Two things that are awesome:
1. Old Grey Whistle Test - great live music show on BBC from 72-87
2. Roxy Music - featuring Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry being weird and great. This band could hit today and be 3x bigger.
archiving the day
My name is Phillip. I'm a 26 year old account planner,or brand planner, or strategist or whatever you want to call it at an advertising agency called mcgarrybowen in New York. I've worked for retail giants, pro-sports teams, an energy company, and in consumer electronics. My job entails explaining social concepts and trying to generally be "up" on stuff like trends, people's habits, media, the kind of stuff that may interest my clients (especially when they have no idea how it would interest them). I really enjoy my job (probably what I'm least bad at) however I do have a secret desire to be a music critic for one of those really trendy and pretentious music websites (see: Pitchforkmedia or Cokemachineglow). I'd wear ill fitting pants and ironic t-shirts, drink pabst and hate any band that got remotely famous. But I digress.
This blog helps me focus on interesting stuff that I find by saving it all in one place.
"the way to be interesting is to be interested" -R. Davies, Important ad guy
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My Email: phillip.t.lee@gmail.com
Podcasts that I can't do without in no particular order
I realized today when my NPR app wasn’t opening on my phone that I don’t own a radio. Which got me to thinking about how much podcasts have become a growing part of my media consumption (at least 15%). Here is a list of the favorites.
One of the best parts of working in an agency is when you get to hear stories about the old days from the people who lived them. I’ve been lucky enough to have worked with some great storytellers. I think I’m really going to like this movie.
“Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread”
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10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan is underrated. He was a great voice for astronomy and science and today would’ve been his 75th birthday. Neatorama has a post detailing facts about him with some great samples of his writing. Here is an example of one:
1. Carl Sagan’s First Book About Stars
When Carl was five years old, he wondered about the stars: what were they? Unsatisfied with the answers he got from his friends and from adults he knew, Carl went to the library and asked for a book about stars. The librarian handed him … a book on celebrities! In Keay Davidson’s Carl Sagan: A Life, Carl explained how his fascination with the cosmos began:
I gave it back to her and said, “This wasn’t the kind of stars I had in mind.” She thought this was hilarious, which humiliated me further. She then went and got the right kind of book. I took it—a simple kid’s book. I sat down on a little chair—a pint-sized chair—and turned the pages until I came to the answer.
And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light…. And while I didn’t know the [inverse] square law of light propagation or anything like that, still, it was clear to me that you would have to move that Sun enormously far away, further away than Brooklyn [for the stars to appears as dots of light]….
The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. [It was] kind of a religious experience. [There] was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.an
“ Ideas weren’t precious. They were everywhere, which suggested that maybe the extraordinary process that we thought was necessary for invention—genius, obsession, serendipity, epiphany—wasn’t necessary at all.
“ Invention has its own algorithm: genius, obsession, serendipity, and epiphany in some unknowable combination. How can you put that in a bottle
