I couldn’t help but notice the perspective Sixx puts on his latest work:

“We have managers and record company people saying that there was this massive machine and nobody was willing to take it off the road and fix the broken wheel,” he said. “It would have cost them money. It was more important to keep the business rolling than confronting me. I was left out there to die. ‘Hey, let him shoot up, and don’t ruffle his feathers. I want my 15%.’ That’s how it works.”

Sound familiar? How many industries do not operate in this fashion? Ends justifies the means. The bigger question, perhaps, is how he would suggest it change. Regulations?

Here is an interesting twist to the story:

A portion of the proceeds from the book will go to Running Wild in the Night, a fund-raising initiative for Covenant House California, which aids struggling youth. “Heroin” will be accompanied with what Sixx calls “a soundtrack,” an album of songs inspired by the book and recorded with his band Sixx:AM.

Sixx is aware that many fans will be more drawn to the “Behind the Music”-like tales of the book rather than the look at a junkie caught up in a music machine.

“You have to be drawn to the car race because you think there’s going to be a car crash,” he says. “So if that’s what it takes, fine. If people want to read this book to see how fucked up my life was, and to see how many drugs I took, and to read about my crazy sexcapades, then fine. But in the end, every time the book sells, it’s going to put money into a bank account to keep some kids off the street.”

Sounds good, sort of…isn’t that more ends justifies the means? It doesn’t always work out so well, as in the case where the car crash actually kills the people who are trying to contribute.

Here is a funny perspective on the life of the security response staff at Microsoft:

What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft’s Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine’s 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science.

Come on now. Whale-feces research can’t be that bad, can it?

Popular Science says “we salute the men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward”. However, the Microsoft employees quoted in InfoWorld hardly give any indication that they lack satisfaction:

Microsoft’s Mark Griesi considers ranking among the worst as a badge of honor, in part because his grandfather read the story and thought it was “pretty cool to see my team on the list,” he said.

Look gramps, no security!