Do you like Reggaeton? This was a question an old friend asked me while visiting in L.A. We’re both from Boston, where most people have never heard of Reggaeton. And I hadn’t either, until I moved to Southern California. If you don’t know what Reggaeton is, it’s: A form of urban music that became popular [...]
Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called: That’s right! Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me. Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier– This troupe is actually part of a whole larger [...]
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. – Andy Warhol It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The [...]
If you ain’t never been to the ghetto Don’t ever come to the ghetto ‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto ~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard” used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes [...]
as a marketer you realize that it’s not so much that you’re really setting anything up for sale, it’s that everything already IS for sale, and you’re just helping it along. so it’s not so much that i’m bothered by the selling of “enlightenment,” (there’s been buddha statues on-sale for millennia, and what are THOSE [...]
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Social media maven."
- Wired
Knows a lot about how young people form tribes." - WBEZ, Chicago
- io9
- Los Angeles Times
Keenly observant."
- The Wrap
A deft mix of memoir and cultural mapping."
- Coilhouse
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