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Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Some Group of Business Students 21, False Consciousness 7 (Or, My New Hobby)
We only lost by two touchdowns. Too bad we were playing softball, not football. Actually Coach Greg figured out that if you leave out the two early innings where we were subject to the mercy rule (the inning’s over when a team scores 7 runs), it was a tie game. — It was a beautiful, …
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Quote of the Night From An Advice Thread on the Tape Op Messageboard
“I would add, if you are a musician and want to play in a band and just be in a band, please do yourself a favor and dont take any of this too seriously and just sit and focus on writing songs and making cool music. too many people that should be learning how to …
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Get Ready for a Big IP Fight in the Fall
Canada’s working on its own Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it suitably panders to the entertainment industry. Not surprisingly, it was introduced by the Liberals, who are busy doing cool things in other areas, like pushing through legislation to insure that people can marry other people of the same sex (one at a time limit, …
Holy Moving Faders, Batman
You may recall a post a month or more ago extolling my excitement at acquiring this item: Well, I spent some time yesterday actually using it. I don’t mean figuring out how to use it — which I had been doing (and I still have a lot to learn) — but working on an actual …
More Major Label Stupidity
Okay, so Carrie and I went to Future Shop yesterday and bought some tech and also a few major label CDs we’d been planning to get for awhile. Alongside the Metallica, we bit on the new Coldplay CD because, well, we really liked the last one. I haven’t listened to the new one yet, but …
Circle of Triceratops
is a phrase uttered by young Eva, who received a dinosaur book from Carrie. It contains a picture of a well, you know. Anyway, I figured it would be a good name for a heavy rock band. If I find my heavy band and they have a sense of humor, well then watch out world. …