tag:jakenewton.com,2005:/blogs/sharkbrain--2?p=2SHARKBRAIN2018-09-10T03:03:49-07:00Jake Newtonfalsetag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238932013-02-08T19:08:52-08:002023-12-10T10:09:07-08:00HELP MY FRIENDS JESSE THOMAS AND THE YOUNG ROMANS<p>Here’s their post, let’s get this stuff back to them! </p>
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Last night in San Diego, the Young Romans and Jesse Thomas had all of their gear stolen from Jesse’s car. If you are in the San Diego area please help us check local pawn shops, Craigslist, and anywhere else one may sell instruments. We NEED you. This gear is over $10,000 and very sentimental to us. Share this on your walls, tell your friends, ANYTHING. Here is a list of gear: Nord Stage 2, Vox AC4, Custom 52 Blonde Telecaster with a Gretch TV Jones pick up and ebony neck, Takamine EAN 10C, Boss Tuner, Boss Delay Petal, Line 6 Delay Petal, Holy Grail Reverb Petal, Ibanez Tube Screamer Petal, Box Of Rock Petal</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238942012-12-12T10:41:02-08:002023-12-10T09:19:51-08:00@javierdunn is also playing @hotelcafe 12/15, did you know he...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/36ac7683ff125160df8a691ea91c7ec4/tumblr_mexl8e2x5t1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>@javierdunn is also playing @hotelcafe 12/15, did you know he was a warlock? Of songs?</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238952012-12-11T19:40:55-08:002023-12-10T08:33:39-08:00Hey! It’s @mynameisyouband and @heatherholty recording...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/4e6a90c39cbfc88b8e6ec2d0fc0a21d7/tumblr_mewfk8Mi8l1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Hey! It’s @mynameisyouband and @heatherholty recording videos!</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238962012-12-09T14:01:35-08:002023-12-10T08:51:22-08:00@erikkertes looking reverent<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/14412a4382fe930bc0b611e59379936f/tumblr_mesainwoZq1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>@erikkertes looking reverent</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238972012-12-08T13:53:20-08:002022-05-30T01:37:30-07:00David Bazan was the quintessential entertainer for a generation...<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/670722037d9dff84d8e3319a1377cf56/tumblr_meqfgw2L9g1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>David Bazan was the quintessential entertainer for a generation of bearded misanthropes, truly epic! Thanks to @adamchristgau & @justinglasco</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238982012-12-03T14:27:21-08:002022-12-19T01:52:03-08:00Today I’m working for Nickelodeon making monkey voices. I...<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meh7pmhehn1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Today I’m working for Nickelodeon making monkey voices. I have a weird life. #blessed (at Skylark Sound Studios)</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15238992012-12-03T08:35:07-08:002023-12-10T09:15:00-08:00Somewhere someone just bought one of these for their dad for...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_megrej3Nr91qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Somewhere someone just bought one of these for their dad for Christmas, it’s gonna be a hit.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239002012-12-02T14:55:08-08:002023-12-10T09:08:25-08:00Nonstop playing of “Alabama Christmas” beginning...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mefebxIaAV1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Nonstop playing of “Alabama Christmas” beginning today. Beginning with “thistle hair the Christmas bear” and ending with b side rarity “Jesus weren’t born fer nuttin”</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239012012-12-01T11:37:08-08:002022-05-25T04:10:31-07:00At a kids bounce house party watching my wife’s ovaries...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_medahwUMxs1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>At a kids bounce house party watching my wife’s ovaries dry up in protest cc @heatherholty</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239022012-11-29T11:40:33-08:002023-12-10T09:04:01-08:00Yeah residuals! I’m gonna go buy some soap! Art and...<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9lblKKoE1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Yeah residuals! I’m gonna go buy some soap! Art and commerce CAN mix</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239032012-11-25T15:35:55-08:002023-12-10T11:46:01-08:00Leafers for life<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me2hjwknw31qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Leafers for life</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239042012-11-24T12:40:55-08:002023-12-10T09:15:00-08:00Found this gem in a box of baseball cards.<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me0es7JtxV1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Found this gem in a box of baseball cards.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239052012-11-21T12:33:34-08:002023-11-28T02:34:06-08:00Holiday Splendor<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>So. We find ourselves in the thick of the Holiday season, fast approaching, ever returning. The heavy side of the year’s cycle spinning round with a gyroscopic zig-zag of a Hula hoop with sand in one side. The Holidays. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>They used to mean something different to all of us. The level of distraction has increased the speed of life. I find myself caught in a turning pool below the great waterfall of the age of information. I’m given enough air to keep my body from death, but I can feel myself dying. A leaf turning green to gold, yet not as graceful. More like necrotic flesh making it’s slow and steady march up my leg, with the patience of Job, Ache and heartbreak. But this is not what the Holidays are for. They are for family, for finding that shred of wonder in yourself as you desperately conjure up a brave face for the young who’s own sense of wonder is vibrant and hasn’t been beaten down by the indignities of growing up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Such indignities as the blind hunger for sex, parking tickets on your windshield like leeches on a farm animal, hell, even a job interview takes a bit of the wonder out of life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>As I’ve aged I’ve tried to recall the sense of wonder and possibility that I had as a child. I’ve tried not to reduce it to base facts. I’ve tried not to think of myself simply as a poor kid with no money excited for toys I would never have been able to buy myself (stupid child labor laws!), I’ve tried to look further. I’ve tried to conjure up what made that sense of wonder so prescient in my mind as a child during the holidays. And what I’ve come up with is akin the same feelings I would get while exploring in the woods, or walking around carnivals, it’s the sense of POSSIBILITY. The open ended back half of a novel with its’ pages still blank. Open land on all sides, the joy and the terror of looking upon the expanse in every direction that are the potential paths of your life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I used to love the poem, “<em>The Road Not Taken”, </em>by Robert Frost. In the last stanza he writes, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> <em> I shall be telling this with a sigh, </em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span> Somewhere ages and ages hence, </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span> Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span> I took the one less traveled by, </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><em> And that has made all the difference.</em> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>When I first read this in my late teens I thought it was Frost being counter cultural, going against the grain, and as a card carrying loner in my own mind I thought this to be worthy of a credo. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Then in college a friend in the English program told me the poem wasn’t about taking the road less traveled, it was just about choosing a road. I was livid, here was the ornate mission statement of my own personal brand of loner being picked apart. Now what am I going to recite to myself while I smoked cigarettes on the roof of my crappy apartment in Azusa? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>It was only later, much later, that I began to appreciate the true sentiment of the poem, which is to simply make a choice, to leave the crossroads behind you. This is the natural part of humanity, the gradual thinning down of choices until they form a narrative, of what you were while you were on this earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>But as a child, and especially during the holidays, there is nothing but possibility. The world is open, the sky is the limit. Try to shake off those wandering blues. Have your cake and eat it too. Let the wonder of the season numb those nagging fears of your inadequacy. That’s what I’m trying out this year. </span></p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239062012-11-20T23:25:59-08:002022-07-26T03:56:20-07:00Ah man jake, not even CLOSE.<img src="//24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdttzbe5gy1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Ah man jake, not even CLOSE.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239072012-11-20T14:34:39-08:002022-03-15T14:32:33-07:00"All natural eh? We’ll see about that."<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdt5drLhER1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>"All natural eh? We’ll see about that."</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239082012-11-15T21:53:54-08:002017-01-13T11:35:29-08:00I made this into a meal of food tonight.<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdkgdu0dXE1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I made this into a meal of food tonight.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239092012-11-02T13:58:16-07:002022-03-11T03:33:27-08:00The Met Cinema <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Met Cinema</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>My hometown movie theater has closed its’ doors. Maybe it’s a sign of the economic woes America has been wading through over the past few years, maybe it’s a herald of what is to come in the 21</span><sup>st</sup><span> century entertainment landscape. Maybe it’s a bit of both. I am not a soothsayer or economist. But I do know that televisions are getting bigger and blu-rays are getting sharper, and I don’t have as much money to spend on popcorn as I used to. Regardless of whatever the cause, I’m saddened by the loss of The Met Cinema in Oakhurst, California.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>As a Child living in an isolated town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, movies were a keyhole to the rest of the bustling, industrialized, multicultural world. Movies let me see the Manhattan skyline, Upper West Siders hailing cabs at rush hour, the dreary melancholy of England, a galaxy far far away, etc. In the days before world-wide connectivity and information, the movies I saw at the Met Cinema as a child were bits and pieces of the wide wild world parsed out in celluloid given to my brain as a medicine against narrow-mindedness. It fueled my imagination and began a lifelong obsession with Film.