Gold Star 2.17

Wow see what happens when you go out of the country then to Disney World...you get out of the habit. Plus I've got that new time suck Facebook. Which I am enjoying quite a bit.

Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
He has been making CDs since 1979. This one he teams up once again with 3/5s of Touring REM also known as Venus 3. This cd wouldn't change your mind about him. If you like him this cd will make you happy. If you've never heard of him this cd is a good introduction.

Morrisey - Years of Refusal
Damn the man amazes. Years of Greatness.

M Ward - Hold Time
He makes timeless music but this is not even close to his best. His worst is better than most of what is out there though.

also check out
...and you will know us by the trail of dead, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Asobi Seksu and Cranes. All strong just not Gold Star strong. Download the few songs you dig

More later and sooner
Bro



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Now playing: Carla Bruni - Le temps perdu
via FoxyTunes

I don't think I want to twitter but after reading this I may have to start.

From: Amanda Palmer
Subject: re-Please Drop Me

my label-dropping game has become very fun. please pray for me.

it’s a lesson in how the future of music is working -
fans are literally (and i mean that….literally) lining up at the signing table after shows and HANDING me cash, saying "thank you".

i had to EXPLAIN to the so-called "head of digital media" of roadrunner australia WHAT TWITTER WAS. and his brush-off that "it hasn’t caught on here yet" was ABSURD because the next day i twittered that i was doing an impromptu gathering in a public park and 12 hours later, 150 underage fans - who couldn’t attend the show - showed up to get their records signed.

no manager knew! i didn’t even warn or tell her! no agents! no security! no venue! we were in a fucking public park!
life is becoming awesome.

also interesting: i brought a troupe of back-up actors/dancers on the tour (we were only playing 300-1000 seaters) and had no money to pay them, so we passed the hat into the crowd every night. each performer walked from each show with about $200 in cash. the fans TOOK CARE OF THEM. they brought us dinner every night, gave us places to sleep. (i couldn’t afford to put up that many people in hotels). all sans label, all using email and twitter. the fans followed the adventure. they LOVED HELPING.

so?
the times they are a-changing fucking dramatically, when pong-twittering with trent reznor means way more to your fan-base/business than whether or not the record is in fucking stores (and in my case, it ain’t in fucking stores).

twitter is EVERYTHING that you explain in your rants: it is a MAINLINE insta-connection with the fans. there is ZERO middleman.
my fans hung out with me all day on twitter today while i unpacked weird tour shit, fan art, gifts and paraphernalia that usually just ends up in my closet or in the trash and took pictures of it for them.

xa

Plamer's Site

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Now playing: Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
via FoxyTunes