This is the full copy of a retrospective on To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration, which will be excerpted in Gary McGath's upcoming ebook on filk history.In 1997, I formed Prometheus Music. My goal was to take filk to a professional level, at a time in which filk albums were rarely as professionally produced as today. I ( Read more... )

Volume 16 - Issue 1 ( Read more... )

I sent this e-mail to sjobs@apple.com ( Read more... )

So Thursday night I'm at the Streets for All Seattle kickoff party and this woman I'm talking to asks:

"So where did you live in the Netherlands again?"

Me: "Enschede"

Her: "Oh wow, Amsterdam! I've always wanted to go to Amsterdam!"

Me: "No, Enschede!"

Her: "Amsterdam, right?"

First time I've ever been turned down for a credit card: what an alternate universe -- paying off your bill in full and in a timely fashion qualifies you as a deadbeat in their universe ( Read more... )

Dear Lazyweb ( Read more... )

Dear CSS lazyweb ( Read more... )

For friends from the filk world…When I lived in California, I used to go to Amoeba Records on weekends and pick up used Celtic/Folk/New Age & Harp music CDs that looked interesting to someone with filk/folk-oriented taste. In the iPod era, these CDs have been sitting in boxes in my closet. I'd like to offer these for $60/box (+ $5 media mail ( Read more... )

CD Baby has sadly become a case study of cluelessness after Derek Sivers dumped it on Discmakers to wreck ( Read more... )

...I would have already made a $25 profit on my webhosting this past week alone.

Instead, I'm wasting $20/month of our customers' money on a service that's still inferior to what many companies charge just $5-$7 per month these days -- not to mention the fact that it's constantly offline anyway.

If you're a musician, don't bother giving your ( Read more... )