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Posted Mar. 17, 2008,
Me at the 1994 Launch of PAPERMAG.com in My Banshee Girl Earrings!
By Kim Hastreiter
Wanna have a good laugh??? Well I sure had one this weekend when David Hershkovits sent me this YouTube he found of me talking to Brandywine and Jayne County from the PAPERMAG launch on the "world wide web" 14 years ago at Irving Plaza. Oh my God, what a time warp. Back then only geeks went on the internet and none of the downtown dragoons or fashion kids knew how to go online. Remember, this was a time when only the super geeks had modems ( and dial ups to boot)! Netscape was just launched and PAPERMAG was born. It was quite a party. Check out my sick Banshee earrings. I forgot I had these and dug them out of my drawer after seeing myself in them. They are fierce, as they say.
Posted Aug. 2, 2007,
Elton John Hates the Internet
By David Hershkovits
Sir Elton John is showing his age as well as his technophobia when he says the Internet is destroying music. A self-confessed Luddite with no cell phone or iPod, John says: "The Internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision."
Really? Seems to me people are out more than ever and one of things they are doing is listening to live music. To bands that perform in clubs where people actually do meet and communicate, unlike in the caverns of Madison Square Garden, where John recently performed while simultaneously streaming the show on the Internet.