<img src="//www.metcinema.com/photo2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_right border_" height="131" width="214" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>When I was in the second grade my parents snuck me out of school to see the first showing of the live action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie. I remember thinking that I had the coolest parents, they knew my insatiable need could not be quenched by waiting 2 hours for school to let out. We got popcorn, and my dad took a carton of milk duds and generously shook them into the bucket of popcorn, “to surprise you every other bite,” he’d say. It was a quirk I used to think bizarre but in retrospect find endearing and actually quite delicious.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>In the back corner of the lobby there were quarter gulping arcade games and a claw machine that promised treasure and delivered frustration. Once when we were left unattended, my little sister found a way to shimmy into the Claw machine through the drop shoot and grab the stuffed animals inside. We were bandits! Stealing from the claw and giving to the poor! Did not get away with it though, Mom found us and made us give everything back. </span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>As a teen my relationship with the Met changed dramatically. No Longer was it merely a place to see movies and be transported to new and interesting worlds, It was also a place where you could take your girlfriend to explore the inside of each other’s mouths. I bought many tickets to movies I never actually saw a single frame of.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>After graduating from high school and before my illustrious and short-lived college career I worked concessions at the Met. It remains to this day one of my favorite jobs. </span><span> </span><span>Here’s a breakdown of how a workday would go,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><span>I arrive, restock candy, check soda syrups, and make popcorn. Impending hordes file in for the first show, I am frazzled for 10 minutes as the crowds of theater goers crash upon the concession counter like hungry waves upon my salt and sugar encrusted beach. Then, as quickly as they came, they are gone, nestled in their respective seats like docile babes. It is at this time that I am given 30-40 minutes to sit and read, I burned through Jack Kerouac’s </span><em>On the Road </em><span>during the first month of working there, which began my early twenties obsession with beat literature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>Then, about fifteen minutes before the movie let out, we braced ourselves, triple checked supplies, four man teams waited by the doors as the final scene played. The once docile sugared movie goers would stampede out into the world, into our once peaceful lobby, where a short while before I was reading about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. Madness! Children running for their parents, Parents running for the door, my co-workers and I would brave the dark to see what presents the movie going public had left us. The worst shows were the kid’s movies. As a child it’s hard enough to eat when you can see what your doing, add the distraction of a pitch black theater and your favorite cartoon characters playing on the wall in front of you and it’s nearly impossible to get any food in your mouth. </span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>Once, during a showing of the first Pokémon movie a frozen bon bon made it’s way from the back of the theater down the sloping rows of chairs the front, leaving a snail trail of melted chocolate goodness. This, to a teenage minimum wage earner, is enough to make you want to kill yourself. In retrospect I’ve cleaned up tougher messes. One of my roommates in College used to get drunk and piss in the closet thinking it was the bathroom. That was worse, but I digress…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span>The Met holds a special place in my heart. I left my tiny town of Oakhurst for Los Angeles to work in movies. The Met was the only place I could go to escape the feeling of obscurity that fills someone like me up like a hundred-year flood. It gave me a rush of excitement every time the lights dimmed. I still get that way at the movies, Just not as strongly as I used to, when I was huddled in the back, with my feet on the seat in front of me, transfixed by a window to the world that would call me from my rural upbringing to Hollywood. God bless You Met Cinema, you will be sorely missed. </span></p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239102012-10-27T21:41:47-07:002022-05-30T01:52:52-07:00I went with a classic this year #halloween<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcl6do1z021qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I went with a classic this year #halloween</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/15239112012-10-19T13:37:23-07:002022-05-24T04:16:04-07:00@justinglasco mission control center. A man in his element.<img src="//31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5qmcnuSO1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>@justinglasco mission control center. A man in his element.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/2363562012-10-19T08:37:23-07:002022-01-04T03:34:02-08:00@justinglasco mission control center. A man in his element.<img src="//24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5qmcnuSO1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>@justinglasco mission control center. A man in his element.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/2363572012-08-13T08:32:56-07:002023-12-10T11:43:23-08:00Sometimes my brain likes to have a bit of fun. <img src="//24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8pnqwqpBu1qzznabo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Sometimes my brain likes to have a bit of fun. </p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629792012-05-01T06:48:00-07:002022-04-22T13:34:54-07:00My Musical Friends<ul>
