Fastest Finger
Completing my trilogy of favorites of the decade (Oops, sorry Stacy! I meant to say "10 year period with the same digit in the second column".) is my 40 favorite books of the '00s. This was the most tedious list to compile because publication dates are notoriously fickle and I had to look almost everything up and abide by what Amazon said was the
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I am this artistic purist that you speak of. Never have been a member of the mainstream, and I don't care for my artists to be a part of that either. i don't use equalizer settings in playback because i believe that corrupts what the artist created. One album at a time, from start to finish.
People will always have stories to tell and art to create. You are right that the written word will never go away. I actually welcome new advances in technology to help us consume and create them more easily. The costs of entry are lower than they ever were, and the future of art and culture is now in the hands of the many, not the privileged and wealthy few. Alan Moore said it much more eloquently here:
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/alan-moore-dodgem-logic/
There are numerous and obvious reasons to dislike hulu, netflix on demand, itunes, and kindle. The only electronic media that I believe in is Valve Software's "Steam" service. It's like itunes for computer games. I can redownload and reinstall the games I bought as many times as i want because ownership of the games is tied to my account. I don't need to remind anyone that itunes is a pay once download once service. So when I bought a new computer, I set it to download/install my games for me overnight. No need for serial numbers, shuffling CDs or finding update patches (all automatic). There's no way I'm going back to buying a CD at the store when it costs the same or less to do this. If only World of Warcraft was done like this tooooo....
New technology has always been a gimmick to sell people on entertainment. Widescreen movies and stereo sound were a lure to get people back into theaters when there was increasing competition from television. I wish I had a video link for this song that I saw once on PBS:
"Cole Porter memorialized the era in the song Stereophonic Sound from the 1955 Broadway musical Silk Stockings:
If Zanuck's latest picture were the good old-fashioned kind,
There'd be no one in front to look at Marilyn's behind.
If you want to hear applauding hands resound
You've gotta have glorious Technicolor,
Breathtaking Cinemascope and
Stereophonic sound."
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