My day all day has been my two favorite NY Institutions : Knicks (anxiety) and the Lounge Lizards : live in Berlin records all day : @lurie_john if you have archives please open em up
@toddpatrick@PoRican And I do think the audience deserves some share of blame here. Streaming services and social media play an outsized role in music discovery these days and people embrace it because it’s easy but long term it’s going to be a disaster.
@toddpatrick@PoRican It’s easy to say any of these places made choices but in reality I think a lot of their hands were forced (except vice - that story is bananas). The tech platforms have reduced revenue to micropayments which causes every aspect of the industry to chase scale.
@earlboykins I’ve been struggling with him for years : absolute genius and am completely taken aback by his mind so I stick around but I don’t appreciate that he creates these intricate spaces and invites me only to make me feel bad. If you get it is, the message: “don’t want come do this?”
Hey @mvbones1980 : got invited to an N+1 party the other night and I said to myself “damn I wish soldiers of fortune were playing” : when is the reunion?
Is it possible that the guys who started @a24 saw Sullivan’s Travels and thought Joel McCrea’s character had it right the first time and thought his revelation was misguided?
@lurie_john The economist ran a piece suggesting the only thing keeping Arizona from being an exponentially worse catastrophe than Katrina was their aging electrical grid not failing. This is starting to feel like act I of something very dark.