Kill Em All was Metallica’s first studio album in 1983. At this point, the lineup was Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, and Hammet. The last famously replaced Mustaine, who was too much of an asshole for the band who had to be talked down to titling their debut KEM. Their original title would have been Metal Up Your Ass with complementary album art showing a hand stabbing with a dagger out of a toilet...
Sunday November 24, 2013
Stuff. News: A media review – Part 2 I’m continuing yesterday’s campaign to review the online news sources I’ve bookmarked, with an emphasis on their target topics, and their value for reading. Today I’ve written about: The Global Mail The Nation Nieman Reports PR Watch Quartz Nb. There are a couple more links I’ve frequented which I’d like to review (i.e...
Saturday November 23, 2013
Let’s start by recording what is/was done today (by cross-referencing the “To-do” items listed in the “meta” notebook via Evernote. Continuing read Hamilton’s Judas Unchained. Up-to-date on 750word transmutation to Evernote. Started a review of my sources for news. Continued my Notes on Wolff. Started mind-mapping Scaruffi ch.4 and noting ch.5. News: A media...
Brief musing on content without medium
Has content become liberated from medium? The Walking Dead is an example that can be imbibed as either/all of comic (read), tv show (watch), or game (play). However, as an example it begs the question. After all, to what extent did the franchise retain its essence across the media? I choose that nasty scholastic term as an obvious provocation. It is obvious that some cases fail to promote the...
Friday August 16, 2013
Editorial notes: This is the first of 51 Evernote entries titled according to the date on which they were written, making this a personal, chronological journal of observations, lessons learned and conclusions, together with an element of diary writing. Synopsis: Today I discover a foreign news service, muse about its benefits, get side-tracked onto developing an open mind. And then finally added...
The Third Way II
Editorial notes: Shai continuously explores different channels through which he might best document his life’s research work. Having traversed from hand-written notebooks to on-line writers forums and blogs, he begins using his Google Drive as a repository for documents he wishes to store on the web. It seems highly likely that some of his work, originally written and stored in Google Drive is...