As I've been fond of reminding everyone I've run into the last few days (because I'm something of a smarmy shit), I have been embedded in a cabin-like structure on a hillside in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles for over two weeks now.

I can attest to the fact that it's rough out there for recorded music. As some of you may know, I founded and run a record label. As of about six months ago I was running another one as well. And about two months before that I was still lending a hand on a third label.

The problem for me is that if I follow this thing I believe I would never be able to say anything.

When people say that the internet doesn't have any culture, I respectfully disagree. i.e...

Question: What do you do when you love a cover so much that you search out the original -- BUT YOU CANNOT FIND IT? That, my friends, is why YouTube was invented.

Say what you will about Kanye being a douchebag occasionally.

We live in an era of blogs, tweets, aggregators, and Fox News. It's quite easy to exist in an ideological/cultural/sociological/psychographic bubble of your own making--one that entirely reinforces your existing systems of belief. That's why I start every morning with the Wall Street Journal.

I've been sitting on this internet meme for awhile. I've done the research. It's not an internet parody, a YouTube vid equivalent of Blades of Glory. Nope, rather this is figure skater Scott Williams' championship effort to revolutionize skating.

Excerpt from one of Deborah Solomon's infamously condensed interviews in The New York Times Magazine. (I like them.) With Douglas Coupland, famous Canadian, infamous coiner of the term Gen X.

The difference between comedians & musicians is a matter of self-esteem. I'm not sure who has more, and who has less.