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I fell asleep to “I Mother Earth” the album “The Quicksilver Meat Dream”
Wear a shirt, listen to the band!
I exercised to “Finger Eleven” the album “Tip”
I watched “This is Life” on CNN with Lisa Ling last Sunday. It was about people becoming addicted to technology. They even mentioned that kids are committing suicide or throwing tantrums when their phone, tablet, computer, etc. is taken away, kids who have graduated high school or have dropped out of school. I guess there is a rehab place for it in Silicon Valley. One guy who was suicidal, because he played games on his cell phone so much he wouldn’t sleep, he just kept playing the game, he stopped speaking to other people completely. He spoke to the group, including his sister & parents about just getting a flip phone.
What am I trying to explain here is that the Facebook message, email, tweet, etc. will be there, even if you don’t reply instantly. Nobody talks to anyone any more. I’ll text you, email you, Facebook you, etc. that’s all I hear. You can call me, Facebook me, or email me to get together later on. Then we can talk face to face.
I’m not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I refuse to get a smart phone. I don’t want to hear an alert from my phone all of the time. My wife has a cell phone & it drives me nuts when she sets it on the couch & I feel it vibrate or hear it make a sound. If I really need a phone, I’ll get a flip phone & people can call me.
Companies like google, yahoo, email sites, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. are trying to push out as much crap as possible to keep you engaged with your phone as long as possible so they can make more money.
You know what’s coming next? Robots, that are stronger than us. Jim Jefferies even had a segment about them. They’re real, & I want no part of it!
LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kids on average get a cell phone between the ages of 6-13. Why do kids need/want a cell phone at that age? I’m 38 with nothing more than a desktop computer aka I don’t freak out without a cell phone in my pocket. It is so nice to not worry about that. What is on my computer desk? Pens & paper, to write down new phone numbers & new passwords.
Kids are said to be more depressed these days because of less human interaction & they’re not the C.E.O. a successful business after being there for 8 months. Chill out, the Earth doesn’t orbit around anyone, just the sun.
I do the same with this blog & assume everyone knows how I’m doing? Well not everyone is reading this. If they’re in a different province or country, I’ll email them or Facebook them, however they prefer to be reached. I don’t send enough messages as I should though.
This is one of the reasons Dave Grohl is so cool!
Are Pentatonix going to release a Christmas album every year? They’re on pace for it.
This is why I’m against streaming music & digital downloads. Apple needs to get rid of their streaming music site, let the artists set the price between $9.99 to 14.99 per download. The option? Streaming sites need to pay the artist more! I’ve got 600 CDs behind me in boxes. The average cost of a CD was around $20- $25. Artists could put the price at $18.99 & it would still be cheap for people like me. I’m not an Avenged Sevenfold fan but this was the article that I saw. 99.9% of their income comes from touring. I haven’t seen every band I like live, so they’re missing out on money from me in a way, I guess?
http://loudwire.com/avenged-sevenfold-synyster-gates-touring-99-9-percent-bands-income/
Would you want to spend $1000s of dollars on recording the music, paying a producer, a sound engineer, etc.? Only to give it away on a fraction of a penny? I’d make music for myself & tour every 5 years while working at another job 5 days a week.
Why would ‘System of a Down’ even consider getting a therapist like ‘Metallica’? Remember after ‘Metallica’ got a therapist they gave us the album ‘St. Anger’. An album that sounds terrible with 0 solos. The solo thing I can get past, the production & song writing on that album leaves a LOT to be desired.
I wonder who put gasoline on the fire of the lies, deception, & hatred?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I only own the album “Born in the USA”. This is an album I heard as a kid, my dad was really into it. He has the regular vinyl edition & bought a special edition that’s still sealed in the purchased packaging. I bought this album on iTunes & added a few extra songs from his greatest hits album.
I saw this video ^^ while I was watching “FRIENDS” as a teenager & asked “Is that Monica from friends?” Reply from my parents “Yes, it is” I was surprised.
These are all on the album. The following is one of the songs I added.
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Why did this become a music blog? “Because music is a BIG @#!$%^*&( DEAL”-Dave Grohl
“I feel good about the good things, & bad about the bad things”-Dave Grohl
“Learn from your mistakes & don’t repeat them”-Chris
Stay safe out there,
Chris
“Be kind to one another”-Ellen Degeneres
