Today is a day that Bostonians have been waiting 20 years for: Celtics/Lakers tickets go on sale for the 2008 NBA Finals. At 2 PM, fans everywhere queued up online, at ticket sellers, and on the phone to witness history. Within minutes, all tickets were gone. The only choice for tickets now is to turn to a secondary market: eBay, Craigslist, or places like StubHub. Locally, Ace Ticket is the...
My symbolic trip to McCarthyism…
“Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator…. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” In this example, I was the lad. And the Senator was the salesman who showed up to sell me carpeting. I’ve got this small room that I’m turning into a home office. Pretty basic stuff: some paint, a desk, and...
But it’s free …
Yay for Radiohead! Yay for NIN! Yay for the millions of other people who gave their music away for free. Free is good, free is easy, free is … well, free. Wait a minute. Is it good? What happened to the expression “you get what you pay for?” Since when do we walk into a store, look at a shirt, and say “oh, you know, wearing this shirt means supporting the company that...
Social Networking? Just go DO stuff!
The big trend across music and people and seemingly life itself is “social networking sites.” You know, MySpace, Facebook, and a million others. The theory is that since you can’t meet, find, or keep friends in real life, you need a way to do it virtually. How refreshing! Now I don’t have to actually have friends, I can just have cyberfriends. This way, I can have...
Anthemic Rock – or a lack thereof…
Yesterday evening, I went to an NFL game at [Big Corporate Sponsor] Stadium. Alongside the $8 beers, and the $7 hot dogs, I noticed that the music predates many of the attendees. This got me to wondering: doesn’t anyone today write the bone-rattling, crowd maddening, stadium shaking tunes that incite our teams to win? Last night I heard lots of Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, and a bit o’ Led...