Something Burning

Month: July 2009

  • United Airlines Broke His Guitar

    Ok I wasn’t going to post anything about this because EVERYONE ELSE has. But fuck it, it’s just too good. And the subject’s too relevant to what I kinda think I am supposed to be doing. United Airlines broke Dave Carroll’s guitar, so he wrote a song about it: I’ve heard all your excuses and…

  • My New Favorite Follow is @JeffreyHayzlett

    Ok so I can’t go into the details, it’s all NDA and shit. Can’t even show you the video he showed us. But I can at least say Kodak’s CMO Jeff Hayzlett is an animal like no other. And it’s not just the belt buckle, the boots and the balls. Handsome, ain’t he? The guy’s…

  • Hillary Clinton Leaks mtvU Winners Via Twitter

    Awesome day for mtvU, as Secretary of State Clinton leaked the winners of this year’s Fulbright mtvU Fellowships via twitter.  Each year, mtvU asks some major artists (Wyclef Jean, Serj Tankian from System of a Down, Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to name a few) to help…

  • Matt Damon, Chris Moore & The History Channel (and Aniboom)

    Nancy Dubuc at The History Channel is betting big on THE PEOPLE SPEAK, an interpretation of Howard Zinn’s legendary A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The doc has the potential to be History Channel’s own PLANET EARTH type franchise. I’ve seen some, it’s pretty powerful to watch — and could the timing be any…

  • “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”

    Shit getting nuts at work? Knowwhatyoumean. Six months ago, one of my bosses handed me the book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.” Ouch. At least he couched it by telling me his boss had given the same book to him, recently, and he loved it. Anyway, I’ve been reading it, though I…

  • Times Square Needs Some Help

    Great Impressions: How Come We’re Not Superserving the Times Square Beach? My old friend Susan Dominus is dead-on in her New York Times piece on Times Square. As public/private partnerships abound, you’d think someone would have figured out a more impressive reality than recessionistic beach chairs from Pintchik (no offense, I love Pintchik). How come…

  • Lady Gaga Endorsing NeuroDrinks, sorta

    Dear Neuro Drinks, Congratulations on getting Lady Gaga to poison her boyfriend with your “sleep enhancement drink” in the “Papparazzi” video (below).  Not sure what arrangement you made with Gaga, Jonas Akerlund and Interscope to get that done, but I’m assuming the cash helped pay for the video, and Jonas did a solid job with the integration.  This morning I awoke to nice…