> They’d seen tapes of MTV videos starring some guy that had hair, and heard other kids’ parents refer to me as a ‘former rock star’, but for all their short lives I was just a business guy who went to work every day with a briefcase/but I’m only world class at one thing and that’s music
> Even when I’m in business mode, sitting in some Silicon Valley board room with a bunch of VPs in suits, there’s inevitably one guy who gets this peculiar look on his face and proceeds to tell me about Lavinia whom he was bonking at MIT when ‘Science’ was on the stereo.
> And it was gorgeous! The first time I tried it on, late in the evening, complete with antique earphones and motorcycle goggles, I was delighted. I went to knock on my 13-yr-old Talia’s bedroom door, and when she opened the door on the darkened corridor I near scared the living daylights out of
> Doug Wyatt and Gerhard Lengeling were there from Apple. Gerhard was the founder of eMagic, which made the Logic music sequencer for the Atari, and later PC and Mac. Apple acquired them a few years back and Gerhard and his family moved to the US.
MI3 は OK だね.. > What’s more offensive, to me, is the crooked politicians and warmongers that run this country, and the ignorant US populace that voted for them, and who for recreation read and watch the sensationalist media that vilifies celebrities like Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson.
> Ryuichi contacted me a couple weeks ago about an issue that is troubling to him. In Northern Japan there is a nuclear reactor about to open outside the small town of Rokkasho. It has been measured to have potential levels of radioactivity way in excess of anything remotely safe or acceptable.
確かに ^^ > Well, I’ve been an action figure and a dancing hamster in a labcoat, and now it appears I’m the inspiration behind a cuddly vampire named Professor Corpussal. His creator, Holly Golightly and her husband Jim came to my show in Sellersville, and gave me a copy of her comic book
> Then there are those who were always above pigeonhling. Kraftwerk were a bunch of staid-looking middle aged Germans when they started out! So who cares how they’ve aged. What matters is that their music is and always was fantastic, and it transcends decades and trends.
> However, it’s where the founders of WebTV met, which led me to Steve Hales, creator of the Beatnik Audio Engine; also where I met Andrew Rostaing, now chief engineer at Beatnik; and indirectly resulted in Danger Inc, who make my favourite PDA/phone
> I was strongly influenced by what I suppose was their ‘middle period’,... . They were as unique to the seventies as were Talking Heads to the eighties–each stood out as way more intelligent, lyrically challenging and musically intriguing than 99% of their contemporaries.
あはは > I have absolutely no recollection of this Japanese interview that I must have shot when I went to Tokyo promoting my second album. I look completely spaced out having just got off a plane from the UK, and I wonder how much of the interview was ‘lost in translation’?:
ワオ! すげー > Tony Fadell was the catalyst–he worked with me at Beatnik, and has previously had a modicum of success with handheld products at Philips and elsewhere, but when he went to Apple he really nailed it. Timing is everything! I look forward to seeing Tony, Steven and others tonight
うわー2重に凄い話だ... > Stevie thought for a moment, then said ‘uh-uh. Marvin tried that one time man. He sang it that way at an NBA all-star game, and you know what? he never got on TV again until the day he died.
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