Re: OT rant from hell (was: AirFX)

[KB305@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/30/2000 6:16:35 PM Central Standard Time, 
rich@nuvision.com writes:


> so, the question is:  how do you reconcile being a technology junkie 
> that's having this nagging feeling in your gut that something is VERY 
> wrong?
> 
> 

My answer:
be very careful about what goes in my eyes, ears, etc.
I believe that everything I listen to seriously will show up sooner or 
later 
in my music.

turn off the fucking TV
stay out of MARS or Guitar Center
don't read Rolling Stone or Billboard
(read Rumi, or The Advancing Guitarist, or something else, for chrissakes)
drive less
walk more
don't eat at McDonald's... fast food probably contains subtle 
benzodiazapines 
in it, they make you lazy and placid and willing to accept the Back Street 
Boys

go placidly amid the noise and haste, etc.

and practice a lot.

All the artists I really admire and have respect for: they don't swim in 
the 
same pool as most everyone else.  

Besides creating music, I create the world I want to live in.  (I've never 
lived in SoCal, so I don't know how hard that is.)  From there, I can 
create 
safely.  And that nagging feeling, I can channel back into my work if I 
want.

about my equipment fetish: Tools are tools.  People are people.  

fuck it, I'm gonna go practice...

k