Morrissey Business Lessons?

Nothing more to be said here, Morrissey's influence has spilled over. And I quote from an article:

Morrissey's song lyrics are to be used to teach students about business.

Three researchers have pored over the work of the former Smiths frontman over the past 20 years to apply them to how relationships work in the business world.

Now their 8,000-word study, Business Relationships the Morrissey Way, is to be used to teach students about the hard-headed world of commerce.

Bring your friends with 10 hands

It would take forever to score:

Takeaway Show Friday - The Kooks "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley Cover)

#12.1 The Kooks-Crazy (G Barkley cover)
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Takeaway Show Friday - Tapes'N'Tapes "Insistor"

#28.2-TAPES'N' TAPES - Insistor
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Takeaway Show Friday - Cali "One (U2 Cover)"

#31.4 - CALI - One (U2 cover)
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Stuff White People Like

This guy knows white people well and this is way too accurate: Stuff White People Like

Some of my favorites that hit the nail on head for me or my friends:
Dinner Parties
Shorts
Expensive Sandwiches
Sushi
Indie Music
Apple Products
Arrested Development

My two absolute favorites:
Marathons
Microbreweries

Where done been?

You might have noticed how I've been sporadically posting over the past two months in contrast to posting some 2 or 3 times a daily regularly before that. I've been working longer hours, been locked up in the lab and also transitioning to a new lab on a government site. Given that these labs are locked down I'm not able to reach many sites like youtube or myspace and my time has been limited, thus posting when I can. That was the past and I'm sorry for the lack of posts and especially the lack of new music recommendations. When I recommend a band I typically run them through the ringer and I haven't had the time to do that in the past months. Now I'm in a lab that has open access and I won't be bothered as much with people demanding something out of me two seconds from now. So, I can listen to music when I want and thus bring back the recommending and others. This is my mission going forward.

On another note, as Gregarious aptly named this site Distraction Jackson, I think we need more than just music and a sampling of distractions. I'd like to keep the music as the main element of the site but bring in more distractions. So, you'll be seeing more of that.

Here's to distractions when we need them most.

How to Write a Song and Other Mysteries

Andrew Bird, one of our favorite singer/songwriter/musician, wrote an interesting article about song writing and the intricacies of the art. Good article worth checking out.