Via MetaFilter comes the sad news that Automatic Media has fired all of its employees – employees who have reportedly gone unpaid for several months. As anyone who reads here regularly knows, Automatic Media is the parent of Feed, Suck, and Plastic. Someone pointed to today’s Hit & Run at MeFi as well, where I found the following prescient (or foreshadowing) quote: But – and this is a lesson that’s bound to sink into our tiny little heads at some point – content is hard, time is valuable and neither love nor money can make the Web matter more than a good night’s sleep.
Archives for June 2001
A hale and hearty welcome
to The Mirror Project, now live after several months of hard work. Congratulations to Heather on the launch and props to Aaron for the work he contributed!
I’m in pics 31, 32, and 200.
Zeldman
Zeldman you fucker. It’s an excellent, and accurate, fan letter. [via consolationchamps, a writer of which I’ve been meaning to email for a while now]
I had a rare
opportunity to see Ron Sexsmith last night at the Cabaret, a nice cozy room just down the street from me. It was great to see him live – I missed what has become a legendary show he played about 4 yrs ago at a now-defunct space called Isart. He seemed a little hemmed in by his band – his solo songs were better, and although the band was OK, they seemed to put a box around him a bit more than I would have liked. Probably just a lack of familiarity – the guitar and bass were pretty new. Incidentally, the bassist (Maury LeFoy) used to play in my friend Ian’s band, Starling.
In case it’s not obvious, I (and many others) consider Ron Sexsmith to be among the very best songwriters and performers of the past several years. You could say he’s like the demon spawn of Brian Wilson, Tom Waits (who he covered last night) and Neil Young (maybe), but that wouldn’t be quite right. I can leave his first CD (or his third, for that matter) in my car for weeks and listen to it over and over – it’s never boring. Just in case it wasn’t clear.
I forgot to note
that the third installment of Mitch Stephens’ This is Planet Earth, The Little Slit in the Americas, was published at Feed. It’s not as interesting as the others, but still a worthwhile read.
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