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I hadn’t heard about the Depeche Mode iTunes Pass fiasco:
Just recently, Apple introduced its iTunes Pass program with Depeche Mode, only to find the proposition dismantled by the internet itself. The Pass builds extras around a formal album release date, and packages everything into a multi-week program.
But all of that [...]
I know I shouldn’t have a favorite, but I do. I can’t help it. I mean, just look at her:
More puppies - just waiting to be adopted! - over at Newscoma.
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We’re back! And so far it doesn’t look like jet lag should be too much of an issue: I’ve been up since 8 AM this morning, which is a little later than usual for me, but only by an hour or so. Karsten is still sleeping, but this is fairly [...]
This has been an odd vacation: I’ve been struggling with still being sick (I came down with a virus infection less than a week before we left) and with having no energy due to weirdness with the timing of taking my Synthroid.
The Synthroid thing really threw me — hard. [...]
Idea borrowed from Jae from her updates about her most recent vacation. I love the idea of documenting highlights, but not bothering to write up whole sentences and paragraphs to describe what can be 90% summed up in loose phrases.
Day 1:
Survived 14 hour flight with massive head congestion: blew [...]
The woman sitting next to me in the doctor’s office waiting room
noticed all this writing on the cover of this issue of Newsweek. Maybe
people are so used to commenting [...]
Teaching girls how to make a video fir YouTube. Rock on.
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From the cushiony comfort of my home office chair. Bill paying can
wait.
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Cover of Sacred Songs
Never seen h monthly before, but they came up on a Google News alert for Daryl Hall (yes, I do care that much, shut up) and had a well-written quick review of Hall’s Sacred [...]
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From an article on writing the perfect pop song in the Guardian:
For Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, songwriting is not a choice, but a therapeutic necessity. “When I’m not writing songs, it’s [...]
(I can’t believe it’s been THAT long since I updated here.)
It was a crazy productive weekend, and to reward myself for my diligence yesterday, I spent all evening writing lyrics. By hand. On paper. With a pen!
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See this stuff? This Kala Namak black mineral salt? I bought it
because the copy on the packaging says "The distinctive smell and
flavor of eggs makes [...]
I finally got an inbox to zero! It won’t last very long, so I made sure to take a screenshot.
I’ve still got my work inbox to whittle down, but that’s for later. I have to go dance a little jig first.
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My coworkers gave me a bottle of Marc Jacobs perfume from my Amazon wish list during our holiday party last week. Karsten gave me a bottle of Prada perfume (also from my Amazon wish list) [...]
Everyone who knows I’m a Hall and Oates super-fan keeps asking if I saw them on the Daily Show the other night. Never fear, I just did.
I loved it! (OK, I loved it in spite of it seeming like they could have [...]
"I used to think if I ever got cancer I would lay down and roll into a ball," she said. "But you can't. That is not an option."
During the tests, [...]
Levi Weaver (image from leviweaver.com)
Excerpt from a cool review of our friend Levi Weaver’s 10/21 show at Alphabet Lounge over at the CMJ Staff Blog:
Weaver is one of those artists you need to see live to [...]
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I’m making a pizza (not the one pictured, although DON’T I WISH!), and I don’t have any music playing. This is most unusual. As I wander over to the laptop to remedy this situation, I thought I’d [...]
By somewhat popular request (OK: two people), I’m capturing the Twitter song here in my songwriting blog.
I’ve been trying to do better about keeping the content of this blog related to Honey Bowtie Music, meaning Karsten’s and my writing, our pitching & publishing, and our life [...]
Even the bathroom icon people are pretty sophisticated.
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“Suppression is very American. … If you don’t like abortion, don’t
have one. … Why should it matter to straight couples if gay couples
get married?” - [...]
My dad died three years ago today. That’s going to linger with me all day anyway, but especially because my dad, despite conservative leanings, was already impressed with Obama back then. I bet he would be feeling happy and proud today, and crying like a baby.
I really liked Obama’s [...]
It could just be the DayQuil talking, but I think I’m going to undertake NaSoWriMo (as in, 30 songs in 30 days) AND, uh, let’s call it NaBooWriMo (as in, attempt to finish a first draft of a book) at the same time this year. After all, I like to [...]
STUDS TERKEL: Studs Terkel dead — chicagotribune.com:
The author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. “My epitaph? My epitaph will be ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat,’” he once said.
I stood in line behind Studs Terkel at Treasure Island once when I was in college. I was looking [...]
Went to Metro Archives over lunch to meet with a woman named Debie Cox. Karsten was put in touch with her by someone at a party when he mentioned that we’d had little success [...]
Sweet carving job on a pumpkin at Sitening HQ.
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Amazon has been doing some tinkering again, this time to their Account page. This set of tweaks was long overdue. They didn’t change the functionality of the page; just its organization and readability. But I noticed, as I hit my [...]
I hate to copy the post outright but it’s so short, and the whole quote is just hilarious. Because it’s so true.
From Seth’s Blog: “Trying to convince a CEO of anything is a little like trying to convince a cop not to give you a ticket. It’s possible, but [...]
