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I like skulls.
And pirates.
Wanna fight sukka?!
I'm going to see Pirates tonight when Robbie and Juicy Juice get home. Just waiting around. Yep.
Today, I've been listening to the radio all day. Only it's not ghey pubicpublic radio. I'm listening on Last.Fm's radio. I downloaded it because I discovered it while in the Ville and decided Robbie wouldn;t mind me downloading it onto his puter. I typed in "The Screamers" because I saw there was a Screamers song being promoted and every time I see that band, I get uber excited because they're awesome and relatively unknown. Bands that nobody knows about usually turn me on.... in a musical sense.
So the radio popped up with "Similar music to The Screamers" and I played it all day until I started playing around with the raaadio knobsss (Dane Cook) and clicked on "The Avengers" because they're pretty rad too. So I've been listening to "Multiple Artist Station for RastaLDread" since then. They've played a lot of good shit. Most of it I've never heard of, which intrigues me. It's just been awesome all around. I like everything about Last.fm. I like that I can discover new shit, simply based on the tagging system. Or type in an artist and it'll give you all sorts of similar sounding tunes.
I like looking at the way people tag things. Sometimes it makes me mad like when I click on "Yellowcard's" profile and I see people tag it as "punk." And I wonder how this tagging will change music. I mean, it is the public that makes music what it is. We make language what it is. I follow the theory of language that states it doesn't matter how a word is spelled, or what it's supposed to mean -- throw the 'dictionary' out the window for all I care, because what matters is what everyone thinks it means. I mean, if you're the only person who thinks classifies a series of bands under a genre, say emo, and no one else really views any of those bands as emo, when you start talking about emo, whoever you're talking to will have a very different perspective of what you're saying [than you] because of his/her definition of "emo." Regardless of the fact that every band you think of as emo, traditionally is emo. Actually, funny that I mention emo, because that's what happened to that definition. Emo of the 80's was quite a different thing than what we think of as emo now. So, when someone mentions "emo" everybody goes "yugh" but in actuality, if that person were talking about what emo is supposed to be then... no one should really think of Dashboard Confessional or ... I can't think of any emo bands right now.
I don't know if any of that made sense, but what I'm trying to say, is music definitions are always changing, and it's interesting to see those changes happen through sources like Last.fm.
And I really enjoy the statistical aspects of Last.fm. And I enjoy how they changed the look. And... yeah I like everything. I already said that.
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I've been really happy lately. I've been wondering if this happiness is just preparing me for something haneous(sp?) to happen soon because I don't think I've ever been this happy. I say it nonchalant, but it's a pretty big deal. And yet it's not. Sometimes I get overexcited. Sometimes I feel like I'm just going with the flow of life. Buddhism has been helping me through all areas in my life and I enjoy seeing Buddhist philosophy practiced in places that don't realize they're Buddhist. Though you can just as easily call it "common sense" and in a way that's all Buddhism really is. Very wise common sense.
But everybody has been encouraging me, telling me I "desearve" this happiness. Reminding me some of the shit I've gone through in life and how I've gotten to where I am. I feel good about things. I feel good about myself, about my life. I think it's because I try to be a good person, and strive for the best everyday. I try to help anyone and everyone as much as possible. I try to put myself last. Or at least, in proper place according to who is in need the most.
And Robbie gets home in about 20 minutes....
oh yeah... and I can never get enouhg of this picture. I don't know. I stare at it a lot.
And pirates.
Wanna fight sukka?!
I'm going to see Pirates tonight when Robbie and Juicy Juice get home. Just waiting around. Yep.
Today, I've been listening to the radio all day. Only it's not ghey pubicpublic radio. I'm listening on Last.Fm's radio. I downloaded it because I discovered it while in the Ville and decided Robbie wouldn;t mind me downloading it onto his puter. I typed in "The Screamers" because I saw there was a Screamers song being promoted and every time I see that band, I get uber excited because they're awesome and relatively unknown. Bands that nobody knows about usually turn me on.... in a musical sense.
So the radio popped up with "Similar music to The Screamers" and I played it all day until I started playing around with the raaadio knobsss (Dane Cook) and clicked on "The Avengers" because they're pretty rad too. So I've been listening to "Multiple Artist Station for RastaLDread" since then. They've played a lot of good shit. Most of it I've never heard of, which intrigues me. It's just been awesome all around. I like everything about Last.fm. I like that I can discover new shit, simply based on the tagging system. Or type in an artist and it'll give you all sorts of similar sounding tunes.
I like looking at the way people tag things. Sometimes it makes me mad like when I click on "Yellowcard's" profile and I see people tag it as "punk." And I wonder how this tagging will change music. I mean, it is the public that makes music what it is. We make language what it is. I follow the theory of language that states it doesn't matter how a word is spelled, or what it's supposed to mean -- throw the 'dictionary' out the window for all I care, because what matters is what everyone thinks it means. I mean, if you're the only person who thinks classifies a series of bands under a genre, say emo, and no one else really views any of those bands as emo, when you start talking about emo, whoever you're talking to will have a very different perspective of what you're saying [than you] because of his/her definition of "emo." Regardless of the fact that every band you think of as emo, traditionally is emo. Actually, funny that I mention emo, because that's what happened to that definition. Emo of the 80's was quite a different thing than what we think of as emo now. So, when someone mentions "emo" everybody goes "yugh" but in actuality, if that person were talking about what emo is supposed to be then... no one should really think of Dashboard Confessional or ... I can't think of any emo bands right now.
I don't know if any of that made sense, but what I'm trying to say, is music definitions are always changing, and it's interesting to see those changes happen through sources like Last.fm.
And I really enjoy the statistical aspects of Last.fm. And I enjoy how they changed the look. And... yeah I like everything. I already said that.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I've been really happy lately. I've been wondering if this happiness is just preparing me for something haneous(sp?) to happen soon because I don't think I've ever been this happy. I say it nonchalant, but it's a pretty big deal. And yet it's not. Sometimes I get overexcited. Sometimes I feel like I'm just going with the flow of life. Buddhism has been helping me through all areas in my life and I enjoy seeing Buddhist philosophy practiced in places that don't realize they're Buddhist. Though you can just as easily call it "common sense" and in a way that's all Buddhism really is. Very wise common sense.
But everybody has been encouraging me, telling me I "desearve" this happiness. Reminding me some of the shit I've gone through in life and how I've gotten to where I am. I feel good about things. I feel good about myself, about my life. I think it's because I try to be a good person, and strive for the best everyday. I try to help anyone and everyone as much as possible. I try to put myself last. Or at least, in proper place according to who is in need the most.
And Robbie gets home in about 20 minutes....
oh yeah... and I can never get enouhg of this picture. I don't know. I stare at it a lot.