The Internet Age, so much information. It’s a struggle to keep the time we spend each day consuming it within reasonable limits. To that end, we offer this curated list of daily links of interest…
Covered this week; New David Bowie documentary The Last Five Years… Legendary radio host Milt Rosenberg dies at 92… Radiohead sue Lana Del Ray… I found my suicide note… Prince channeling Gershwin… Uber as a criminal enterprise… Facebook makes some changes, or does it?
January 8, 2018
The Last Five Years, is a BBC production that HBO is airing tonight (Bowie’s 71st birthday, two days before the two-year anniversary of his death). The director Francis Whately’s previous work, Five Years, was about Bowie’s iconically fabulous ’70s and ’80s; this one is largely about 2011 to 2016, a period when Bowie recorded two albums and created one musical. The film argues that Bowie used those efforts to deconstruct and rebuke his own legend—which had the clever effect of reinforcing it.
January 9, 2018
Milt Rosenberg, Chicago broadcasting royalty as the longtime host of WGN-AM’s ‘Extension 720’ show, dies at 92…
January 10, 2018
As the history of recorded music grows ever denser as the years roll on… it would seem to me that this sort of thing will start happening more and more… as it stands though, this particular instance doesn’t seem like a coincidence, but rather, a straight up lifting of a song. Radiohead sues Lana Del Ray for the stark similarities in her song ‘Get Free’ to their ‘Creep’…
January 11, 2018
Matt Gemmell’s piece ‘I found my suicide note‘… give this a read if you find yourself in a good place.
January 12, 2018
As the frigid Chicago temperatures continue on here early in the new year… I step out for a little Prince, channeling Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ during a 1990 soundcheck… Summer will be here before we know it.
January 13, 2018
Sort of a telling article regarding Uber on Bloomberg Business Week… as Daring Fireball put it, ‘Uber should best be described not as a business or startup, but as a racket, a criminal enterprise.’
January 14, 2018
Facebook has introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most often, saying on Thursday that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.
