To me, one thing really stands out in the AP piece reporting the death of Bo Diddley.
“I don’t like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it,” he said. “I don’t have any idols I copied after.”
“They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that [...]

Last month I wrote a post called Genrefication.
Genrefication is a word I made up.
Here is my definition:
Genrefication -The process of categorizing all creative content.
Here is a little of what I said in the previous post.
Everything has to fit in to a genre-every song, every movie, every book, every recipe, every painting, political idea or [...]

I woke up, it was like 4:30 or something, and a lot of times I wake up and I’ve got some thought running through my mind and I just have to chase that thought down. I can’t move on to worrying about all the crap I spend most of my waking hours worrying about, until [...]