Sonic Youth has been coming up on conversation amongst my friends a lot lately. One of my favorite bands. Went to a great show last nite, and met some new friends (incidentally, The Wine Loft in Nashville is a really cool hang), and again Sonic Youth came up in conversation. We spent about an hour or so discussing the Daydream Nation record, which got me all excited to go home and bust out the small collection of Sonic Youth records I own (I need to buy more of their records), and jam.
Here’s a video of Sonic Youth performing “The Sprawl” live from their 1988 hit record Daydream Nation:
Sometimes it’s not as much about putting on the most incredible live show anyone has ever seen. Sometimes who you’re sharing the bill with is not all that important. Sometimes it does not matter how many people will come out.
Sometimes it’s just about getting out and playing live, so that there is kinetic energy around your band. So that you are participating in the scene. So that the team who is managing you, marketing you, investing in you has talking points in their social circles and business contacts. [continue reading…]
I‘ve had a long day. This year has been a really long, tough year. A year of growth and challenges (good ones). And I’m exhausted.
So forgive me as I attempt to articulate a relatively disjointed and off-the-cuff thought at 1am…
As I was driving across town on the freeway tonite – making my way home – I began reflecting on what I’m trying to do in this chapter of my life. As I’ve set out to be an entrepreneur over the course of the last three years, I’ve studied the ideas shared by many brilliant entrepreneurs who have gone before me. One of the most impressive ideas I’ve picked up during this study is the idea of failure.
The reality in life is that you fail 100 times over for every success you have. That being the case, it really should not be that big of a deal. Yet failure hits our hearts so hard. We’re terrified of it. We do everything we can to avoid it when it’s utterly unavoidable. We experience constant anxiety about our work (which is the emotion of experiencing failure before it even happens – a hopelessly absurd state of mind), worried that the others we work with will come to think we’re totally incompetent if we don’t deliver an A+. [continue reading…]
If you’re spending all your time developing your skill set, and thinking about all the technicals involved with that, you’re not getting your creations out there.
I’ve fallen quarry to this for more than half my life. The first two years I spent at Belmont University, I attended as a music major. My thought process was [...]
As the week begins to roll around to a close, I feel a certain sense of completion segueing into a natural state of reflection and then giving way into more planning, due to the release of the new Mother/Father EP, Physical Heaven.
On Tuesday we said we would be adding more stores to the availability of [...]
As Physical Heaven was released yesterday, a handful of reviews on the new Mother/Father EP came in. Some went live in the weeks prior to the release, and some went live yesterday. Here’s a collection of these reviews…
From the Fans
In the weeks leading up to the release of Physical Heaven we worked with Mother/Father to [...]
We’ve been looking forward to the release date of the new Mother/Father EP, Physical Heaven for months. Well that date has arrived. And yeah, we ended up picking the same release date as the new Band of Horses record, but hey that just means if you’re a Band of Horses fan, you can throw on [...]
This one is from a just a little while back – about three months ago. Shamal Ranasinghe, co-founder of Topspin Media, did a presentation on Managing, Measuring, and Marketing With Data at the MidemNet Academy. He then published the presentation as a blog post on the Topspin blog.
The post highlights some of the features of [...]
There’s not room enough in the world for just another one.
What are you doing to make sure what you’re creating isn’t merely another one?
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Years of Conditioning (bad education)
by stinson on June 9, 2010
I‘ve had a long day. This year has been a really long, tough year. A year of growth and challenges (good ones). And I’m exhausted.
So forgive me as I attempt to articulate a relatively disjointed and off-the-cuff thought at 1am…
As I was driving across town on the freeway tonite – making my way home – I began reflecting on what I’m trying to do in this chapter of my life. As I’ve set out to be an entrepreneur over the course of the last three years, I’ve studied the ideas shared by many brilliant entrepreneurs who have gone before me. One of the most impressive ideas I’ve picked up during this study is the idea of failure.
The reality in life is that you fail 100 times over for every success you have. That being the case, it really should not be that big of a deal. Yet failure hits our hearts so hard. We’re terrified of it. We do everything we can to avoid it when it’s utterly unavoidable. We experience constant anxiety about our work (which is the emotion of experiencing failure before it even happens – a hopelessly absurd state of mind), worried that the others we work with will come to think we’re totally incompetent if we don’t deliver an A+. [continue reading…]
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