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Randal Neal Cohen

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About Me

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My Interests

music, movies, books, sports (play basketball, watch football)

I'd like to meet:

musicians, music supervisors, producers, managers, a&r.... creative and interesting people who are good at their art... and good at their lives. a sharp wit is a plus.

Music:

beatles, espers, decemberists, marc antoine, all bossa nova, elbow, erik satie, comets on fire, thievery corporation, peter gabriel/genesis, pink floyd, !!!, mercury rev, the shins, grant green, joni mitchell, dead can dance, stan getz, calexico, pat metheny, caribou, beck, david byrne, zombies, counting crows, dean martin, high llamas, afro celts, suzanne vega, yardbirds, boards of canada, david bowie, golden smog, steely dan, lemon jelly , steve wynn, uncle tupelo, xtc, air, radiohead, the feelies, john coltrane

Movies:

the big lebowski, monty python's holy grail, manhattan, much ado about nothing, american beauty, la vie en rose, no such thing, donnie darko, shakespeare in love, lars and the real girl, pi, manhattan, united 93, bladerunner, dirty rotten scoundrels, chinatown, nacho libre, lost in translation, princess bride, monster's ball, shopgirl, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind; the good, the bad, and the ugly; stranger than fiction, a clockwork orange, yellow submarine, king of hearts, the long good friday, what about bob?, igby goes down, roxanne, betty blue, I love you to death, who framed roger rabbit?, henry v, the haunting of hill house, oldboy, dream with fishes, annie hall, defending your life, war of the worlds (remake)

Television:

entourage, deadwood, sopranos, the avengers, coupling (british version), the office (british version), scrubs, firefly, battlestar gallactica (remake), city of men, extras, flight of the conchords, max headroom, x-files, john from cincinnati, mad men

Books:

the sheltering sky, all the pretty horses, altered carbon, remains of the day, brave new world, lord of the rings, john adams, pride and prejudice, the stranger, a canticle for liebowitz, hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world , the pickwick papers, another roadside attraction, bright lights big city, war and peace, moby dick, the phantom tollbooth, charlie and the chocolate factory, count of monte christo, collected works of raymond chandler, into the wild, the changeling, the great influenza, tortilla flats/cannery row, einstein's dreams

Heroes:

shakespeare

My Blog

"PAYING FOR MUSIC IS STUPID"

I have friends who get all of their music from borrowing and burning friends' cd's or illegal downloads. The justification is still the same: the labels are ripping us off! A cd costs a dollar to man...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:30:00 PST

TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2006

Here are my favorite commercial releases from last year. I welcome your thoughts:1. espers- II2. decemberists- the crane wife3. comets on fire- avatar4. built to spill- you in reverse5. trail of the d...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

Artists/ labels to radio: stop ripping us off!

In every other developed country in the world every time a song gets played on the radio the artist gets a royalty along with the songwriter. Not in the USA, however. Here, artists get nothing. My f...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:35:00 PST

Death of the Album?

Our lifestyles are increasingly frenetic and mobile. This has affected America's viewing and listening habits. Just as Tivo has transformed television, sea changes in how we listen to music are occ...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:49:00 PST

Nobody makes good music any more?

I was looking through my myspace friends and decided to check out guitarist Kaki King. I sampled the music on her page and thought it was intriguing so I BOUGHT her latest album. After listening to...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:10:00 PST

HIRING A MANAGER OR ATTORNEY

Rules and Philosophies in the hiring of Music Attorneys and Personal Managers:   The Personal Manager gives advice and counsel in all aspects of the artist's creative career and bases his co...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:39:00 PST

Are musicians being ripped off in cyberspace?

Billy Bragg, musician and artist-advocate, recently published an article in Billboard magazine warning musicians about being ripped off on music sites. Artists uploading their songs onto social n...
Posted by Randal Neal Cohen on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:05:00 PST