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Friday, July 90
“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.
“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.
“They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”
THE INTERNET IS COMPLETELY OVER? Funny, that’s what I thought about Prince when I first heard “Bat Dance”.
via Prince – world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world – mirror.co.uk.
Of course, Kevin Smith already outed Prince’s batshit crazy…
More and more people are running their businesses, quite successfully, as solo founders. If you happen to follow the world of startups, especially web startups, you’ll know that venture capital is undergoing a change and more startups are being run on less initial investment and that the size of each investment is getting smaller. More:Royal We: Single Founder Startups | Ginzametrics.
When I read this article about BP defending its response to the Gulf Oil spill, for some reason my mind went to the scene in “A Few Good Men
BP, for all of their pompous arrogance, is just like Colonel Jessep. Replace a few words in that speech with words like Oil, and it might as well be BP’s position right now.
There are over 5,000 offshore oil rigs. Forget the “accidents”…what happens when Terrorists, or North Korea or…worse… starts torpedoing them?
In the meantime, the company plans this “Top Kill”. Who better to explain it, than Bill Nye the Science Guy?
I was blowing up Mixie Moxie via SMS because I knew that she had gotten to see the Portland show of Amanda Fucking Palmer’s newest project: Evelyn Evelyn.
Evelyn Evelyn is a character–actually 2 characters…conjoined twin sisters (both named Evelyn) played by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley. I’m a sucker for theatrics, and this project goes way beyond “concept album”. It’s a traveling circus side show musical…with a huge back story that was weaved with the assistance of Neil Gaiman, to whom AFP is engaged.
So I asked Mixie Moxie how she enjoyed the show. She wrote:
“The show was amazing. The Crystal Ballroom dancefloor is on ball bearings so it bounces! 4 and a half hour show. Brilliant theatrics from e/e. Finally got to see Jason perform and AFP was spectacular as usual. You must see it. I think you’ll really like Sxip! Look him up, he’s amazing. Sxip Shirey”
Well, I did look him up. And I do like him. And now I’m sharing. All thanks to the Mix:
Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the regulator in charge of the futures markets, approved the applications of the Cantor Futures Exchange and Media Derivatives (MDEX), to serve as contract markets to trade futures in the media market.
Now the CFTC is holding hearings to discuss whether the commission should approve Cantor’s and MDEX’s first contracts involving futures and options based on the opening weekend revenues for the film “Takers,” a movie about bank robbers starring the hip-hop music star Tip Harris (T.I.), and Hayden Christensen (whiny Darth Vader).
These “synthetic contracts” allow traders to bet on the amount of money the movie would make. If the movie makes more or less money than the initial revenue level set by the contract, one side would collect money and the other would lose money. These would be so-called synthetic contracts, meaning that the traders would not own the revenues they were betting on, so they would be purely speculative.
This is all I have to say about this whole idea:
Movie Time at the C.F.T.C. Draws Heated Debate – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com.
My uncle Gerry recorded this song. He suggested that I get it out quick.
