It's been a long time

GawtDAMN it's been awhile.

And don't kid yourself, this ain't gon' be funny.

I just realized (again) how much thangs have gone down the shit sink.

Notice how everything's being dumbed down?


Who remembers those zippers that had a special tooth in the back of the slider? If for some reason (ahem) your button popped the fuck off you could always count on that special lick of metal to lock into the zipper. This stopped the slider from slipping down the rest of the clasped teeth, saving you from hours holding your pants up, and claims that it's your new 'thing'.

No more!


I don't see 'em on pants any more.

Notice how much music sucks today?

Yes yes, you had Madonna back in the day, but yo, show me a radio station that'll play Shitney Smears 20 years from now.

Everyone can make music now. The tools are within your grasp if you have a lap top and a few decent programs.

Cool.

Gems pop out of the blue collar demographic, people have more freedom to be creative. But the bar has been lowered when people who can't sing or play an instrument can make millions of dollars while a jazz musician who's dedicated his or her life to the craft has to eat Kraft.


Go to Jello Bar. (that's in Montreal people)

There's a band workin' HARD to make you dance, live and in your face. Next room's a DJ with most of the crowd at his disposal.

Love DJs but dayum...

Technology's made us less human. Back in the day you had to face someone. Now you can email, text message, phone, fax a break up , an argument, a serious discussion.

Of course there are advantages but it weakens our resolve, puts machines between us. We don't have operators anymore we have pre-recorded voices telling us to press buttons.

We're not robots.

Yet.

To quote Michael Franti, stay human.