When I was little I figured time was best measured in 30 minute increments. If you had 30 minutes of time on your hands you had enough time to have fun or get something done.

The measurements were based on television time slots. The Simpson’s was my show of choice and a 30 minutes well spent. Often when calculating the negative impact of doing things things that I didn’t want to do, like a doctor appointment, I would figure how many simpsons episodes I would be missing.

There is a new article about “The Future of Music” everyday. Every once in a while something is written on the topic that seems to indicate a bench mark in the discussion, something with a little perspective. A recent ReadWriteWeb article has some of these qualities. The article specifically deals with the online aspect of the future of music and what types of services we may see more of.

[Picture from a section of the article titled "Legal Battles With Record Labels"]

I’m back from Cali. Gone so quick, some might not have known that I had left. I had a great time seeing friends and family and visiting San Fransisco, San Jose, and surrounding areas. Starschreck will resume per usual with delicious (is this what we’re calling it now?) links, posts, and with new work on it’s way.

Conversational highlight of the trip (approximation):

Dan: I don’t think there is a cloud in the sky!

Anonymous: Yeh, it’s beautiful and sunny like this every day out here. It’s so beautiful all the time it can get sort of depressing.

I was looking through some of the music that I have on my computer. I came across some strange genres that I wanted to list here. It looks like some of them only apply to a single artist. Number 6 is pretty good.

1. Dark-Hop
2. default
3. Electronica & Dance
4. Electronica/Dance
5. Gallery Rap
6. Music
7. Musik für Kinder
8. Not Your Average Hip Hop
9. Sexuality

Anybody else have any ones worthy of note?

Approaching graduation, I find myself thinking about my years at art school and the things I’ve learned there.

We had this assignment in my first ever class at SAIC. It was a reading that basically said (at least, this is my memory of it 4 years later) just because it’s art that doesn’t mean it’s good. Looking back it was the perfect article for a first year class—welcome to art school you young punks. It’s a perspective I now take for granted. At the time, however, I remember it coming as a bit of a blow. It certainly went against a lot of what I thought of artmaking at the time.

The reading was “frivolity and unction” from Dave Hickey’s book Air Guitar.