Mr. Dill wrote “Long Black Veil” with Marijohn Wilkin, a that song has been recorded by Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Jerry Garcia and a slew of others. His “Detroit City,” written with Mel Tillis, became a standard when recorded by Bobby Bare. Largely on the [...]
From the Sitening blog:
Sure, sure, I’m excited about “the focus we’re going to be able to apply” and joining “such a talented group of web professionals.” Whatever. The real reason this rocks [...]
We’ve changed the blog name to better reflect the renewed focus on songwriting and music and hoping to attract fewer visitors from Google looking for advice on how to care for bee hives. (Yeah, I mean it.) Now to write some more posts for those visitors who ARE coming here [...]
Some time ago, I wrote that I was abandoning the leading software for songwriting: MasterWriter. I proposed a few alternatives, but in reality, those have turned out to be disappointing for the purpose, as well.
I’m just wondering what I’m overlooking. Yesterday I found Minim, which looked promising, but [...]
From Mi2N, the Music Industry News Network comes this release. Wondering how it was determined?
The list was compiled by Cashbox chart archivist Randy Price using a progressive inverse point system applied to the positions each record held on the weekly Top 100 charts. In addition, a compensation factor [...]
I briefly skipped across something in a feed a few days back referring to this, but I didn’t realize what song the campaign was using, which means I didn’t realize the songwriter in question is none other than my neighbor, Gretchen Peters.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Once again, nice [...]
Our garden has gone almost all summer without maintenance (darn my
pesky thyroid), and it really shows. We haven’t been too concerned
about it, figuring my health us more important [...]
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I’m telling you: our conference room is COLD!
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The hospital discharged me early yesterday evening. Karsten has had his hands full ever since. Keep him in your thoughts. 
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My new walrus friend is keeping me company in the hospital, wrapped up
in all the scarves I’m going to be wearing for a while.
They were going to let [...]
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Note both shoes and helmet in basket. Good times.
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Riding bike barefoot = summer
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[...]I want to reduce my gas consumption and my carbon footprint. [...]
Little by little, I’m getting talked out of my bike commuting plans. Several people in the past few weeks have expressed concern over the lack of shoulder in several places on the road I’d be riding along with the speed of traffic on the road, particularly relative to a [...]
Drinkhaus - our new neighborhood coffee shop
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Very excited about this cool new coffee shop with tasty drinks and a
lot of style.
Check it out: http://www.drinkhaus.com/
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Karsten’s father passed away yesterday. He was 84, and he’d been dealing with a variety of illnesses including emphysema (despite having never smoked a day in his life) and prostate cancer (which he beat — it was the treatment that led to complications). So while his death was not entirely [...]
My first article in Circulation Management’s “Monday Morning Expert” column is now up on their web site:
Can’t believe anyone believes a word I say with a promo picture like that.
Joe & Karsten looking up drink recipes online; others playing poker;
others experimenting with mixed drinks in the kitchen…good party.
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I don’t know how I missed the news that my favorite local cafe and patisserie, Provence, is now partnering with Intelligentsia Coffee. From Chicago. It’s my favorite coffee EV-AR.
I detect the need to modify my daily commute so that I head downtown before leaving the city on [...]
That is a hell of a big piece of cake.
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I got email this morning from an editor at Circulation Management asking for clarification on some of the points from the presentation at the Circulation Management show in Chicago a few weeks ago, and since I was writing up some thoughts for her, I thought I’d put [...]
Sometime between yesterday morning and this morning, our freezer had an identity crisis. It decided it was a refrigerator, and that it would act accordingly.
So this morning, we had goddess-knows-how-many pounds of thawed food to figure out what to do with. I cooked up all the fake breakfast sausage [...]
My neck and throat feel all puffy and swollen today, for some reason, even though they don’t really look any different. Still, I keep making jokes to Karsten about it, like asking while he drives if my neck is blocking his view of the road — stuff like that. He [...]
Well, I just scheduled my thyroidectomy. October 2nd, 8 AM. I have to be there by 6:30, apparently. The nurse told me it’s “at least” a three-hour procedure. But I guess I’ll be knocked out so I probably won’t care how long it takes, really.
Gulp.
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I’ve only done one practice ride and I didn’t even make it all the way, but I think it’s still feasible enough to say it out loud: I [...]
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The Nashville Feed has a great entry today about the “science” of cutting a killer demo, but the write-up goes on to demonstrate that it’s really anything but science. Several anecdotes from hit songwriters and producers nail the dilemma: music professionals often claim to prefer a work tape, because [...]
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(tags: ecommerce lolcats marketing [...] Seen this?
It’s Yahoo’s SearchMonkey program. Hmm. “Searchmonkey.” That’s kind of cute… and very familiar! Where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah! Here:
I’m not bitter, though. They can have it. What with Yahoo’s current difficulties, it’ll probably do them about as [...]
Whenever we have veggie dogs at Zackie’s, this Tastykake display
taunts me.
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Baxter makes us all look bad.
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