Easy. Sluggy is too verbose. I don't have time to read all that dialogue. PA delivers the chuckles with a minimum of effort.
Also, I don't enjoy his cartooning style as much. That's just my opinion, but it's pretty easy to agree PA has a much more "polished" feel.
Just wanted to say hey from a fellow musician who feels where you're coming from. I play in an extremely obscure "art" genre (ambient improv), so success just isn't something I dream of. I'm happy if I get 20 people nodding their heads at a free show on a Saturday night.
So given that, I thought I'd weigh in on your collective comments in this thread --
First off, the online promotion *does* work, in that you got me to download and listen to your music. What you have to accept is that because of the musical route you've chosen, the majority of people aren't going to like the free sample enough to buy more.
There are a few ways you could improve this, mostly by releasing a shorter track that focuses on a catchy hook (that's all the critique I'll force on you unless you want to hear more.)
But mostly, jazz/world music-influenced dnb just isn't going to grab a mass audience anytime soon. Unless you want to focus your band on a narrower-but-more-popular genre, such as straight ahead dnb/breaks, you'll just have to live with being, at best, a respected player on the jam-band scene.
Which is also a decent way to make money, and you can still use the internet for promotion, just in a more focused way than trawling/. for musically-enlightened geeks.
For example, in California 4,403,495 voters voted for Bush, but since Bush lost, all California electoral votes (55) went to Kerry. In Illinois, only 2,826,757 voters voted for Kerry, but all of Illinois' electoral votes (21) went to Kerry anyway. So, in effect, just under 3 million voters in Illinois have had more influence over the election than ~4.4 million voters in California, whose votes literally didn't count in the electoral vote tally.
Complete nonsense. How did California's votes not count? Kerry couldn't have won without them. I don't understand the logical leap where you discount all states but the battleground states. If Californians got together and decided that Kerry wasn't liberal enough for them, and that they should all vote Nader, what would happen then?
putting most of the discussions that are affecting much larger numbers of people untouched.
You say that like it were some strange hypothetical situation -- it just happened, so give some examples! What discussions went untouched? What seems to happen is the candidates first make sure their campaign hits the liberal|conservative issues of "their" liberal|conservative states, then they mostly fight over the battleground states by seeing who can visit and deliver the most platitudes to each.
How do the battleground states drown out the more populous ones? Does Texas suffer because Bush barely needs to campaign there? Or California because there's no point for him to?
Have you ever watched a professional photographer? They just snap away, rapid fire. Guess how many of those get published...
Granted, they're not as likely to be throwing away pictures because of amateur mistakes, but the axiom is still true: the best way to take good photos is to take many photos.
I'm not exactly sure what point you were really making, but the point Jobs was making was that 9 out of 10 acts don't even make enough to pay back the record label, in which case the label is out the money.
yes, they still manage to cover it all by turning out a few hits, but the point of the article was that it's a ridiculous way to run an industry.
Charles Bukowski from You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, 1986, p 103
16-Bit Intel 8088 Chip
with an Apple Macintosh you can't run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M operating system but can't read each other's handwriting for they format (write on) discs in different ways. the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but can't use most programs produced for the IBM Personal Computer unless certain bits and bytes are altered but the wind still blows over Savannah and in the Spring the turkey buzzard struts and flounces before his hens.
==
Richard Brautigan from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968
At the California Institute of Technology
I don't care how God-damn smart these guys are: I'm bored.
It's been raining like hell all day long and there's nothing to do.
Written January 24, 1967 while poet-in-residence at the California Institute of Technology.
If these people are beating you up, why not press charges? Sue them, or the school?
Yeah, because the best way to gain popularity is to draw a lot of negative attention to yourself and make *real* enemies of a lot of people at the same time. (end sarcasm)
It's implicit that one wins at the popularity game on THEIR terms, not your own. "Their terms" would be returning their verbal or physical abuse with abuse of your own. Just stand up for yourself once or twice, and the bullies look for easier targets.
