‘music’ Archive
This entry was posted October 10th, 2007 and has 4 comments.
As pretty much everyone knows by now, Radiohead released their new album, In Rainbows, today. The album isn’t available in stores or on iTunes, only directly from Radiohead. The band basically shocked the music industry when they announced on October 1st that they would be releasing this album themselves, without the backing of a label. A much bigger deal was the fact that there would be no set price for this album. Instead, Radiohead believed that people, when given the choice, would pay a fair price for the album.
This is genius, and actually works, for so many reasons. First, they didn’t release any promotional copies to radio stations, stream new songs on MySpace (they don’t even have an official page), or allow the album to leak in any way. They merely announced 9 days ago that they had a new album coming out and told you where you could get it.
Continue reading In Rainbows by Radiohead
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This entry was posted October 9th, 2007 and has 1 comment.
Last night, I ran my fastest 3-mile run to date. My overall pace was 7:57 per mile, finally breaking that 8-minute mile time. Yesterday was a beautiful, hot, humid October day. After a somewhat trying day at work the run was exactly what I needed.
I decided to run to the song Let Down by Radiohead on repeat. It’s a beautiful song, but not something you’d think of as a running song. For whatever reason, I just wanted the repetition of that song over and over. And each time the song restarted, it was just as good as the first time.
Continue reading Fastest 3 Miles
Posted in Chris Walbert, life, music, running
This entry was posted September 26th, 2007 and has 3 comments.
Let me run an idea by you. This is one of the things that I really enjoy about blogging. Sometimes you just need to get an idea down, and see if it’s worth pursuing.
As anyone who knows me in real life knows, each winter for the past 5 years, whatever house I’ve lived in has hosted a large, semi-formal Christmas Party. Each year seems to get bigger and even more fun. Last year was an absolute blast. Throughout the night we probably had 150 people in our Hampden duplex, each of whom was well-dressed, somewhat well-behaved, and definitely enjoying themselves.
An idea came to me this morning, as we have already begun planning this year’s party.
Continue reading Christmas Party Sponsorship
Posted in Baltimore, Chris Walbert, advertising, business, food, life, marketing, music, technology
This entry was posted July 18th, 2007 and has 3 comments.
How many times are you distracted from what you’re working on in a typical day? What is the longest amount of time you can concentrate without your attention being diverted? What are the things that distract you the most.
Yesterday, I was talking with my buddy Brad about the many distractions that we are provide with in our high-tech world. So I have decided to compile a list of all the things that have distracted me this morning, before noon.
1. Upon first logging on to my computer, Gmail Notifier let me know that I had an important email to read about color options for this season’s kickball tee shirts. Please God don’t let them be red.
Continue reading A World of Distractions
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This entry was posted July 16th, 2007 and has no nomments.
This past Saturday evening I saw The Decemberists play with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Merriwether in Columbia, MD. I was lucky enough to receive 2 free tickets from a very generous work acquaintance. We had pretty fantastic seats, probably about 30 rows back. The great seats almost made me not mind paying $9 a beer, almost.
The show was amazing. The Decemberists are great musicians and their sound was only enhanced with the backing of a full orchestra. They played for about an hour, took a 15-minute intermission, then came back for another 40 minutes or so, before one final encore song. As great as the show was, I still wanted more when they were done. An extra 2-song encore would have been perfect.
Continue reading The Decemberists with The BSO - updated with video
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