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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Sometimes, I Don't Hate My Day Job

Sure, being a total lackey at Harvard Law School is a lot like being a medieval serf, and being a 33-year old secretary sometimes makes me want to hang myself in the men's room, but every now and then, there's a perk or two that make it moderately less humiliating.

To wit: Erin Judge, a funny comic who also works here, hooked me up with a name badge so I could get into a debate on campus between John Perry Barlow of the EFF (one of my personal rock star Jesuses...Jesi?) and Cary Sherman of the RIAA. Sherman bowed out at the last second, citing airport closure concerns (which I buy...there's a goddamn hurricane coming), but Barlow was still astounding. He's so passionate and smart, and he's got the moral weight of being a successful musician that's actively encouraged free sharing of his music for years. The highlight of the session was his assertion that music isn't a product to be consumed, that at its best, it's a verb and a direct communication between his heart and his listener's, and that the Internet and digital recording make it possible to make all of human history available to all humanity, and that that goal should trump trying to prop up a broken music industry.

Poetically or ironically, based on your perspective, I used my minidisc recorder to record the whole thing, and will encode it as an MP3 tonight after the show.

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LISTENING STATION

SCATTERBRAIN (2006) - Selected Tracks

POOR IMPULSE CONTROL(2001) - Whole Damn Thing!

To buy Scatterbrain, click here (or here for iTunes). The actual CD is the only place you can hear Nagasaki, the semi-famous bonus track. Poor Impulse Control is sold out (unless you're crazy). If you just enjoy listening here, why not drop a buck or two in my tip jar, you stingy bastard?