Posts Tagged ‘michael jackson’

My Blog, Transposed

Friday, September 4th, 2009

picture-3As many of you may know, my full-time gig is with a company in Seattle called Melodeo that does things with music on the web and on mobile phones.

nuTsie.com is our website, with a couple of million visits a month.

We recently changed our homepage layout to feature much more editorial content. I’m finding/editing/writing the content.

The biggest upside for me is that I now get to write in the royal “we.”  It’s as close as I’ll ever come to writing “Talk of the Town” bits for The New Yorker.

Much of what I’ve been doing here will now be at nuTsie.com.  I’m hoping I’ll have time for more posts here, but there are only so many hours in the day…

Thank you, Michael Jackson

Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Sweet inspiration

Sweet inspiration

Hard to believe.  My first response was a sense of relief for the man’s restless, troubled soul.

I would not have wanted to play music if not for The Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson.  I still have my vinyl copy of the Got To Be There album.  Hearing him on Casey Kasem’s Top 40 and seeing him on TV made me want to do that.

He was a skinny little kid with an afro and a high voice. I was a skinny little kid with an afro and a high voice. I had no idea of the gaps (in culture, class and, most importantly, talent) that separated us. He was like me.