<li>Garrison Starr Record is OUT!</li>
<li>Justin Hulsey Starts his PledgeMusic Campaign</li>
<li>Get Free Music From Allie Moss on Noisetrade</li>
<li>Jake Newton show 5/17/12 at Hotel Cafe</li>
</ul><p>Hey Friends! </p>
<p> Today is a phenomenal day to be a fan of good music. Why you ask? because there’s literally a cavalcade of great work being put out today. </p>
<p><img src="//garrisonstarr.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Garrison_Amateur.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="Garrison Starr Amateur" height="150" width="150" /><strong>GARRISON STARR RECORD RELEASED-</strong>Over the past couple of years I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know an artist by the name of Garrison Starr. She’s an incredible writer, inventive guitar player and a laugh a minute riot to be around. During the recording of her most recent record she invited me (amongst a slew of musicians) to sing on her record, out today, entitled “Amateur”, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/amateur/id517725204" title="get it here on iTunes" target="_blank">get it here on iTunes</a>. and be sure to check out some behind the scenes from the making of the record <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmVL9az3CM" title="behind the scenes of Garrison Starr's Record" target="_blank">Here on Youtube</a>. Currently she’s on tour so you should check to see if she’s playing near your city by going to <a href="http://www.GarrisonStarr.com">www.GarrisonStarr.com</a>. Tell her I sent you and she’ll give you a virtual High Five. </p>
<p><img src="//userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/292614.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="Justin Hulsey " height="100" width="150" /><strong>JUSTIN HULSEY PLEDGE CAMPAIGN-</strong>For those of you who’ve followed me for a while you know that I did a pledge music campaign over the last year to fund my latest record <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kill-the-past/id463788531" title="Kill the Past on iTunes" target="_blank">“Kill the Past”</a>. It was a wonderful experience, opening up my eyes to the level of Support I have across the world for my music. I have a warm place in my heart for the people over at Pledge Music and am so excited my friend Justin Hulsey has launched his project this week. I met Justin while he was out in Los Angeles recording his last record, you need to know his music. He’s an incredible talent with an ear for the wounded bird and a heart for the pulse of our disparate 21st century culture. Do yourself a huge favor by going over to his Pledge music page and checking out his project, he’s got a heap of great incentives to tease you with. Getting involved with his music will make you a better person. Simply said. <a href="http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/justinhulsey" title="Justin Hulsey's PledgeMusic Page" target="_blank">check out his Pledge Music Page Here</a> </p>
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<p><strong><img src="//www.thestarscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/allie_moss.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" height="90" width="150" />ALLIE MOSS ON NOISETRADE-</strong>If you like great music and you are broke (there are many of us, it’s going to be OK) then by all means you need to go to Noisetrade.com and pick up my friend Allie Moss’s record “late Bloomer” which will be on repeat for weeks. Best of all it costs you zero much dollars. How on earth can you pass that up? <a href="http://noisetrade.com/alliemoss" title="Allie Moss on Noisetrade" target="_blank">Get the record here for FREE</a></p>
<p><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/53519/bb5fbc3de86259cce4aa764502bcd4442d508032/medium/instagramshowflyerNextdayFlyer.jpg?1378217734" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="Jake Newton at Hotel Cafe" height="222" width="150" />NEXT SHOW AT THE HOTEL CAFE 5/17/12-</strong>For those of you in the southern Californian zone, I will be playing again at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood after the ever talented Peter Bradley Adams on May 17th at 10PM. <strong>Tickets are available online</strong> by going to <a href="http://www.hotelcafe.com">www.hotelcafe.com</a> or by <a href="https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=1561" title="Jake Newton Tickets" target="_blank">clicking this link here.</a> I’ve taken a bit of a break from live shows to write and will be showcasing quite a few new songs for you to judge, pick apart, obsess over, and beg me to release recordings of. Please afford me the great pleasure of your company and I will do my utmost to rock your socks off in a pleasant “white boy problems” kind of way. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/340618972669097/" title="Jake Newton at Hotel Cafe FB EVENT" target="_blank">Join the FB event Here</a></p>
