Marketing. Music. Occasional Wisdom.
…and they’re singing “Vehicle” 🙂
The best-est part of working in radio was being able to play amazingly topical music. Specifically, March 15th meant the one time we got to play “Vehicle” by the Ides of March. A personal favorite tune, it’s a total one-hit wonder doomed to obscurity 364 days out of the year.
But not today!
In the process of creating some marketing collateral, I received the following piece of advice: “Don’t let grammar stand in your way.” I understand the concept — saying what you want is often more important than saying it correctly. But have we, as an industry/culture/populace gotten to the point where we’ve actually forgotten how to communicate? I think we have. And...
I spent a good portion of last week delivering guest lectures to the “Creative Promotion in New Media” classes at Berklee. For the class, I offered up some slides which helped explain both what marketing is about along with a few examples of sites that were good, bad, or at least illustrative of the necessary understandings. Ultimately it came down to 5 major considerations. Here they...
On this day, in the year 62 (!), a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the city of Pompeii, Italy. While this doesn’t directly cause the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79, it does provide an excuse to offer up a clip from Pink Floyd’s “Live at Pompeii” …
P.S. This totally breaks the site, but watching this in the HD option is totally worth it … 🙂
Today would have been George Harrison’s 67th birthday. On (my favorite George Harrison tune) “The Art of Dying,” soon-to-be Genesis drummer/singer Phil Collins plays congas. As a kid, Collins was an extra in the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night. While Collins wasn’t credited on the original album, he’s thanked in the liner notes on the 2000 re-release...
I’m so glad you’re planning ahead. You see, lots of people tend to wait ’til the last minute. And at that point, I end up getting coffee mugs and gift cards. Not that those aren’t nice, mind you, but they’re not all that inspired. Instead, I’ll make it nice ‘n’ easy for you all. Possibly planned to coincide with my annual birthday celebration (which...
Marketing. Music. Occasional Wisdom.