Once again it’s on…
Archive for the ‘T.O.N.Y.’ Category
DUCKDOWN vs. BLACKSMITH
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Telling Lies To My Vision…
Monday, October 18th, 2010
You don’t realize how many people are addicted to television until that shit gets taken away from them. People in New York and New Jersey were shitting themselves yesterday because the Fox affiliates programming had been ‘de-licensed’ from their local cable television provider.
Its easy to posit News Corporation, the owner of Fox networks and their affiliates for making their demands too great to the cable companies that license their content. Fox also went the grimy route by suspended their internet sites from those using the cable television provider’s browsers.
For someone like myself who is immersed in the interconnected networks all this chicanery means very little to me. There’s a stream of torrents for me to catch the wave with if I really needed to view Fox’ programming. But I didn’t. And I survived. I would have loved to watch professional football or the MLB playoffs but instead I went for a walk in Central Park.
Instead of playing the ‘Who Shot John’ game with the networks or the cable TV provider I turned them both off.
Anyone know who won yesterday?
I did.
All Day I Dream About SneakerCon…
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Chocolate Snowflake caught a candid shot of BluCheezTV putting in work.
And here’s the video…
Brooklyn Goes Hair’d…
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
I was on my way to SneakerCon using public transportation and this chick was having a conversation with her homegirl and all of Franklin Avenue. She had this big, ill hairdo. It was BeYonce big but not blonde. It was brown. It was a Briance. ROFFFLE
Converse To Musicians: Strike Up The Brand…
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
The sporting goods company Converse might just be ushering in a new artistic renaissance. Converse is opening a recording studio in north Brooklyn where studio time is absolutely free. Let a struggling musician tell you what their most prohibitive cost is and they will tell you about all the money they are spending for studio recording sessions.
To earn the chips needed to get into a decent studio, artists used to work at retail stores like Tower Records, Virgin Megastore or the recently shuttered FatBeats. Since no one is buying CDs any longer those stores don’t need employees, but musicians still need money to record their music.
In steps Converse as a patron of the arts. Sort of. Converse’s Chuck Taylors has been the singular shoe of musicians from punk rockers like Sid Vicious and the Ramones to pop music gangbanging rappers like Snoop Dogg and The Game. It makes me wonder if Converse is spending all of this money in order to create an anthem on the level of Run-DMC’s ‘My adidas’.
The truth is that the music industry has migrated into businesses that make money in this recession because they sell things that people are still interested in paying for. Basically everything BUT music. Converse, McDonald’s, Nike and Starbucks are the new record labels and distributors. That is, until I figure a way to download a pair of SB Dunks and a quarter pounder with cheese.
