Is it just me or does anyone else feel that good music has completely disappeared? Maybe it's been kidnapped and will be returned to us in 18 years like Jaycee Dugard. Maybe it died and went unnoticed like Farrah Fawcett after the death of the King of Pop. Or maybe there are just no radio stations left that play good music because advertisers obviously wouldn't know a good tune if it bit them in the ass.
Either way, good music where the fuck are you hiding?
Let me start by saying this. Like most other human beings, I love music. In fact, I live for music. Music pretty much defines my life, and as of late, my life’s soundtrack has been pretty shitty.
My favorite thing about music is the art of creating the mixed tape/CD. As I’ve mentioned before I’m completely technologically retarded and while I have finally upgraded to an iPod, I’ve found that playlists just don’t do for me what a mixed CD does. I love the way you can pop in a mixed CD you haven’t heard in years and it will bring you back to that exact time and place when you made the CD. All the same feelings you had then come back and for those 15 songs, you start to think about the same people who you were thinking about then. This is the reason why my CD Walkman and I are still BFF’s.
When I was younger, I knew all the best bands and all the best songs before anyone else had even heard of them. My friends all came to me, “DJ No Clue,” to make them good CD’s. Whenever I met someone for the first time, I’d make sure that we exchanged mixed CD’s because the only way you can really get to know someone is by their taste in music, or so I thought back then. However, as I’ve gotten older I find that I don’t have the time to scour the Internet in search of great, up-and-coming artists to (illegally) download as many of their songs as I possibly can without getting arrested.
Before the end of the Howard Stern era, I could actually say that I listened to the radio proudly. While 92.3 K-Rock was not breaking new artists left and right, they could be relied on to always play a good mix of music. They played some Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, but then they’d play a little Brand New, Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy (before anyone knew "Dance, Dance") They mixed in a little Slip Knot and Deftones after they played RadioHead and Metallica. They weren’t playing completely unknown bands, (as that’s reserved for the good college stations in your reception area,) but the music was good and I didn’t have to listen to "Oops! I Did It Again" 57 times in the 3 hours I was listening to the radio.
But then Howard Stern got fired for the umpteenth time and went to satellite radio, and that was pretty much the day the music died. Don McLean definitely said it best. Maybe he was the Nostradamus of music, who knows. Anyway, now I turn on K-Rock and it makes me wanna vom when I hear Lil' Wayne wanting to lick my wrapper.
Don’t get me wrong, I like hip-hop. I love all good music. I don’t hate. Jay-Z is probably my idol, and definitely the greatest, most intelligent person in the music biz right now. But, let’s face it- a very large majority of the music that’s on the radio right now is CRAP.
I’m no music critic but seriously the dude from Degrassi is a rapper and his song is on Hot 97.1 every 5 minutes. That’s like Zack Morris heading up a punk band in the 80’s, it’s just wrong. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga is bleeding from her eyes while she pokes my face. I just don’t get it.
But, “I Gotta Feeling” that music is gonna be gone for a long, long time. Music hurry home. And, if anyone has my music hiding in their basement, I’m willing to pay a very large reward to bring music back.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Houston- I Have a BLOG...
So, I recently read somewhere that not having a blog is akin to not having a telephone. I don't know that I agree with this arguement wholeheartedly, as I think those without a Facebook account are much worse off. However, I figure it's about time that I get with the times, technolgically speaking.
I resisted Myspace for the first year it was available, thinking that posing half naked and getting in touch with the people I hated in high school were not for me. Shortly after creating my account, I was a full-fledged addict. I was on Myspace all hours of the day and night, pimping my profile, stalking even people I didn't know, and posting retarted comments on my roomie's wall while she was sitting right next to me. And then, the viruses happened, and Myspace started its downward spiral.
Surprisingly, I've always had a Facebook account. Lifetimes ago, when you could only sign up if you were in college, I registered with my FIT address and began to grow my network. I signed into Facebook rarely because A. it wasn't as fun as Myspace B. all of my friends went to other schools (or didn't go at all,) and it looked pretty pathetic that I had like 5 friends in my FIT network and C. I just didn't get it. And then, the unthinkable happened-Everyone became obsessed with Facebook. Bye Bye Myspace. When I say everyone, I mean it seems like the collective world got together oneday and decided that they were no longer going to use Myspace, and Facebook was the new dictator of Social Networking-land.
Needless to say, I was pissed off. I didn't know how to use anything, I missed Myspace and what the hell was up with the status?! I don't want anyone knowing what I'm doing every second of the day. And, who the efffff cares that
Dick just woke up.
Dick is getting dressed.
Dick just went to the bathroom.
Dick walked three feet
Dick is a moron
The only status that I would like to see from people like that is Dick just killed himself.
While I still loathe those people that have enough minutes in their day to update me on every single action, I now know how to use Facebook enough that I can actually block these people. I have Facebook on my BlackBerry, I update my status at least once a day, and I definitely still get excited to see that I have 5 new notifications when I sign on.
So, I'm going to give this blogging thing a try. I'm not really sure what it's going to be about just yet, so we'll have to wait and figure that out together. I survived the disappearance of AOL, the Blackberry upgrade, and weining myself off of Myspace with the help of Facebook. So, I'm pretty sure this blogging thing won't be so bad.
For starters, this post was a lot easier to figure out than sending a BBM Pin request- it still gets me everytime.
I resisted Myspace for the first year it was available, thinking that posing half naked and getting in touch with the people I hated in high school were not for me. Shortly after creating my account, I was a full-fledged addict. I was on Myspace all hours of the day and night, pimping my profile, stalking even people I didn't know, and posting retarted comments on my roomie's wall while she was sitting right next to me. And then, the viruses happened, and Myspace started its downward spiral.
Surprisingly, I've always had a Facebook account. Lifetimes ago, when you could only sign up if you were in college, I registered with my FIT address and began to grow my network. I signed into Facebook rarely because A. it wasn't as fun as Myspace B. all of my friends went to other schools (or didn't go at all,) and it looked pretty pathetic that I had like 5 friends in my FIT network and C. I just didn't get it. And then, the unthinkable happened-Everyone became obsessed with Facebook. Bye Bye Myspace. When I say everyone, I mean it seems like the collective world got together oneday and decided that they were no longer going to use Myspace, and Facebook was the new dictator of Social Networking-land.
Needless to say, I was pissed off. I didn't know how to use anything, I missed Myspace and what the hell was up with the status?! I don't want anyone knowing what I'm doing every second of the day. And, who the efffff cares that
Dick just woke up.
Dick is getting dressed.
Dick just went to the bathroom.
Dick walked three feet
Dick is a moron
The only status that I would like to see from people like that is Dick just killed himself.
While I still loathe those people that have enough minutes in their day to update me on every single action, I now know how to use Facebook enough that I can actually block these people. I have Facebook on my BlackBerry, I update my status at least once a day, and I definitely still get excited to see that I have 5 new notifications when I sign on.
So, I'm going to give this blogging thing a try. I'm not really sure what it's going to be about just yet, so we'll have to wait and figure that out together. I survived the disappearance of AOL, the Blackberry upgrade, and weining myself off of Myspace with the help of Facebook. So, I'm pretty sure this blogging thing won't be so bad.
For starters, this post was a lot easier to figure out than sending a BBM Pin request- it still gets me everytime.
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