Archives for August 2007
Update: Here is Yusuf Islam singing the other role in “Father and Son”
After Missy commented on my last post, which had a brief discussion of Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, I turned to Veoh and found the Ronan Keating and Yusuf Islam duet of “Father and Son,” in which Islam/Stevens takes on the other perspective, the father’s, than his original.
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I also found him performing the song [...]
Sometimes the media stay the same and the change is in YOU
Fair warning, y’all, this here is a post that combines the personal and the theoretical.
Recently, I bought the new Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) album, “An Other Cup.” If you liked his old stuff, you’ll like this. Since he left the world stage in the 1970s, Yusuf Islam has had four children, and recently that’s [...]
Golly… I’m in USA Today
A couple weeks ago when I was at ad:tech Chicago, I unexpectedly found myself chatting with Theresa Howard, a technology reporter for USA Today. I lost track of the whens and whats we’d been discussing and then, lo and behold, my vanity Google alert (I admit it, I’m vain… and being quoted in USA Today [...]
Can’t. Stop. Checking. Facebook…
Well, OK, actually I CAN stop checking–at least, I can anytime I want to, I know I can… why do you doubt me?–but I think my circle of online Facebook friends finally hit some kind of critical mass because earlier today I found myself adding and checking and sending messages obsessively.
I’ve been on LinkedIn and [...]
Yes, box office is up this summer, but don’t get comfy
Variety Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart’s Monday column on the surprising health of the summer movie box office entirely misses the point. True, box office is up this summer, but the real story here is with the consolidation of tickets sold among a mere handful of movies.
Both culturally and on an entertainment-industry wide basis, we’re seeing a [...]
