All the vampires walkin' through the valley

Writer Jenny Odell for her book How to Do Nothing has coined the term 'attention economy' which she describes as the:

buying and selling of attention. But I think I'm probably using it in two different ways. One is really literal: the design of a social media app to keep you on it. ... [And then there’s] the culture that design enables: the really, insanely short news cycle, or this general feeling something might have happened in the five minutes you were gone. The feeling that if you don't express yourself online every single day, you cease to exist.

Full interview by Clay Skipper (yes, really) at GQ.com.

Scott Walker in 2008:

I'm not a recluse ... I’m definitely not that. I have friends and I go to dinner. I like people, but sometimes I can't wait to get away and be on my own again. I am solitary, though. I need to be for my work. That’s the deal.

Full interview with Sean O'Hagan at The Guardian.

The Walker Brothers' 'The Electrician' is here, among other places. And here's 'Nite Flights', both 1978.