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Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail ⇒
I think I enjoy surliness. If you have time, read this interview with Albini. He gives his opinion on everything from the “end” of radio, band promotion via the internet, John Peel, how Sonic Youth should be embarrassed by their behavior, and fashion.
“The candy is magic. It’s voyeurism, schadenfreude, approval, complicity, distraction. It’s a buoy, it’s a false hope, it’s a drug.”
PRACTICE BEING HUMAN.
From Good Mail Day.
What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space ⇒
There has been much discussion about the value of the “creative pause” – a state described as “the shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.” This phenomenon is the seed of the break-through “a-ha!” moments that people so frequently report having in the shower. In these moments, you are completely isolated, and your mind is able to wander and churn big questions without interruption.
“Take a step back, though, and what Groupon represents is something far bigger. It’s the mainstreaming of a new current in American consumerism, an attitude born of the Internet’s DIY ethos and nurtured by the hard economic times. One might call it retail hacking: the reconception of shopping as not just a full-time job but a contact sport, a scrum in which consumers increasingly refuse to buy on the terms dictated to them.”
– (Source: Wired)Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game
(Source: caritadegato)
“The Internet is a new kind of barometer for keeping track of exactly how old you feel: how many things you don’t get, how many mini-Internet worlds you can’t find the door to; exactly how many crickets in the world you can no longer hear chirping. Unlike in generations past, when (I imagine) you just kept doing what you and your same-aged friends did, and aged into obscurity in comfort on a cloud of your own tastes and generational inclinations, until you died either thinking you all were still the coolest or not caring anymore about being cool, these days the Internet exists in part to introduce you to all these things you didn’t know about, but in part to remind you how much there is out there that you’ll never know about. The Internet is basically like being at a house party and trying to find the bathroom and opening up a door to a room where a bunch of kids are playing a game or doing a drug or having an orgy (metaphorically) or something and you get all flustered and say, ‘Oh, my God, I’m sorry!’ and they all look at you like, ‘You pervert,’ and you quickly slam the door shut. Everywhere you go on the Internet there are rooms you don’t understand, people playing games you don’t know the rules to, teenagers doing drugs you’ve never heard of and can’t even pronounce. And you just walk through the halls of this house party, aging in fast forward, until you open the one last door at the end of the hallway and it’s Death. Ha, ha.”
– Edith Zimmerman in today’s New York Times column Dealing With Your Own Cultural Irrelevance (at Age 28) (Source: sarahspy)
