- I've been keeping an "event log" tracking all the things we do every nite since September 1, 2006 (coincidentally my wife's birthday) (no she wasn't born in 2006). As of today, since that time, we have gone out - defined as eating at restaurant, hanging out with friends/family, going out drinking, going to a movie/play/concert, going to a park - 168 of the 299 days over this period, or about 57% of the time. I'm not sure if this is high or low. If you read the this article, it may not seem like to much next to these playboys, but I still think it would fall on the high side, especially among married 35 year olds. That said, we could probably stand to save more money considering how much we go out.....
- ....or maybe not. According to this article, 37% of working Americans are not saving anything for retirement. And among those who are, the median retirement sum totals about $28,000. We are ahead of this - but barely.
- Speaking of going out, last nite we saw the Walking Shadow Theatre Company perform Neil Labute's Fat Pig. It's a darkly hilarious but troubling tale in which an attractive single man falls for an obese woman. He wants to do the right thing - believes he is capable of doing the right thing - but the story proceeds to show the trials and tribulations of daily life that prevent many of us from putting our money where our mouths are and actually doing the right thing and living our beliefs instead of just believing them.
- This article hails the death of the album and the release of the single track as the business model of the future, something that has been prognosticated for some time across any media outlet which covers anything. As with most online articles, the reader comments are the most entertaining and most insightful. A lot of people either think all albums suck and that musicians and the "industry" are trying to sell crap for profits, while others think that those people just have bad taste in music. In the end, some artists (top 40 pop, mainstream dance/hip-hop, such as R. Kelly's latest #1 hit which was sold exclusively digitally) (granted this was in Kiwi New Zealand but still) is probably best served by the track while others can still make a compelling album. (From Hypebot and Google Alerts).
- Speaking of some recent compelling albums, and I know some of these have been out for a while now but fuck I can't stop listening to them: Lily Allen's "Alright, Still"....Storyhill's self-titled release (but 7th album)....Asobi Seksu's "Citrus"....Matt & Kim's "Matt and Kim"....Dinosaur Jr.'s "Beyond"....Modest Mouse's "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"....Elk City's "New Believer"....Softlightes' "Say No! to Being Cool. Say Yes to Being Happy"
26 June 2007
Random Randoms
It's been a while so I thought I'd throw out some random thoughts. I was planning to write about upcoming fatherhood, but I am tired, and more importantly, very lazy, so that will come...eventually:
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Where the hell are the musings on impending fatherhood you promised us?! As 50% of your audience, I'd like to make a request. Give us more access to the fantastical world of richyud! Pull back the curtain, and give us a little peekaloo into that microbrew-soaked brain of yours.
For example, what's with the "event log"? Was Aki's birthday around the time the two of you decided to start a family? The excerise sounds like an effort to quantify the sacrifices fatherhood will require. It's as if "Childless Rich" knows his days are numbered and is getting his affairs in order.
Also, why have you started spelling night "nite". English words don't have genders like those of some of the fruitier languages, but if they did, "nite" would definitely be feminine...and 12.
Finally, we want less talk about the music industry. If we wanted to read about "platforms" and "business models" we'd read....well, I don't know what we'd read. It's never come up. And, it never will.
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