The following is my comment on this article.
The Huffington Posts’s post-comment-to-Tumblr function is pretty dumb — no link back to the original article.
Ben Folds and Haines, in addition to being among my favorite artists, are incredibly savvy entrepreneurs in the constantly shifting digital media economy. As a young recording artist and performer, I always learn from them when they’re quoted in articles like this.
Great read.
My birthday was last week. Among other gifts, my parents gave me a long-term disability insurance policy. Sure, it doesn’t pack the punch of a new drum kit, but it’s probably one of the most important and valuable things they could ever provide for me after a safe home and an education.
Today, as Dad was filling out the application with me, he ran through that awful list of questions you always have to answer for insurance stuff:
In the last ten years, have you been treated for or diagnosed with…
…disease of the lungs?
…heart?
…liver?
…diabetes?
…addiction to narcotics?
…cancer?
…leukemia?
…plague?
…crusades?
…inquisition?
At one point, he said what goes without saying: Answering “No” almost all the way down the page makes you feel so lucky to lead just a normal life, and mine is so much better even than that.
Unrelated: Tonight, Ben and I finished recording guitar for two of the five (six?) songs on the EP. It was a breakthrough session, one of the best in a while. With his touch, this project is breathing life into my music like no one’s ever heard.
I am clearly a working stiff, as the highlight of this week (after recording with Ben and Hangouts) was going to be going to Khaki HQ today and buying another pair of awesome pants with a 45% off Wednesday coupon AND. AND! the $20 rewards credit they sent me in the mail.
Now the big day is here and I can’t find the $20 credit anywhere.
DAY. IS. RUINED.
How are you?
