I Hate Mornings

I am as guilty as most webheads of assuming that the rest of the world knows as much about new web technologies as I do. I often find myself being astounded by talk of CD players and record companies as if these were relics of a lost era. Eventually I turn to tell this story [...]

Of the last ten songs I’ve written, recorded, blogged, YouTubed and/or played to people, the “Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall song”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=556 has had the biggest response. About ten times the response of any other song. Why? I’ll give you a clue. It’s not because I’ve written and produced a masterpiece that will live on to inspire future generations. [...]

“Nick Gill”:http://www.nickfuckinggill.com has “written up”:http://www.themonroetransfer.co.uk/wordpress/?p=56 a conversation we had in the States last weekend, and taken it to a beautiful new level:
bq. We performing musicians are, by and large, an insecure lot- we want our creations to be validated. Nothing says “validation” like an enormous cheque from someone who wants to make you famous. But [...]

* Christine Rosen “agrees (The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking)”:http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking with my notion that successful multitasking doesn’t exist. It’s all about “the zone” (ie. attention).
* Victor “responds (Getting Ready to Get Ready and Singletasking. | Adventures in Songwriting)”:http://adventuresinsongwriting.com/?p=29 to the The Myth Of Multitasking from a songwriting perspective.
* Justin “speculates (How music consumption [...]