No, not talking about housing prices.
Compare and contrast: Peter Gabriel’s $250,000 “The Shed” is a 240 square foot state of the art recording studio you can have drop-shipped to you; or MC Lars’s “Post-punk laptop rap,” done in a “studio” that probably cost less than $5,000 and can fit in a sufficiently large notebook bag. Maybe Peter Gabriel is more successful, more creative. But I bet he’s not 50 times as creative, and 50 times more successful over the long term remains to be seen.
If you want to know some of my thoughts on Asia, be sure to check out my latest item over at Central Sanity. Otherwise, in closing: 54 random thoughts from Digital Penguin; Farmers want to grow a proven, useful crop but the Feds won’t let them because it might be mistaken for drugs; best item to date on the biggest problem facing American families that we don’t talk about; and the item I originally intended to rant about, on any typical day thousands of American teenagers are drinking, smoking, doing drugs. I notice they specifically did not mention having sex, being involved in a gang, or any other ways they could be getting into trouble. Well gee, people, maybe if the high school didn’t dismiss before 2 PM they wouldn’t have time for drugs! I hate being the voice of reason on this. I encourage everyone to send this article to the local school board, along with an article about how teenager’s brains aren’t awake at 7:30 AM. Reasonable high school hours == instant achievement + reduced trouble. It’s a good thing.