I did a gig last Friday at a weed shop, that was cool enough. Now I'm on my PC today typing about it a bit here lol smfh.
fun performance
age peers
tips
drinks
accolades
that was then
this is now
foggy
groggy
digestive ambiguity
grasping at selfhood
random urls
may this
soon
be
over
I did a gig last Friday at a weed shop, that was cool enough. Now I'm on my PC today typing about it a bit here lol smfh.
"We now return to the part of The Internet Story(TM) where Inquiry re-re-realizes that yes, live music and human interaction is, indeed, more pleasurable and fulfilling than URL linking and opinionated correspondences"
Hope you're good, Inquiry! :)
> "We now return to the part of The > Internet Story(TM) where Inquiry > re-re-realizes that yes, live music > and human interaction is, indeed, > more pleasurable and fulfilling > than URL linking and opinionated > correspondences"
<lies pouty face down to kick and scream a bit>
But that's not how I want(ed) it to be!!!! :-)
Seriously. I simply wanted simple to be good. And what could be simpler than reducing reality down to the size of a screen seemingly infinitely deep in content? Add a keyboard and maybe a touch-sensitive device, the manipulation of which somewhat governs what appears on the screen. Still simple. Too simple for something to go wrong, to bow the Murphyric knee as it were. You think. Or I would. Or did. With the highest of ongoing hopes.
But, no. "F" no. Insufficiently biological. Illusory content depth. Same shit, different URL. Lucre-driven search result bubbles. Trying so hard to pretend narcissism is the same as community. All that link rot, and so much less....
> Hope you're good, Inquiry! :)
Better than the above sounds. :-)
Yes, simpler/easier IS better, sometimes. It drove me to the long-standing conclusion that technology (in general - especially consumer tech) is running in direct opposition to Nature, itself. I mean, everything is a PART of nature, but in regards to biological interaction with (consumer) tech, it doesn't "scratch the itch" we think it will, or thought it would. I just sort of compartmentalize things (now I do, I used to try to make tech or/and the WWW a "part" of what I do in life, in the world (e.g. the AFK (Away From Keyboard) language, and whatnot), but now I realize that if I want "THIS" thing, I have to just go DO "THIS" thing, and not try to make someone else what it is not.
Sorry if some of that sounds obscure, but it's the best I would describe the scenario.
Glad to hear you're doing better than the above sounds. Later!
I was never in to the local band scene, despite living in a city that was full of them. It seemed like you just go to a pub on a Friday night, listen to what was going on, and bristle up against the true fans who have been religiously following the band for several years. The band would have a facebook page or a random url scribbled above a urinal.
Basically, I found the whole thing fun as an outsider, stumbling from pub to pub, but really damn hard to get into as a regular follower because of how much it relied on the internet for promotion. That being said, I've never seen a band live due to word of mouth, so I guess internet is the best option for this kind of thing.
I've come from 1973 to deliver this message: I'm jittery from too much coffee this morning.