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This isn't a post about ad-blocking. That the technology is now here, is a direct result of the privacy, security and less-than-ideal user experiences that publishers have pushed on readers. It was inevitable. It is their reliance on advertising and its accompanying rules that have pushed people into corners where they didn't want to be — playing the role of Baby. Swayze, come save me.

This is a post about how you can do things well.

I've long admired Jim Coudal and his entire humble crew. I got to know Jim from being a designer in Chicago, and then better when I co-founded Gapers Block, and even better yet during the end of our run in Chicago, when my wife worked at Coudal. I may now be biased, but from day one, Coudal Partners was an inspiration. They still are.

Here's an article from Fast.Co Design that gets at what Coudal's doing pretty well. Actually, scratch that. You should really just read it straight from the horse's mouth. Jim's always been a great writer, and it's no surprise that their Privacy Policy is direct and plain spoken: "We're fine with knowing nothing."

The Deck has been the ONLY ad network whose ads I've ever clicked on. There are reasons for this (which they plainly state on their homepage) but the simple matter of it comes down to trust. The Deck carefully curates both advertisers and members, and does it tastefully.

Booking Bands is still one of my favorite campfire games so I thought I'd resurrect the dormant list that's sitting over on a dormant blog and could use some love here on TMN. 

The first time I heard of Booking Bands was from Jim Coudal at the 2008 SXSW. Audio podcast of his talk is worth your time. You can hear me asking a question on there at 37:10.

Quick rules refresh: Combine the name of a band or musician with the name of a book or vice versa. Coudal’s site bent the rules more than I’ll allow so don’t go bastardizing shite!

The List (so far)…

zero7 habits of Highly Effective People

The Old Man and the Sea & Cake

National Velvet Underground

Big Black Beauty

The Flying Burrito Brothers Karamazov

The Doobie Brothers Karamazov

The Bacon Brothers Karamazov

The Allmann Brothers Karamazov

The Chemical Brothers Karamazov

The Dust Brothers Karamazov

The Beach Boys from Brazil

The Beastie Boys from Brazil

The Petshop Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazilian Girls

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Theft

Al Green Eggs and Ham

The Dangerous Book for Boys to Men

KRS-1 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Love in the Time of Choler-Abba

A New Earth Wind and Fire

Cujo Strummer and the Mescaleros

Jimmy Eat World According to Garp

Interview with a Vampire Weekend

Everclear and Present Danger

Three Cups of TRex

The Sorcerer’s Stone Temple Pilots

Cat Power of One

Cat Power of Now

Of Mice and Men at Work

Arcade Fire Starter

Slaughterhouse Five for Fighting

The Woman in White Stripes

Cinderella

Steppenwolf

A Midsommer’s Night Dream Syndicate

All Quiet on the Western Front 242

System of a Down and Out in Paris and London

Oliver Twisted Sister

Flaming Lipstick Jungle

Aimee Mann of La Mancha

Three Musketeers for Fears

Lovely Bones Thugs & Harmony

Shiny Toy Guns, Germs and Steele

Amy Winehouse of Spirits

Field of Dreams Syndicate

The Fifth Elemental Organic Chemistry (book, too?)

The Rolling Stones of Ibarra

The Dark Tower of Power

Children of Men Without Hats

Carrie Underwood

Eight Men Outfield

The Church of Dead Girls

The Color of Waterboys

horton hears a whootie & the blowfish

kanye west side story

billie holidays on ice

coldplay it again sam

At Play in the Fields of the Lords of Acid

The Scarlet Letters to Cleo

A Clear and Present Danger Mouse

Rabbit Run DMC

Moby Dick

Moby Dick Dale

Love and Rockets in the Time of Cholera (stretch?)

Curious George Clinton

Running with Scissors Sisters

The World is Flatt & Scruggs

The Diary of Anne Frank Black and the Catholics (I like the dual religiosity)

The Diary of Anne Frank Allison and the Odd Sox

The Diary of Anne Frank Sinatra

Beastie Boys from Brazil

Corey Heart of Darkness

Green Hills of Afrika Bambaataa

BB King Lear

Midsummer Night’s Dreamland

Romeo Void and Juliet

Lord of The Ringo Starr

Rough Stone Rolling Stones

Cat Empire of the Sun

A Face in the Crowded House

Far From the Madding Crowded House

Gang of Four Past Midnight

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Brothers

Maurice Day and the Time Traveler’s Wife

The God of Small Dirty Pretty Things

True History of the Kelly Gangajang

No Country for Old Men at Work

Such a Long Journeymen

The Boney M People

Oscar and Lucinda Williams

The Van She

The The Sound and The Fury

The The Great Gatsby… ok, that would be cheating. The The is The swiss army knife of Booking Bands

Bob Marley and Me

Long Days JOURNEY into Night

Our Townes Van Zant

The King James Brown Bible

The Korani di Franco

Horton Hears The Who

The Village People’s History of the United States

The Tipping Pointer Sisters

The Good Earth Wind and Fire

What’s the Matter with Kansas

The Spin Doctors Zhivago

The Wizard of Ozzy Osbourne

The Joy Division of Cooking

Alice in Chains, in Wonderland

Curious George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars

1 Phish, 2 Phish, Red Phish, Blue Phish

Genesis (easy)

Mercury Revelations

U2 Towers

Jonathan Richman Poor Man

Henry the Vth Dimension

welcome to the monkey house of pain

Anthropologist on Mars Volta

Wizard of Ozzy Ozbourne

Hero with a Thousand Maniacs

The Rise and Fall Out Boy of The Third Reich

Yonder Mountain String Band of Brothers

The Secret Life of Beestie Boys

Until I Find U2

Savage Sam Bush

Heidi Lite [editor note: this one gets high marks!!]

Til Tuesdays with Morrie

Railroad Earth in the Balance

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five People You Meet in Heaven

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyro Gyra

A Raisin in the Sunny Rollins

Invisible Manfred Mann

The Great Gats-B-52′s

The Lionel Ritchie, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The 1984-Tops

How the Kanye West Was Won

Sweeney Todd Rundgren

The Sonny & Cher Also Rises

The Old Man and the Cee-Lo

Valley of the Pussycat Dolls

Fun with Dick and Jane’s Addiction

Running with Scissor Sisters

Tears for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Macbeth Orton

Prince Caspian

The Elements of Style Council

Jackson Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do you See?

Ladysmith Black MambazOthello

Pedro the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Scott Baiowolf (he made an album, I’m sure of it)

The Glass Menagerie placements

Crowded House of 7 Gables

Led Zeppelin to the Wild

Led Zeppelin Cold Blood, and so on . . .

Good Charlotte’s Web

Housekeeping vs. the Dirty Projectors

The New York Times says "Walgreen" much to the delight of the author of this post on Coudal's site.