<p><strong><br></strong></p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629802011-10-10T15:05:22-07:002023-12-10T08:46:05-08:00So my friend @justinglasco misheard the lyrics to Feist’s...<img src="//24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsvskybYTf1qzznabo1_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>So my friend @justinglasco misheard the lyrics to Feist’s new song “Graveyards”. Lyrics are “bring them all back to life. But he heard different.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629812011-07-13T15:16:34-07:002021-07-03T04:00:49-07:00I thought your house was on fire. But it turns out you were only...<img src="//25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loazrmInho1qzznabo1_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I thought your house was on fire. But it turns out you were only renting. So someone else’s house burnt down with all your stuff in it.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629822011-07-11T19:56:28-07:002022-04-11T07:21:10-07:00Famous misquotes<p>“I’ve got 99 problems but indigestion ain’t one”</p>
<p>-mahatma Ghandi-</p>
<p>“What’s the deal with airline food?”</p>
<p>-Benjamin Franklin-</p>
<p>“Does this Hole in my head make my hat look big?”</p>
<p>-Abraham Lincoln-</p>
<p>“Yeah, but I was thinking more of an indie thing…”</p>
<p>-Steven Speilberg-</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629832011-06-18T07:14:00-07:002022-04-13T23:49:00-07:00New Record Rating System<p>So a few months back I was talking with a few friends in front of a Music club in Los Angeles, we were discussing dwindling record sales and the days when records were constantly going Gold, Platinum, Multi-Platinum etc. Those were very different times. </p>
<p>Not that today is worse, it’s just different. The landscape has shifted so much that it’s becoming unrecognizable to the old model. I’m not gonna sit and grouse about how we should return to hunting for your new favorite album somewhere in the belly of a Tower Records on the corner of Main Street and Delusional Way. In Fact, I’m going to propose that the standards by which records are held to in regards to appreciation for Album sales needs to expand. The old sales charts were based on a world were record deals were a plenty, and if you wanted to own a “pirated” copy of something you had to settle for the crappy low fidelity of second-hand cassette city. I think people are listening to just as much music, but the ease at which people can pirate music, coupled with the diversity of the market (everyone can make a record with a laptop) dissipates what used to be an overwhelming choke hold “pop” music had on the general masses.</p>
<p>All this to say that we need a system that congratulates this 21st century phenomenon of “middle class musician”. Ready? Here we go…..</p>
<p><span><span>Currently the Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) has standards as follows</span></span></p>
<p><img src="//cuerecording.com/GoldRecords.jpg" class="size_orig justify_middle border_" alt="Gold Records on some dude's wall" height="100" width="200" /></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<ul>
<li>Silver: 100,000 copies- your video is on MTV</li>
<li>Gold: 500,000 copies- You’ve won a grammy </li>
<li>Platinum: 1,000,000 copies- you’ve won a grammy and you have back up dancers, start crossing over into Film Roles</li>
<li>Multi-Platinum: 2,000,000 copies-your backup dancers have backup dancers, Start talking in interviews about your “legacy”.</li>
<li>Diamond: 10,000,000 copies- your name rhymes with SMichael SMackson</li>
</ul><p>Let’s not Change these!!!! It’s tradition! let’s merely add to them with my new adjusted system:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bronze: 75,000 copies- Start referring to yourself in the third person</li>
<li>Pewter: 50,000 copies- you begin to make lavish purchases </li>
<li>Aluminum: 25,000 copies-The People at Pitchfork.com love you, but they’ll hate you if you go Bronze</li>
<li>Wood: 10,000 copies- your parents friends don’t believe you make money as a musician and currently hold the theory that you’re a drug dealer</li>
<li>Cotton: 5,000-you still freelance as a graphic designer</li>
<li>Paper: 1,000-people at your thankless job ask how your band is doing (you can’t wait to quit)</li>
<li>Wax: 500- dude, just making a record is hard enough. Good for you. </li>
<li>Lint- 50- you need to get out more</li>
</ul><p>So there it is. Finally a system worthy of todays recording industry. This is multi-paper recording artist Jake newton signing off, </p>
<p>J</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629842011-06-07T11:44:18-07:002022-12-22T14:34:02-08:00Check out the cover of Smashing Pumpkins we made for the pledge...<iframe width="400" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/urde-Ut0lZw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br><p>Check out the cover of Smashing Pumpkins we made for the pledge music campaign</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629852011-05-23T14:46:13-07:002023-12-10T09:29:43-08:00Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, cause it’s probably some guy in a turtleneck.<p>Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, cause it’s probably some guy in a turtleneck.</p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629862011-05-18T11:00:06-07:002023-12-10T10:06:30-08:00What is your take on quantum physics combined with the spiritual theories of "law of attraction" ?<br />
-Suzie Rose<p>Having the last name Newton I believe qualifies me to answer this question. Having said that, my take on the blending of the two concepts is that, “Arbys sandwiches will make you want to quantum leap out of your body and create a powerful attraction to the nearest restroom”. </p>Jake Newtontag:jakenewton.com,2005:Post/1629872011-05-18T05:28:56-07:002023-12-10T11:27:10-08:00How do you manage to balance your time with your music and promotion against your family life?<p>I do a very poor job of balancing it and many people get mad at me;)</p>Jake Newton