at my record label. I fought for months and cried at meetings. I got criticized for being arrogant because if you’re sure of yourself as a woman they say you’re a bitch whereas if you’re a man and you’re strong-willed it’s normal.” — Lady Gaga
“It’s not F**K me, it’s F**K you.” — Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders and her advice to women in Rock and Roll.
“I snorted my Porsche. I snorted my plane. I snorted my house in that din of drugs and booze and being lost”. — Steven Tyler, lead singer Aerosmith and American Idol judge.
‘The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties. It was a street dealer who followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi.” — Denis Leary, actor and author.
Hats Off: To Boing Boing for this note allegedly found at a San Francisco cafe. I’m betting on it
Did You Notice: Bill paying and resume building don’t get exclamations. Yoga!, on the other hand….
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads…that sucks.” – Jeff Hammerbacher, ex-Facebook Head of Data, now co-founder Cloudera, a data-analysis software startup.
“People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.” — James Randi, magician, author, skeptic. During Alice Cooper’s 1973–1974 tour, performed as the dentist and executioner on stage.
