Archive for February, 2003

Why popular music sucks

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

This is why popular music sucks, from Fortune.com :
Lowry Mays is the Big Daddy of radio. The founder and CEO of Clear Channel, Mays oversees 1,233 radio stations with some 100 million listeners across all 50 states, and runs a company with $8 billion in revenues and a $23 billion market cap. But ask […]

Thoughts On The Grammys

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

That was a surprisingly dignified awards ceremony. I haven’t watched the Grammy awards in years (for good reason). The only things I’ve seen recently
are clips from the MTV awards, which are usually just a mixture of lip syncing, softcore porn and seizure inducing blinking lights. This wasn’t too bad a show though, Nelly “performance” aside. […]

“But we can’t go surfin’ cuz its 20 below”

Tuesday, February 18th, 2003

It’s reading week. I’m home in Niagara Falls and trying not to fall into that “back in highschool” funk that I always seem to get. I think the fact that I had to bring all this work home has helped (I’ve been coding in Java all afternoon. Which, compared to coding in C or Assembler, […]

Developments

Wednesday, February 12th, 2003

So I got a very promising internship at Sybase in Waterloo. I’m excited and VERY pleased that it all worked out so well (I had some good competetion I
was up against). This means 2 things. Firstly I need a car, that dosen’t thrill me really. Secondly I’ll be in Guelph this summer, which rocks the […]

More later but…

Friday, February 7th, 2003

Sometimes, my friends, life seems to favor you. I got a job offer today that I couldnt be happier with AND Matador’s posted an MP3 from the new New Pornographers album.
What more could you want? More to come.
Spinning:
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
Reggie & The Full Effect - Under The Tray