Maybe winning at popularity wasn't the point, but all I can think is that suing a classmate or the school would be a good way to be hated.
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Another longtime Trackball Explorer user here. There's always Ebay (also my source for the old-style MS Natural keyboards.)
So, what's notable about the collapse of WTC 7?
Actually, first floor parking garages are quite commonly built now, as it's cheaper than building underground garages.
Easy. Sluggy is too verbose. I don't have time to read all that dialogue. PA delivers the chuckles with a minimum of effort. Also, I don't enjoy his cartooning style as much. That's just my opinion, but it's pretty easy to agree PA has a much more "polished" feel.
Just wanted to say hey from a fellow musician who feels where you're coming from. I play in an extremely obscure "art" genre (ambient improv), so success just isn't something I dream of. I'm happy if I get 20 people nodding their heads at a free show on a Saturday night.
/. for musically-enlightened geeks.
So given that, I thought I'd weigh in on your collective comments in this thread --
First off, the online promotion *does* work, in that you got me to download and listen to your music. What you have to accept is that because of the musical route you've chosen, the majority of people aren't going to like the free sample enough to buy more.
There are a few ways you could improve this, mostly by releasing a shorter track that focuses on a catchy hook (that's all the critique I'll force on you unless you want to hear more.)
But mostly, jazz/world music-influenced dnb just isn't going to grab a mass audience anytime soon. Unless you want to focus your band on a narrower-but-more-popular genre, such as straight ahead dnb/breaks, you'll just have to live with being, at best, a respected player on the jam-band scene.
Which is also a decent way to make money, and you can still use the internet for promotion, just in a more focused way than trawling
Best of luck to you!
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I remember that story... thanks for saving me the trouble of looking it up again.
Just a thought, "Radioheadkid."
How do the battleground states drown out the more populous ones? Does Texas suffer because Bush barely needs to campaign there? Or California because there's no point for him to?
Hey Brian :-)
How's the cluster coming?
on the other hand, it's possible that TMBG, being from NYC, had heard about the city of Cowtown, NJ.
Have you ever watched a professional photographer? They just snap away, rapid fire. Guess how many of those get published...
Granted, they're not as likely to be throwing away pictures because of amateur mistakes, but the axiom is still true: the best way to take good photos is to take many photos.
KDU is 800 watts? Why can't I ever pick it up outside center city/west philly?
...wow, a whole five of them!
the computer stores my thoughts as I write them, and you really ought to tone down the holier-than-thou attitude.
"brushing your teeth with Coca-cola style loving it" is my new favorite catchphrase. do I credit you, or is there an original source for it?
The moon is covered with the results of astronomical odds.
...played out over an astronomical time scale!
I'm not exactly sure what point you were really making, but the point Jobs was making was that 9 out of 10 acts don't even make enough to pay back the record label, in which case the label is out the money. yes, they still manage to cover it all by turning out a few hits, but the point of the article was that it's a ridiculous way to run an industry.
Once you've downloaded, what proof do you have that the mp3's are legal?
Charles Bukowski
from You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, 1986, p 103
16-Bit Intel 8088 Chip
with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
==
Richard Brautigan
from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968
At the California Institute of Technology
I don't care how God-damn smart
these guys are: I'm bored.
It's been raining like hell all day long
and there's nothing to do.
Written January 24, 1967
while poet-in-residence at
the California Institute of
Technology.
==
The name mozilla came from jwz at netscape. It has nothing to do with spyglass or the ncsa or mosaic.
cheers
Yeah, because the best way to gain popularity is to draw a lot of negative attention to yourself and make *real* enemies of a lot of people at the same time. (end sarcasm)
It's implicit that one wins at the popularity game on THEIR terms, not your own. "Their terms" would be returning their verbal or physical abuse with abuse of your own. Just stand up for yourself once or twice, and the bullies look for easier targets.
Maybe winning at popularity wasn't the point, but all I can think is that suing a classmate or the school would be a good way to be hated.