screenshot of an email that came from a music retailer on Wednesday:
Gold, mining stocks, Treasuries, and overhyped music players will see you through the hard times.
Reynolds on Axl and Kanye
Recommended: Simon Reynold's compare and contrast on Salon of the new Axl Rose and Kanye West releases. It's unusual to see criticism foregrounding the studio software used by artists almost ahead of music and lyrics; Reynolds notes that Rose and West use these normally invisible processes in a highly visible way, so that they rise to the level of active partnership in the content. This justifies all the attention to ProTools, Autotune, compression, and the "loudness wars." Reynolds' roots in techno-rave criticism (he wrote the book Energy Flash aka Generation Ecstasy) give him an edge over critics who won't know how to talk about the "cyborg" aspect of both recordings.
Thanks Again, Alan
Clinton knew that Greenspan could sink his administration at any point, and Greenspan knew he knew, so Greenspan forced Clinton to cut spending 'to balance the budget,' something he was not interested in when a Republican President occupied the White House.
If you're wondering why your finances went to hell one reason is Alan Greenspan. Most boys outgrow Ayn Rand, but not Alan, who continued to praise her writing as recently as a few years ago. He believed in fighting inflation if that meant keeping down wages of the middle class (tough love and all that) but didn't care about the inflation wrought by gamblers in financial services. Now the poor old man professes to be "shocked" that his philosophy of life was so much crap.
