If you dig Billy Joel, then listening to this (and reading the article attached to it) will be well worth your time. If you don’t dig Billy Joel (who, as I understand it, has been accused of being a bit of a douchebag), I encourage you to give this a spin.
How about that Sinatra impersonation?
To the Long Islanders in the crowd: this song really is a Long Islander’s song about Manhattan, am I right? I really get this song; it encapsulates a lot of what I really love about my Ancestral Homeland.
Shortly, my old friend Eric Wybenga is (hopefully) going to join onto my site as a subscriber. He’s a writer, and a good one–always has been.
He’s (also hopefully) going to be one of a bunch of friends and professionals talking about what they’re doing here: asking questions, talking shit, engaging with other friends and professionals about whatever happens to come up.
Which leads me to –
The one we’re running with, at roughly the size it’ll be seen.
This will be what Eric’s tag/logo will be for his posts here (for the moment). I had imagined that, as people show up, I’d give them one of these to use here–if they don’t have one of their own they’d like to use instead. This decision has already led to some interesting graphic design questions.
See, Eric’s colorblind. So, when I presented him with my first set of colors and choices for his logo …
The one in the upper right reeeally doesn’t work, and I sorta knew it wouldn’t, but due diligence demanded I show it.
… this was his reply.
Nice.I choose yellow (? still colorblind…) “E.” And I’m gonna check out Chris’s posts now. Psyched.
So, this: what started as CMYK Yellow in Illustrator, and a dark, mudded-up blue/green.
It’s hard to miss at this size, isn’t it?
Thoughts, everyone? Eric?
So currently I’m listening to this mighty record:
Thanks to Wikipedia for publishing the .png with the least artifacts in it.
There’s quite a bit of it that kicks ass. This the record of theirs that I enjoy the most. It’s the only one I play with any regularity, though (I have three). And I rarely listen to the entire record; five songs, maybe six.
Why isn’t this band ruling the world? Their ability to put together a riff/song/concept album/any other thing they’d like to do is not in question. I think their musicianship is hard to match. No One Knows is a 4 minute full-on rampage. So why are they not ruling the world of rock and roll?
Thoughts?