Tuesday Minute
People are talking about the new Moby CD. I've been trying to withhold opinion on the album, which I've been listening to for about a week thanks to an advance promo copy, and give it a fair listen. Keep in mind that I'm someone who's been listening to Moby since the late 80s, and have enjoyed his many diversions and stylistic changes. But 18 is shockingly dull.
I've always felt Moby was never meant to be a star, to be on the cover of magazines and selling millions of records. He's chocked full of wit, intellect, and talent, but he shouldn't be creating music for the VH1 masses. If Moby held true to character, he would have veered completely away from Play and done something different, as he did (for better or worse) with Animal Rights, and for that matter Play. But instead he retreads the same schtict that made him famous, and the results are watered down and lifeless. I hate to write that, but it's true.
And while we're talking about music, Andrew W.K. is playing the Cotton Club in Atlanta tonight. Break out the cocaine and kegs.
Choice quote from Dave:
Microsoft clearly doesn't have any vision for the Web other than owning and controlling and freezing it. As Web developers, it was our air supply that Microsoft cut off. The correct solution is to decouple the Web from Microsoft in a permanent and non-revokable way. It should be done in a way that causes the least possible disruption of service for users, while creating the maximum possibility for competition. For Microsoft to argue fairness is ridiculous. They are not qualified to argue about fairness.
One of my favorite weblogs, the "bootylicious" dooce.com has waved goodbye and boarded a plane to destinations unknown. Her site goes down as the first, and only weblog I know of, that caused an author to get fired from a job. But her site was way more than that - great photography, wonderful writing, and an MP3 collection that couldn't be beat. We'll miss you.
Comments
I loved to read the DOOCE also. What a bummer!
Posted by: Paul Mayne at April 23, 2002 10:51 AM
Dooce.com was one of my most favorite sites to check out, read, laugh, and cry over. Just when she got a puppy and some even awesomer (hehe) fotos, it goes offline. Too bad really. Her site was always good. I'll really miss you, Dooce.
-Mathew Hoy
Posted by: Mathew at April 23, 2002 1:09 PM
It seems the blog community has a death every so often. It is sad about dooce.com because she is a wonderful writer/artist. I get the feeling though that she was tired of the popularity of her blog. Weblogging has become a popularity contest defeating the whole purpose of a personal site.
Posted by: Ricardo at April 23, 2002 4:46 PM
i loved reading dooce. heather was not the first person to get fired over her weblog. mark pilgrim got the same treatement, cfr http://diveintomark.org/archives/2001/10/09.html
Posted by: metabe at April 24, 2002 5:52 AM
I'll miss dooce also. Every morning I would read dooce first, What Do I Know second. (Sorry, Todd.) Heather is a great writer and an inspiring artist and photographer. Here's to hoping dooce is back one day...
Posted by: Erich at April 25, 2002 7:47 AM
My weblog got me fired about 2 years ago.
Posted by: Joshua at April 25, 2002 12:15 PM
Dooce was my favourite weblog site. It was the only one that produced loud guffaws in me. Like Heather indicates, I don't think we've seen that last of her, and that is good.
Posted by: Antony at April 25, 2002 4:24 PM
Actually, Mark (diveintomark.org) got fired for his weblog too...
Posted by: Dave Lehman at April 29, 2002 9:17 AM
All I've heard from 18 is the single, and I believe a remix at that (someone emailed me the track and said ' here - listen to this' - and it's different from the radio-single), but this track feels different to me. Not different to anyone else, as it seems to be treading the electronica-lite of Daft Punk, but set more in the mid-eighties than late-seventies - there's this curious little 'Ms. PacMan'-sounding loop running through the song. It's also strangely upbeat and peppy.
But I'll grant you that the feel of it is kindof flat, and far too similar to that of play - but maybe, what with there seeming to be a meme of emotional/cultural 'flatness', maybe he's simply tuned into that. Of course, what made Moby so great was always how he tuned into something the rest of the world wasn't doing.
Posted by: Stv. at May 2, 2002 2:12 PM
