Friday, December 01, 2006
oh yes. i am finally fucking home, and it is finally fucking friday. profanity is absolutely necessary.
i need to write tonight. i don't want to complain or analyze this time. this week is a bad week for that. i need to shift my momentum a little. the week is over. all that crap, all of what happened at work is done. it is gone, and it doesn't have to drag me into its little funk. i have days to enjoy meself.
i need an idea. i need something new tonight. i want tangents of my own. i want to have to leave things unsaid tonight, because i can't get to everything. this one is going to be a work in progress. i don't wind down quickly, but this is going to be my guide.
i need to find this song. it has been in the back of my mind for two days now. the problem is, i completely forget the artist and the album, and it is on one of my full album trance mp3s. now we only have a hundred or so files to go through. but i love this song. i have to have this song right now. it is time for my brain to make itself useful. i am starting with dave seaman, because he consistantly fills his sets with music that makes some sort of lasting inpact. it is a little ironic that i don't even know the names of some of my favorite songs because i don't have a single album of his that is broken up into individual tracks. the problem we find here is that most of his albums, i have listened too so much that i know every song, and this song isn't one of them. there are maybe three albums of his that i haven't completely absorbed yet. (insert pause as i go look for them). ok i found only two likely candidates. i think it is near the end of the album. if it isn't one of these two, we are back to square one.
look at me, in four mouse clicks, i found it. i clicked on disc 1, clicked to the end, not there. i clicked on disc 2, clicked on the end at 58 minutes, and apparently that is where the song is. i don't know to feel dumb for sharing, or bask in smug satisfaction. you are going to laugh when you hear i don't even have a full copy of the mp3, so the song cuts out halfway through. (insert pause as i go find another download). ok, now i have to wait again. on to something else. that was nothing even remotely creative. that was to make sure i am not suddenly completely retarded. at least i have something to listen too. if everything goes right, the download will be done before the album itself is done, so i can switch over for the last track. a final farewell to an mp3 that has served me well before being replaced by a superior version.
it is amazing what files follow me from computer to computer. i have mp3s i downloaded in 1998, and have copied who knows how many times. crap i downloaded using scour.net on aol dial-up. i probably sat and dreamed about a day when you could download an album in an hour. now you can download tv shows in an hour. i love the internet. it does every thing it can to make the real world obsolete.
what if you had an entire town connected to the internet. what if your server had a three dimensional rendering of your city it used as its operating system. i had a dream about this once, and it has become one of the key facets of frivtown, a city with digital overlays. i am not sure if they were holographic or implanted, but there was another layer that could be added over reality. there was a giant game everyone played, an assassin game. everyone could have weapons on the digital plane, and there were bounties placed on certain people. everyone had shields, so you had to do it without them noticing. but if you got them, they would be sort of electrocuted. the game goes on all the time, so it was fairly ordinary for someone to be taken down in the middle of a presentation at work. but the digital plane was so much more than just the game. the game was just one aspect of it. the entire world seemed more vibrant. there was digital art on the sides of buildings, signage and advertising could float in the air, and most if it was almost neon and transparent. there were fake walls you could walk through.
you know, for this to work, it would almost have to be some sort of implanted technology. it would make so much more sense on the macro scale. we are only a few short steps away from plugging our computers directly into our brains. first it is goggles, then projections into the eye itself, then straight jacks into the brain to simulate sight. in a town networked on this scale, it makes sense that each person would be individually networked as well. and if they are already networked, it is just a simple implant for those who want the functionality. hell, who knows, at that point we all could have our computers implanted into us already, kind of the ultimate evolution of the laptop. all you would have to do is connect to the server, provided you have the proper internal connections.
how would our brains respond to this constant extra stimulus? i am sure some people wouldn't be able handle it, and would just snap and go crazy. certain people however would adapt and thrive. certain people would lose all sense of balance, and live completely in the digital reality, while certain people would completely refuse to use it. i must say, i am not really afraid of the effects of an internal computer. i just wouldn't be able to afford it. once i could, i would be all over it. kind of like vacation trips to the moon. as soon as i can afford it...
this album is beautiful. this is why i love dave seaman. i don't know what it is, but something is different in his music for me. which makes it even more strange, because it isn't actually so much his music. the songs he finds are mind blowing. things i have never heard, but make me instantly wonder "why isn't there more music like this?" and when he does throw in something i know, it is always a song i already borderline worship. sometimes i feel like my entire experience electronic music has led me to his albums. it is what i have refined my electronic tastes too, the absolute upper echelon of my favorite trance. in fact, you might call it my favorite music period. i am oddly comfortable with that statement. it may not be the best music i have, but it is my favorite. it is what my mind craves.
my download isn't going to finish by the end of the album. i am disappointed. i am also very sidetracked at the moment. thinking about what my mind craves has taken over, and i doubt i will be able to focus long enough to keep forming coherent sentances. i will mercifully end this beautiful rambling here.
