Crazy

"When I was at SCO, people who were familiar with my music-business background used to regularly comment to me how strange it must be coming out of the music business to wind up working in the computer business since the former is so "crazy" while the latter is so "straight."

"Au contraire, I would routinely reply: the computer business (and corporate culture in general) is actually far crazier than the music business. Sure, in the music business, everyone is crazy, but they ~celebrate~ their insanity by sublimating it into writing, recording and promoting million-selling heartbreaking tunes anyone can relate to about being crazy (in love, life, or a bottle of Jim Beam), whereas in the computer business, everyone is ~just as crazy~, but they're in ~stone fucking denial~ about it -- and what's crazier than being in denial about one's own essential craziness?"

Bruce Steinberg, citado por Doc Searls.

Mucha rumba

Cómo me ha gustado el artículo en Babelia sobre la rumba catalana.



Y encima me da la excusa perfecta para meter aquí de nuevo este himno a la infancia de don Jaume Sisa, esta vez en la versión de los rumberos Sabor de Gràcia.

:-P

Ay

“The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly,” [...] “A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.”

Tony Judt (1948-2010)

Tremé overdose

Ask Ya Mom An 'Nem... (QM's Treme Mix) by Quickie Mart

Por qué escribimos...

...música:

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

 Aaron Copland (leído aquí)

(Compones porque quieres resumir de alguna manera de forma permanente tus sentimientos más básicos sobre estar vivo, dejar escrita... algún tipo de declaración permanente sobre lo que significa vivir ahora, hoy.)

También me podría valer para explicar por qué escribo en el blog.

O, siendo más precisos, por qué no escribo últimamente.

Supongo.