What I Thunk
What if I just told you what I thunk
Didn't hide behind the lies and all the junk
That unfiltered flow covered all my pages
And my minds agony burst out in rages
Would you listen?
Would you run?
Would you show me how it's done?
When you watch my soul come undone, unspun, in public, in the sun?
How fruitless is this earth
When sterility is our girth
And senility is our plight
As we look into the long dark night
I'm enraged and disengaged as I age inside my cage
As the sands of time flow faster
I race towards my Master
My Muse
My Light
The Source of my delight
The One who always knows
All those things I don't disclose
To all the yo's and the swine
Who take my pearls and whine
Then plot and design
To silence my divine
Energy | Karma
It's my life, my Dharma
That they be hatin'
So they waitin'
Till I slip up
Then they be wastin'
Me if they can
Or a friend I call "my man"
That's the plan
And as it stands
I don't think I'll ever get out of this place alive
Will you?
So while I'm here
I'm gonna give it
Gonna be sincere
Gonna live it
Stop hidin' my light
'neath that bushel
Not tryin' to push y'all
Just remindin'
That those earthly lights may be blindin'
But they neva can compare
To those lights in the air
Those heavenly hosts
Be aware
They there
Ain't goin' no where
Till the new day comes to wipe it all clean
Know what I mean?
Look, I'm not tryin' to be apocolyptic
But let's just say,
It's hard not to get cryptic
When we lookin' at that crazy shit on the screen
While we hear
Playing in our heads
"Life is but a dream"
Or an illusion
What is it?
I don't know
But I won't dis it
I'll just kiss it
Don't wanna miss it
This may be our only chance
To bliss it
Who Said Pigs Don’t Fly
I know I said I hated facebook, but I'm really impressed with how it has become such a good place to share things with friends and family. They have made the privacy controls a lot better and a lot easier to use, and there just isn't the spam or noise that there are on other sites like myspace or twitter.
That said, when I started using facebook there weren't that many Americans on it, so not many people that I knew before moving to Canada. Now there are tons, including a lot of people I haven't seen or talked to in years. Talking to them has brought back a lot of memory and emotion, which inspired me to put this up.
To all of my friends and family who live far away, or for whatever reason I don't get to see or talk to as often as I wish I could, I just wanted to say I miss you, I love you... I remember you and think about you all of the time.
I Lika the Musique
So I just learned a really cool way to share music from Tara Busch, whom I met I recently on Twitter. It's called SoundCloud, and I like it because I've wanted to push more content from my own site instead of referring people to other sites such as Myspace. Like clips uploaded to YouTube, you can embed the track in a webpage with HTML. Really cool... so without further ado, here you go...
Let’s Go to the Allosphere
A bit speechless (or would the textual equivalent be textless) after watching this video. Using visual art to represent scientific data has been going on for a while, but to make it completely immersive and add the audio dimension completely blows my mind. This may be the kind of breakthrough we need to start really getting a grip on extremely complex systems like human cognition and quantum mechanics.
Why Radiohead is Cool
If you didn't already know, Radiohead released their seventh album, "In Rainbows" a few weeks ago.
Now, they are probably my favourite contemporary band, but I had no idea that they had released an album, partly because when I'm working I have no time to do anything else, and partly because of the way that they did it.
As if being a great band that makes awesome music isn't enough, they are so far ahead of the game it makes me green with envy.
Maybe a few other bands that nobody has ever heard of have released an album from their own website available for download, but nobody with a name as big as Radiohead has done it, until now. And they gave no warning, no advertising, no nothing. They just posted it one day. The internet community spread the word from there.
The craziest part? Well, technically, it is free. I mean, yeah, like you don't have to pay any money for it. You can go there right now to radiohead.com and download it. They ask you for a donation, which I gladly gave them, but it isn't mandatory. If you're totally broke but have an internet connection you can download it for free. From what I understand there is no DRM either so you can have your buddy download it and make a copy for you. Unbelievably you can do this without breaking the law! This just wants to make me cheer and scream and shout because I think it is so cool and it is so against the mainstream of media distribution.
I guess the band is in talks now with different labels to distribute physical copies through the old record store medium, but you can still buy a special collector's set on the site as well. They decided on this strategy since they didn't have a label anymore, they finished their contract with EMI with "Hail to the Thief".
I personally think that record companies should die, and soon. More music should be distributed this way. The artists get all the money, none of it skimmed off by the middlemen. Do I think that things will actually go this way? Probably not. At least not anytime soon.
