Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog
An interesting article in the NYT magazine about the evolution of the rock star - from rebel to MySpace slave: By Clive Thompson
"Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day’s e-mail. Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome. In September 2005, he quit his job as a computer programmer and, with his wife’s guarded blessing, became a full-time singer and songwriter. He set a quixotic goal for himself: for the next year, he would write and record a song each week, posting each one to his blog. “It was a sort of forced-march approach to creativity,†he admitted to me over the sound of the cafe’s cappuccino frothers. He’d always wanted to be a full-time musician, and he figured the only way to prove to himself he could do it was with a drastic challenge. “I learned that it is possible to squeeze a song out of just about anything,†he said. “But it’s not always an easy or pleasant process.†Given the self-imposed time constraints, the “Thing a Week†songs are remarkably good."