i need to write tonight. i don't want to complain or analyze this time. this week is a bad week for that. i need to shift my momentum a little. the week is over. all that crap, all of what happened at work is done. it is gone, and it doesn't have to drag me into its little funk. i have days to enjoy meself.
i need an idea. i need something new tonight. i want tangents of my own. i want to have to leave things unsaid tonight, because i can't get to everything. this one is going to be a work in progress. i don't wind down quickly, but this is going to be my guide.
i need to find this song. it has been in the back of my mind for two days now. the problem is, i completely forget the artist and the album, and it is on one of my full album trance mp3s. now we only have a hundred or so files to go through. but i love this song. i have to have this song right now. it is time for my brain to make itself useful. i am starting with dave seaman, because he consistantly fills his sets with music that makes some sort of lasting inpact. it is a little ironic that i don't even know the names of some of my favorite songs because i don't have a single album of his that is broken up into individual tracks. the problem we find here is that most of his albums, i have listened too so much that i know every song, and this song isn't one of them. there are maybe three albums of his that i haven't completely absorbed yet. (insert pause as i go look for them). ok i found only two likely candidates. i think it is near the end of the album. if it isn't one of these two, we are back to square one.
look at me, in four mouse clicks, i found it. i clicked on disc 1, clicked to the end, not there. i clicked on disc 2, clicked on the end at 58 minutes, and apparently that is where the song is. i don't know to feel dumb for sharing, or bask in smug satisfaction. you are going to laugh when you hear i don't even have a full copy of the mp3, so the song cuts out halfway through. (insert pause as i go find another download). ok, now i have to wait again. on to something else. that was nothing even remotely creative. that was to make sure i am not suddenly completely retarded. at least i have something to listen too. if everything goes right, the download will be done before the album itself is done, so i can switch over for the last track. a final farewell to an mp3 that has served me well before being replaced by a superior version.
it is amazing what files follow me from computer to computer. i have mp3s i downloaded in 1998, and have copied who knows how many times. crap i downloaded using scour.net on aol dial-up. i probably sat and dreamed about a day when you could download an album in an hour. now you can download tv shows in an hour. i love the internet. it does every thing it can to make the real world obsolete.
what if you had an entire town connected to the internet. what if your server had a three dimensional rendering of your city it used as its operating system. i had a dream about this once, and it has become one of the key facets of frivtown, a city with digital overlays. i am not sure if they were holographic or implanted, but there was another layer that could be added over reality. there was a giant game everyone played, an assassin game. everyone could have weapons on the digital plane, and there were bounties placed on certain people. everyone had shields, so you had to do it without them noticing. but if you got them, they would be sort of electrocuted. the game goes on all the time, so it was fairly ordinary for someone to be taken down in the middle of a presentation at work. but the digital plane was so much more than just the game. the game was just one aspect of it. the entire world seemed more vibrant. there was digital art on the sides of buildings, signage and advertising could float in the air, and most if it was almost neon and transparent. there were fake walls you could walk through.
you know, for this to work, it would almost have to be some sort of implanted technology. it would make so much more sense on the macro scale. we are only a few short steps away from plugging our computers directly into our brains. first it is goggles, then projections into the eye itself, then straight jacks into the brain to simulate sight. in a town networked on this scale, it makes sense that each person would be individually networked as well. and if they are already networked, it is just a simple implant for those who want the functionality. hell, who knows, at that point we all could have our computers implanted into us already, kind of the ultimate evolution of the laptop. all you would have to do is connect to the server, provided you have the proper internal connections.
how would our brains respond to this constant extra stimulus? i am sure some people wouldn't be able handle it, and would just snap and go crazy. certain people however would adapt and thrive. certain people would lose all sense of balance, and live completely in the digital reality, while certain people would completely refuse to use it. i must say, i am not really afraid of the effects of an internal computer. i just wouldn't be able to afford it. once i could, i would be all over it. kind of like vacation trips to the moon. as soon as i can afford it...
this album is beautiful. this is why i love dave seaman. i don't know what it is, but something is different in his music for me. which makes it even more strange, because it isn't actually so much his music. the songs he finds are mind blowing. things i have never heard, but make me instantly wonder "why isn't there more music like this?" and when he does throw in something i know, it is always a song i already borderline worship. sometimes i feel like my entire experience electronic music has led me to his albums. it is what i have refined my electronic tastes too, the absolute upper echelon of my favorite trance. in fact, you might call it my favorite music period. i am oddly comfortable with that statement. it may not be the best music i have, but it is my favorite. it is what my mind craves.
my download isn't going to finish by the end of the album. i am disappointed. i am also very sidetracked at the moment. thinking about what my mind craves has taken over, and i doubt i will be able to focus long enough to keep forming coherent sentances. i will mercifully end this beautiful rambling here.
