UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Sometimes, the power of marketing is a curse. A plague. A near sin.

Why do I say that?

Can you say the words “Harry Reid?”

There is one perfect person in the world. At least that’s the way Ms. Oprah Winfrey sees it every time she looks in the mirror.

What she may not know is that zillions of us are so overdosed on her that the situation is becoming toxic. Perhaps fatal.

On Wednesday, the US Capitol will be the the venue for the first time in history for a Broadway show. A Super Bowl. And an Oscar extravaganza all rolled into one Busby Berkeley dazzler.

The hardest thing about learning how to fly a plane is learning how to fly with instruments. And what makes that so challenging is that you have to abandon all of your instincts, forgo everything you have been taught to do to that point, and trust the invisible.
There you are flying through fog, through [...]

So I think Counting Crows is one of the best bands of the past two decades. No Led Zep but who is or was? At their best, Counting Crows was genuinely good, original, and at times (Recovering The Satellites, Anna Begins) exceptional.
And then they lost the artistic magic or Adam got tired or who knows [...]