jason's dirty little secrets...
Do you have, or not have, any views that just don't meld with your surrounding social strata? Do you not discuss these much, not because of embarrassment, but because you just don't really care? I have a couple:
- I am indifferent to musical formats. Really. I couldn't care less if a recording was on vinyl, cd, cassette, 8-track...whatever. As long as I can listen to it and it sounds good, bring it on. This has not always gone over well in the underground punk subculture I am semi-immersed in. Vinyl rules, and that's all there is to it. Now I GET that vinyl technically has the potential to sound better than other mediums. But usually the nerds that argue this point have a turntable hooked up to a boombox from 1989, which is hooked into speakers that are from 1975 and may or may not be ripped or blown out. I also have had the misfortune to have been in a band that put out a 7" that, for cost reasons, was put on cheap vinyl, and in the end sounded far WORSE than it would have on one of those EVIL compact disks. If you can do a record and do it right, by all means do a record. But if you are paying MORE to sound WORSE just to be cool...come on. Bottom line- if you like music, get a good stereo. If you put out music, make a cool cover, make the lyrics readable, and make it sound as good as you can, no matter what the format. This is how I do.
-Food politics do nothing for me. I greatly respect veggie/vegan folks and would never mock that lifestyle. I've got plenty of radical, utopian ideals as well, so I can relate. But I just feel that if I was to make a list of "top 100 problems in the world" that human animal consumption would probably come up in the 50's or 60's. Meaning there is a lot of shit that needs to be worried about before that. Also, food politics are just so privileged. A majority of humanity is struggling to eat at all. And yes, I GET that there are environmental consequences an I GET that there are health issues, but there is just so much else I'd rather focus on- good and bad.
So yeah, crucify me, crucify me.
- I am indifferent to musical formats. Really. I couldn't care less if a recording was on vinyl, cd, cassette, 8-track...whatever. As long as I can listen to it and it sounds good, bring it on. This has not always gone over well in the underground punk subculture I am semi-immersed in. Vinyl rules, and that's all there is to it. Now I GET that vinyl technically has the potential to sound better than other mediums. But usually the nerds that argue this point have a turntable hooked up to a boombox from 1989, which is hooked into speakers that are from 1975 and may or may not be ripped or blown out. I also have had the misfortune to have been in a band that put out a 7" that, for cost reasons, was put on cheap vinyl, and in the end sounded far WORSE than it would have on one of those EVIL compact disks. If you can do a record and do it right, by all means do a record. But if you are paying MORE to sound WORSE just to be cool...come on. Bottom line- if you like music, get a good stereo. If you put out music, make a cool cover, make the lyrics readable, and make it sound as good as you can, no matter what the format. This is how I do.
-Food politics do nothing for me. I greatly respect veggie/vegan folks and would never mock that lifestyle. I've got plenty of radical, utopian ideals as well, so I can relate. But I just feel that if I was to make a list of "top 100 problems in the world" that human animal consumption would probably come up in the 50's or 60's. Meaning there is a lot of shit that needs to be worried about before that. Also, food politics are just so privileged. A majority of humanity is struggling to eat at all. And yes, I GET that there are environmental consequences an I GET that there are health issues, but there is just so much else I'd rather focus on- good and bad.
So yeah, crucify me, crucify me.