in school I had a great teacher who posed an interesting query of me and my work: Do you want to be the guy who makes great paint, or the guy who makes great paintings? I took it to mean, that obsessing over tools and techniques can take away a bit from obessesing over process and results.
Artists, Musicians, Coders, anyone in a specialized field probably has had some sort of experience with this… “I need the latest and gretest, that will make my work AWESOME!” Probably not, but you will certainly amass lots of equipment that will gather much dust.
With music (listening for me) I’ve amassed cables, stands, power conditioners, headphones, sources, speakers, etc. My collection of gear thankfully is spread throughout the country and in the hands of people who can actually use the stuff. In all this time, my favorite speakers are still my old Spica TC-50s (in a box), my favorite CD player is still my old Marantz 63se (in jackson), and my fave turntable is my Rega P2 (in my house). Learning to make the best with what you got is hard, but can be so rewarding. Because you can enjoy the music and relax.
I’m thinking about all of this because I saw this article today: REZNOR TWO
And this one last week: REZNOR ONE.
In the end, there seems to be a place for everyone, so whether you make music, sell music, produce music, whatever; just enjoy the music.
Well, I am going to try and write more this year (even if it’s just infosnacking) hopefully it’ll be more. first real post is about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Thanks myspace music. They’ve been around a few years and are a joy to hear check out the tracks below.
and see more info about her here
eventually CBuck and I will recommend something besides R&B, Soul or Blues (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
Tags: new music, sharon jones, soul
I just actually read the new itunes agreement.. it’s very long. I never had to read this stuff when buying vinyl at a store.A few things of note:
3. Objectionable Material. You understand that by using the Service, you may encounter content that may be deemed offensive, indecent, or objectionable, which content may or may not be identified as having explicit language. Nevertheless, you agree to use the Service at your sole risk and that Apple shall have no liability to you for content that may be found to be offensive, indecent, or objectionable. Content types (including genres, sub-genres and Podcast categories and sub-categories and the like) and descriptions are provided for convenience, and you acknowledge and agree that Apple does not guarantee their accuracy.
ohhhhh, dirty.
(iv) You shall be able to store Products from up to five different Accounts on certain devices, such as an iPod or iPhone, and Apple TV at a time; provided that each iPhone may sync ring tone Products with only a single Apple-authorized device at a time, and that syncing an iPhone with another Apple-authorized device will cause any ring tone Products stored on such iPhone to be erased and, if you so choose, to be replaced with any ring tone Products stored on such other Apple-authorized device. Additional restrictions apply to Movies Rentals, as described below.(v) You shall be authorized to burn an audio playlist up to seven times.(vi) You shall not be entitled to burn video Products or ring tone Products.
Damn, I wanted to plop everything on my Zune.
(xv) HDMI. An HDCP connection is required in order to view movies (purchased or rented) and TV shows transmitted over HDMI.
The movies are copy protected, well, I couldn’t rent HD via iTunes anyway.Here’s the entire agreement
Tags: aggreements, itunes, wha?
