The huge revelation for the day was this: no one in Germany has heard Dave Matthews. I asked all my roommates and coworkers and it was all the same. Somehow, amid Ashanti and P Diddy and that crappy new "Get It On" remake and Eminem's latest (geez how many times have I heard that in the last week!), German MTV "forgot about Dave." They even know about Weezer, for crying out loud, but not Dave Matthews, who is apparently America's best-kept secret. Someone asked me, "What kind of music is it?" and then I had the problem that so many other people have had. "Uh, it's like Jazz, but not really, kind of folksy, but not too folksy, you know..." How would you describe Dave anyway? Perhaps the European record execs were wondering the same thing and just gave up on it.
Matt showed me Robocode, a project from IBM that allows you to program robot AIs in Java and then pit them against each other in battle. Think I'm going to try my hand at it.
Posted by Alan at April 27, 2002 11:36 PM