On the subject of blogging....
So part of this not-having-a-traditional-job existence that I'm living in right now is that, every now and again, a friend of someone I know will ring me up and want to get to know me. Sometimes it's because they're feeling me out for some sort of job, other times they just want to hear my opinion on something related to the decline of record labels or some such thing and other times it's just good old fashioned networking.
Back when I was living in NY my best friend Richard tried to hook me up with a colleague of his named Andrew Paulson, a US expat living in Russia who has some big ideas about reinventing digital music retail. Andrew had also recently worked out a deal with Live Journal to run Live Journal in Russia. Well, through a totally-unrelated-to-my-best-friend connection someone else told Andrew about me and this past Saturday we met for breakfast at The Chateau Marmont (tres-chic, no?)
First off, and perhaps most interesting (as I've been using Live Journal for, like, 6 years now), his company, Sup, recently acquired Live Journal. Was nice to be able to tell him that I used Live Journal for blogging. And his big plan to change the face of digital music retail seems to be solid. The one hour breakfast turned into a 3 hour conversation that ended only because we each had other things to do. It's the sort of company I can actually see myself working with but the position would have to be appropriate. We'll see what happens.
Interesting the way divergent worlds collide sometime.
Also interesting was the 15 minutes it took me to get from La Brea & Sunset to Crescent Heights & Sunset. I have no idea what all the police activity was for but the strange "checkpoint" that reminded me of that checkpoint you hit driving North on the 5 from San Diego, was amusing, to say the least.
I love this city.
Back when I was living in NY my best friend Richard tried to hook me up with a colleague of his named Andrew Paulson, a US expat living in Russia who has some big ideas about reinventing digital music retail. Andrew had also recently worked out a deal with Live Journal to run Live Journal in Russia. Well, through a totally-unrelated-to-my-best-friend connection someone else told Andrew about me and this past Saturday we met for breakfast at The Chateau Marmont (tres-chic, no?)
First off, and perhaps most interesting (as I've been using Live Journal for, like, 6 years now), his company, Sup, recently acquired Live Journal. Was nice to be able to tell him that I used Live Journal for blogging. And his big plan to change the face of digital music retail seems to be solid. The one hour breakfast turned into a 3 hour conversation that ended only because we each had other things to do. It's the sort of company I can actually see myself working with but the position would have to be appropriate. We'll see what happens.
Interesting the way divergent worlds collide sometime.
Also interesting was the 15 minutes it took me to get from La Brea & Sunset to Crescent Heights & Sunset. I have no idea what all the police activity was for but the strange "checkpoint" that reminded me of that checkpoint you hit driving North on the 5 from San Diego, was amusing, to say the least.
I love this city.