yacht vs. analog industries

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1232779669878

i found this blog post pretty interesting. in my circle of friends and co workers and acquaintances the idea that musicians deserve a living wage comes up quite a bit, but i never hear about software designers deserving a living wage.
any how, i think this raises a few questions...
do 1's and 0's used to make music have the same value as guitars or drums or the computers that use the 1's and 0's? maybe not but i think they could at least equate to an effects pedal or something...
is it unethical to use pirated software to make music that you then license to commercials?
shouldn't people who make money off of licensing and playing festivals be able to afford these programs in the first place? it seems to me like they should.

i'm not sure where i stand on most of this stuff right now... i am hoping that this at least causes some discussion.

we miss you spider-maggie!!

come home soon!

marnie stern mentioned on fox news

the funniest part is when the guy does a finger tapping guitar noise with his mouth after saying her name.

krs sick daze

times are tough at the krs portland office. portia was sick last weekend and now ingrid and i are both sick. i think i'm going to head home once all these videos are done uploading to yousendit... hopefully the sickness doesn't spread over the internet to the olympia mailorder office or lauren's licensing fortress in nyc...

france loves spidey too

sorry for the blurriness, but this has to be the weirdest car ever on a merry-go-round.  donald duck spidey in overalls?  this was on the boardwalk in cannes...

bird list 1/23/09 durham NC

so it must be obvious by quippage alone that i am not digging
durham
however
one consolation about moving would be that there are different birds in the southeast
than there are in the west. but it is nice to see familiar faces too.
thank you remaining and feeble biodiversity
mind you these are all common feathered friends but i see them as friends nonetheless.
thank you seed and bug eaters for getting me past my hollow, geographically strained heart
eh hem- thee...
white throated sparrow
white crowned sparrow
slate colored junco
white winged junco
cardinal
yellow throated warbler
pine warbler
solitary vireo
cedar waxwing
eastern bluebird
hermit thrush
robin
mockingbird
carolina wren
red breated nuthatch
white breated nuthatch
tufted titmouse
carolina chickadee
eastern phoebe
downy woodpecker
yellow bellied sapsucker
mourning dove
great blue heron

xiu xiu book club

thank you !!!!! the pyramid is on the verge of collapse!
jack
the return of depression economics by paul krugman
elementary particles
jason
flannery o'connor complete stories by
4 dada suicides by Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché
josh
the taoist body by kristofer schipper
slim
jps hebrew-english tanakh, particularly the torah 5 books of moses, in tandem with the bedside torah by rabbi bradley shavit artson
heather
invisible cities - italo calvino
the rise of the creative class - richard florida
man and his symbols - c g jung
on kissing, tickling, and being bored - adam philips
total work of art - matthew wilson smith
lance
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel written by amy hempel
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
kristen
the sun also rises" -hemingway
"laurier blanc" (white oleander) janet fitch .
"the teaching of buddha" -bukkyo dendo kyokai
sam
One Place After Another: site specific art and locational identity (miwon kwon)
Norwegian wood (Hauki Murakami)
Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road. Dharma Bums. Subterraneans. Tristessa. Lonesome Traveler. (Jack Kerouac)
Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
jay
Roadmap to Korean by Richard Harris
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
melissa
hopscotch by julio cortázar
iona
the exterminator by william burroughs
john
"Ecrits poétiques" by Christophe Tarkos.
jared
city dreaming /sonic youth
daniel
the dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution by shulamith firestone
abrasive
friedrich nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra
timothy j. lambert - best gay erotica 07
mason
pimp by ice berg slim
kevin
"i am currently reading the local penny savers every day because i am fucking broke"
aviv
east of eden by john steinbeck
thomas
Noise/Music: A History by Paul Hegarty
The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe by Humphrey Richardson
matea
Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth
Oscar Wilde - the picture of dorian gray
Hector Oesterheld - The eternaut
matylda ("i am not dead", j.s.)
birds through a ceiling of alabaster
the mysterious flame of queen loana by umberto eco
bieguni by olga tokarczuk
the shanghai union industrial mystics by nury vittachi
ken
"Organic Chemistry" by John McMurray
"Cellular and Molecular Immunology" by Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, and Shiv Pillai
"Grendel" by John Gardner
"Kusamakura" by Natsume Soseki
"Cane" by Jean Toomer
"Dictee" by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

bush leaves office, royal trux's first two albums get reissued, and lost has a season premiere all in the same week

also superman beyond #2 by grant morrison comes out tomorrow.
COULD THIS BE THE #1 WEEK OF ALL TIME???
now all my top r.i.p.s of the last few years just need to come back as zombies, i guess...

you can let the door hit you on the way out...

just saying.

question

if you were a band would you rather have 100,000 fans but only sell 1,000 records, or have only 10,000 fans, but every one of them buys the record?

xiu xiu book club

please send (willitburn@hotmail.com)
me
a (reasonably sized) photo
of what you are reading
along
with
the author and title.
this are/is my current
pyramid.
please add to it.









sweet tea
black gay men of the south
by e. patrick johnson











blue bamboo by osamu dazai




















sex trafficking
inside the buisness
of modern slavery
by
siddharth kara









comfort and critique
by
peter sotos








the sound and the fury
by
kermit the frog

house party 2849 ne davis, portland,,, with panther.....fist fite,,,,captains daughter....FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

party like these guys

FRIDAY!!

mika miko tour dates

they're playing some shows w/ FUCKED UP.

Jan 17 2009 8:00P
Echoplex Hang the DJ’s Champagne & Strawberries Party! Echo Park, California
Jan 25 2009 9:00P
THE SMELL w/ NO AGE, Abe Vigoda, DSS, Rings Los Angeles, California
Feb 3 2009 8:00P
Phix Gallery w/ Fucked Up Phoenix, Arizona
Feb 4 2009 8:00P
The Casbah w/ Fucked Up San Diego, California
Feb 6 2009 8:00P
The Echo w/ Fucked Up Los Angeles, California
Feb 7 2009 8:00P
Pomona Elk’s Lodge w/ Fucked Up Pomona, California
Feb 8 2009 8:00P
The Independent w/ Fucked Up San Francisco, California
Mar 4 2009 8:00P
UCLA w/ The Mae Shi! Westwood, California

ummm

seriously?

i'm starting to wonder if i voted for the wrong dude (not that i'm implying you can only vote for 1 of 2 people, obviously... also i'm using the non gender/sex specific dude as opposed to the implied male dude...)
hopefully tomorrow's obama/spider man team up will change my mind?