The Beatles - early days

10 Great Music Demotivators

...and as it happens,
6 out of 10 of them were done by me.

coincidence?
probably not...

rock on!

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iPod therefore I am

i have the same mixed feelings
about the Ipod that i had 
about the walkman 
back in the day...

i also know how de-stressing
it can be to pull back
from the whole 'reality' thing...
a bike ride,
a plane,
a bus full of cranky wet people... 

sometimes the world is easier
to deal with when you are
in charge of the soundtrack.
it can be a pleasant escape,
or even a necessary one.

but it does isolate us
from each other...
and when i think about that,
it's still a weird thing.
back when, music was something
to bring people together.
when i wear my mp3 player,
music becomes something
to keep us apart...

likewise, the cel phone.

i don't like cel phones.

i think that just as all the street 
lights and security floodlights
are a sign of a culture
that's afraid of the dark,
cel phones are a sign
of a culture that's afraid
- very afraid -
to be alone. 

...so afraid that they are willing
to settle for a disembodied
experience of invisible friends...
make that virtual friends...
if it means they don't have
to be alone
with themselves.
or be where they are
now.

yup.
 
from now on, when i'm in
a cellular environment, i'm just
going to keep on singing
along to my favourite songs.

i'm not a loud singer, but i don't
hit every harmony i go for,
even if i've heard the song
a million times.

but to hell with it-
if people can insert half
of all the trivial conversations
of their lives in my sonic space,
i can sing into theirs. 
yup....

-30-

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the Charts

Incredibly Cool Record Players

There was a time you would see these things
absolutely everywhere... especially in the
boudoirs of young men and women still
living at home.

These days, that space is most likely occupied
by a computer, or a TV, or maybe both. It says
something, i think, about the role that music
played in lives back when, and the role it plays
... or doesn't play in those demographics today.

Is it easier to feel nostalgic about these
colourful musical sculptures than it will
be about iPhones in a decade or two?


Maybe there won't even be a need
for nostalgia then...

Maybe there won't be anything 
to be nostalgic about.

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