The Walton Firm Memos

“I think selling out is pretty much a dead concept,” said the panel’s moderator, Rob Levine.
It’s okay everyone, Rob Levine said it’s ok, and not a moment to soon might I add. I’ve been sitting here on this sort of upbeat, dancey elctro-pop thing for which the new energy drink, Twitpocalypse has just been pounding [...]

This piece on time perception briefly touches on how in a high-adrenaline situation, people get a kind of heightened focus and clarity:
In a critical situation, a walnut-size area of the brain called the amygdala kicks into high gear, … forcing everything to attend to the situation at hand. When the amygdala gets involved, memories are [...]

okay, so say you have a niche-audience album on your hands that will only sell a small volume, and needs to have at least 20 free copies for the people who helped make it, and also takes up two cd’s. How can you produce a presentable-looking, good quality, affordable product? well theres really only one rule to [...]

Finished making an Orcateers song for a Cereal Records compilation that should be out soon, featuring a while bunch of good folks.

It can be listened to Here…

with the quote coming from my new favorite book:

Seriously, support Charles Robinson. The world needs more people who can look at every single object and think “I wonder how I could hide some money or a gun in that”. Most instruction books pad the content with verbose introductions, but Charles aint having it. He [...]

Before it gets too far away, there was another thing I wanted to mention about Infinite Jest, particularly the fish joke that appears on page 445:
Robert F./Bob Death asks Gately if by any chance he’s heard the one about the fish…He leans in more toward Gately and shouts that the one he was talking about [...]

I got mail from my friend Travis. It’s a copy of his new music project. I’m not too good at describing music, so let me just say it is a rock record, that is not a joke, and very interesting. Most people these days struggle to balance two of those elements, let alone all three. [...]

Here is a sampling of usenet groups that currently have only one member, in case anyone was looking for a new hobby. Im not going to riff and ramble about all this, just wanted to enjoy the ol’ slice of life:
All About Peafowl
A group for all those people out there wanting to know more [...]

I just finished reading Infinite Jest for the second time. The first time I read it it was sort of just generally impressive, and made me a lot more interested in reading books in general, but was really far too much material for me to really absorb. The second time through was a lot cooler, [...]