I guess the whole consistency thing is sort of out the window by now, considering the fact that its been over a month since my last post. It doesnt really matter anyway, I guess. As long as I do at least continue to post, the frequency is not important. Its a blog - here for me when I'm ready, without the pressures of a due date that tend to quash the usual surge of creativity necessary for writing anything truly meaningful. Thats the beauty of technology.
Now that I think about it, I have always been really interested by all that technology has been able to offer. Computers have been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can recall sitting at the keyboard clicking away at the now seemingly ancient program known as "Reader Rabbit", aimed at strengthening a kindergartener's reading fluency and mathematical skills. I remember my parents bringing home our family's first Game Boy Colors, a green one for me, and a yellow one for my brother. I've used playstastions, PS2, Gamecubes, XBox, Wii, Nintendo 64, cellphones, ipods - pretty much everything that has come out in the last decade or so. And with that, I have also been part of many of the online phenomenons, from the childish worlds of Neopets and Millsberry, to the now widespread and more mainstream vehicles of Twitter and Facebook.
Speaking of Facebook, that sort of brings me to something that has been bothering me a little bit lately. I, like most teenagers who live on planet earth, am a member of the Facebook community. Its almost obligatory - you reach a certain age, you get a Facebook. Theres nothing unique about it. Everyone has one and everyone expects everyone else to have one. Its kind of like our generation has been brainwashed or hardwired (technology joke, haha) to follow this 'jump on the bandwagon' mentality. We completely eat up everything thats spoon-fed to us by the media and power hungry consumer market executives. Its like we dont even really know how to truly communicate with each other anymore. Its sad to think that we've lost the ability to express ourselves without clicking on a keyboard and using a devolved form of english made up of abbreviations and nonsensicle substitutions, such as using a 'y' in the word 'like', making it come out as 'lyk'. I dont mean to be as harshly critical as I sound, so I'll get off this soap box now :)
Anyway, on a completely different note, I been obssessing over a bunch of new music lately. A lot of it I find thanks to the musically eclectic line up on So You Think You Can Dance. Besides being an amazing reality program that showcases insane dance talent, the music they have in the background of the routines is amazing. The show has helped launch the careers of several very well known artists. One of its most recent gems is Christina Perri and her song "Jar of Hearts". The song is amazing, and the story behind the singer is even more amazing. If you dont know it already, you should really look into it.
Now that I think about it, I have always been really interested by all that technology has been able to offer. Computers have been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can recall sitting at the keyboard clicking away at the now seemingly ancient program known as "Reader Rabbit", aimed at strengthening a kindergartener's reading fluency and mathematical skills. I remember my parents bringing home our family's first Game Boy Colors, a green one for me, and a yellow one for my brother. I've used playstastions, PS2, Gamecubes, XBox, Wii, Nintendo 64, cellphones, ipods - pretty much everything that has come out in the last decade or so. And with that, I have also been part of many of the online phenomenons, from the childish worlds of Neopets and Millsberry, to the now widespread and more mainstream vehicles of Twitter and Facebook.
Speaking of Facebook, that sort of brings me to something that has been bothering me a little bit lately. I, like most teenagers who live on planet earth, am a member of the Facebook community. Its almost obligatory - you reach a certain age, you get a Facebook. Theres nothing unique about it. Everyone has one and everyone expects everyone else to have one. Its kind of like our generation has been brainwashed or hardwired (technology joke, haha) to follow this 'jump on the bandwagon' mentality. We completely eat up everything thats spoon-fed to us by the media and power hungry consumer market executives. Its like we dont even really know how to truly communicate with each other anymore. Its sad to think that we've lost the ability to express ourselves without clicking on a keyboard and using a devolved form of english made up of abbreviations and nonsensicle substitutions, such as using a 'y' in the word 'like', making it come out as 'lyk'. I dont mean to be as harshly critical as I sound, so I'll get off this soap box now :)
Anyway, on a completely different note, I been obssessing over a bunch of new music lately. A lot of it I find thanks to the musically eclectic line up on So You Think You Can Dance. Besides being an amazing reality program that showcases insane dance talent, the music they have in the background of the routines is amazing. The show has helped launch the careers of several very well known artists. One of its most recent gems is Christina Perri and her song "Jar of Hearts". The song is amazing, and the story behind the singer is even more amazing. If you dont know it already, you should really look into it.
Here's the link:
"Jar of Hearts" - Christina Perri
Some other songs I have been listening over and over to online lately are less deep and thought-provoking, but in a way just as good. The ones I've been obssessing over are parodies and silly stories set to music. Here are some of my favorites.
"Mrs. Sharp" - Singers at Rated RSO
"You are My B$tch" - Skylar Astin and Robb Sapp
"Todd" - Mitzi Michaels
"Q Train to Coney Island" - Wesley Taylor and Josh Young
"Fat Old Men" - Matt Doyle
So I guess todays post has been kind of all over the place. To be honest, its taken me three hours to finish this, which means I probably shouldnt have even tried to make one because obviously there wasnt really anything concrete that I had wanted to write about. I hate writing just for the sake of writing. But in my defense, the entire post did come full circle toward the end, despite all the babbling. I mean, I started out talking about technology and I ended with a bunch of videos from youtube...which is technological in a way, right? So yeah, next time I'll try to a have a more solid train of thought so I dont end up rambling on an on about a whole lot of nothing.
