I am a big fan the NY Times. In the Magazine this Sunday there was an article on self-marketing by musicians and the American Public in general. It features a gentleman named Jonathan Coulton, a NY programmer who decided to make his dream come true he had to take life into his own hands. He quit his job and became a self-employed musician. His weekly assignment: a song.
He calls the process "forced creativity". "I learned that it is possible to squeeze a song out of just about anything,” The way the songs connect to the everyday man provide a mostly humorous genre, rife with sarcasm and opinions.
He streams these songs on his blog to get some attention with the option to download for a buck, and now ladies and gentleman, he is a minor pop-culture phenomenon. I recommend "Shop Vac" for a parody of Suburbia and "Code Monkeys" will hit home if you are now or ever had been employed by a technology company.
Elsewhere in the NY Times is Mr. Spock taking pictures of naked fat chicks. Since the NY Times censored the photos I went straight to the source, as I strangely wanted to look at naked fat chicks. Turns out Leonard Nimoy is not half bad at bw photography.
Evidently there are gun feuds in New Hampshire these days, and Bode Miller is part of one of the "clans". Holy Randomness Batman.
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