Alrighty right just trying to keep my damn blog updated here.
A lot of the cool young kids have blogs these days where they review the latest music and stuff, whereas you know me, I just complain about how depressed I am.
It’s very much winter here in New Zealand and all little Romantech’s are huddled up in their caves, squirreling away on those beats and other delights and treats.
And by delights and treats I mean strictly business. Not very romantic, I know. But dreams cost money, baby. And just to assure you, I have plenty of goodies in the pipes. After having been on the block for a while y’know there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t really seem like a big deal any more, I just want to put out some decent music.
Y’know it’s all about the art. I’m not saying getting in a cool magazine isn’t art, or part of what makes an artist an artist it’s just y’know what’s the upshot?
Personally, I want to be in contact with the art of it, rather than a means to a goal which makes the art of it um, y’know just making shit or being something you do just to impress girls or get people to like you or anything like that.
if I was still making beats to impress girls, be liked, get recognition, I would’ve given up. I write because I’m finally getting good at it, and everything else is an extension of me expressing my art.
Y’know, like this blog, that’s why I don’t promote it, and nobody is supposed to actually be reading it. Well, y’know, I don’t write to be read, I write it to express art.
Or I dunno, to aif the process by which my ideas, thoughts and actions lead to expression as art.
And I don’t know how cool that is but whatever.
I couldn’t believe I was bummed out by Micheal Jackson dying, I can’t think I’ve ever been bummed out by something heppening like that. To me, especially from reading comments, it was really about someone who was such a significant part of the 80’s and such a huge phenomenon suddenly coming to a close, and you are faced with a pretty significant symbol that those days are truly gone.
It was also because his music was so universal and there will never be a time when one individual artist will dominate like he did in the mid 80’s. On a musical tip, really he was an amazing artist but I think you have to recognise what Quincy Jones did with the incredibly tight production on his MJ albums.
I was actually always a fan of “Off The Wall” and of course Jackson 5 stuff is quite cool. In fact, you’ll hear a Jackson 5 sample in one of my early tunes “Innocence” it’s the actually half decent electro breaks tune I put out a few years back. I think I’ll have to revisit that, I just got y’know, about 100 old songs floating around out there from earlier in the piece that I’ll have to archive up somehow.
One day, I guess.
One day I’ll drop dead like Micheal Jackson so while it’s all very nice to have kewl blog, and lot of money from my businesses, it’d be good to think I got more of my music and more of my artistic vibe online before then.
I remember the time . . . on the new millenium somehow I ended up losing all my drugs (get this, because I wanted to and my friends. I passed out in a bush in Basque park. Sometime after 12 I remember dancing to “Remember the time” in the domain as tens of thousands of people left following the big countdown.
I’ve thought about that time a lot in the last few days, like it was something of a metaphor for my life, yet another time I just ended up doing my own thing because I felt like it, maybe it wasn’t the smartest idea or the most glorious of outcomes but it was what I felt like I wanted to do, so I did it.
