My poor neglected blog

There’s my silly new avatar. Gravatar, rather? Yay. Weird.

I have too many social networking commitments out there. But they’re finding their place. Sadly, this particular little armpit of my interests isn’t really getting much attention, but I never really intended it to be that way anyway.

Let’s see: Here I randomly post things, that have little to do with me or what I do, but sometimes happen to be. There are known knowns, and unknown unknown knowns… etc

Then there’s my Tumblr. Which seems like an unnecessary blog meets twitter thing, but I like it because I just have to click an applet to post things. No copy + paste for Twitter. That works.

Next, my Kontainer. This is mostly semi-personal, in-motion type of content that I’ll just post randomly. Pictures/videos from places. Jesus could I be any more nondescript about it? Yea it’s a cool idea though, and I hope to do more of it. It’ll basically be all the video stuff I don’t want to dirty my precious YouTube channel with, since it’s so goddamned cherished.

Of course: my Twitter. Even more random. But connecting the world through opinions, articles and redundant posts from the other sites you already follow me on. THAT YOU ALREADY FOLLOW ME ON.

YouTube.

The Play Zappa YouTube Project (still a zygote)

My ever present Facebook page. This you need to ‘liiiike’, as I’m pretty consistent over there. I haven’t really made an effort to funnel people there yet, but… it exists. And it’s basically the hairy drain that aggregates all the rest of this. OK, not really. Just my music/creative mutation stuff. But don’t friend my personal FB page, I hate ignoring requests and feel a touch douchey but I keep that to just people I know now within a personal or professional capacity. “It’s not you, it’s me…“

Reverb nation: here. I will keep this updated. Along with SoundCloud… which is not updated at present. I, of course, have an atrophied Myspace page, but you know what? I’m not ready to let go. It’s just not updated.

Whew. Feels good to get that off my chest.

In other news, the good sir Mr. Chris Stambaugh has informed me that my bridge has came in:

Very good. Progress is earned through painfully persistant patience.

What else… yes. I haven’t done an 8-Bit remix in a while. I fear that I’ll begin to start bleeding subscribers soon. No, not yet. I have ATTN #5 about 67% there. Along with a few others. They’ll start dropping once I begin uploading bass videos again. Or not. We’ll see.

Oh sweet Netflix. What wondrously depressing documentary on how the US is fucking the world do you have for my viewing pleasure this evening? The Age of Stupid? Very good.

Bye.

Filed under: Instruments, People

Mainstream news is a joke – on us. [rant]

I cannot fucking stand what news media has become. Infotainment is too kind of a word. It’s an absolute joke; a paltry, watered-down, sweetened mix of daily excrement that pulls for ratings and advertisers.  I mean – don’t get me wrong – this is how it’s been for.. EVER.. but it just seems like it’s getting worse with the constant availability of media online.

Entertainment news should NEVER appear with real news. And by real, I mean the ‘lite’ version of real news. Things like death tolls and economic reports should NEVER grace the same headlines with fucking Miley Cyrus. Or Miley fucking Cyrus. Miley Cyrus. A fucking teeny bopper who happens to be fucking other people now that her vagina has seen some road time. And this is news-worthy? CNN [and others] print this along with a ‘mass grave of tourists in Mexico’? How disgusting. Absolutely laughable. Why the fuck do we need  to know about Portia de Rossi? Who the fuck is that? CNN should just invert what’s left of their journalistic scrotum and feature the Situation as a correspondent. You can only go down from here.

I hate what mainstream journalism has become. It’s a grotesque stump of the principles it’s supposed to embody. The best I’ve seen among the heap of shit is Rachel Maddow. Within the mainstream, but outside of ‘straight news’, is of course – the Daily Show. How sad is it that a “comedy show” produces the best presidential interview this side of Cronkite?

Outside of ‘mainstream’, there is then the Young Turks. Cenk Uygur is the most reasonable man in America, and it shows. This motherfucker keeps it real, tells you like it is and acknowledges any and all bias he has towards a story. But he sticks to the facts, whichever way they lean and – goddamn – it’s refreshing. No wonder he’s potentially looking at his own show on MSNBC.

Finally, there’s Wikileaks. This is the final bastion for real journalism. Raw, untempered, ugly fuckin information on some shit the blissful would rather stay ignorant of. Bullet holes in an Iraqi 7-year olds head? No, those were drill holes from a torture session. This and thousands of other instances of atrocities and war crimes. Yet we have to stomach the disgusting inclusion of Miley fucking Cyrus in “real” news. Fuck you, mainstream media. I know all the cool kids like Palin & Co. talk a storm of smack on ‘the media’, but holy goddamn if it isn’t for all the wrong reasons.

But Wikileaks – you can tell they’re doing something right when they’re under such scrutiny and intimidation. I get it – it’s an ugly fucking truth, and it’s no wonder that the military doesn’t gleefully release the daily reports of the murder of innocent civilians, and the systematic torture of Iraqi’s by their corrupt police force. But we deserve to know the truth, as long as we’re footing the bill. Where are the fiscal and ‘moral’ conservatives in light of this quagmire to the tune of how many hundreds of billions of dollars and American lives lost (nevermind the hundreds of thousands of civilians – but that number holds a fraction of the value to them)? Oh right, they’re waving their fucking flags and wallowing in their childish nationalism.

Rant is coming to an end. We need Wikileaks to keep these motherfucker’s feet to the fire. This is the last stand for journalism, and I’m absolutely terrified to see what potential truths they unleash next. After reading through some of the horrific details from our current war, and seeing some excellent documentaries on the hidden atrocities – I don’t know how much longer I can stomach paying taxes in this country. I’m paying for this shit – and so are you. We’re contributing to the machine, and while I don’t think it helps to just abandon this great American experiment – we sure as hell are not obligated to keep paying for this war.

Filed under: Journalism, People, Television, mainstream news is a joke

From Poland with love

(ffs, why does WordPress have such a shit html embed disability?! –> here’s the link http://www.vbs.tv/watch/from-poland-with-love/from-poland-with-love-full-length )

““From Poland With Love” follows two characters, Ivar and Julita as they search Poland to find the most fascinating, exciting and underexposed aspects of the country. Over seven episodes, our protagonists travel the country on a mission to track down the best bands, artists, directors, places, people, parties and of course the best bars Poland has to offer. Along the way, they learn about everything from the Polish solidarity movement that hastened the fall of the USSR to goth raves, Polish punk, real wodka and Julita’s gran’s secret recipe for pickled herring.

See the rest at VBS.TV: From Poland with Love – Full Length – From Poland With Love | VBS.TV “

Filed under: Journalism, People, Travel, From Poland with love, vbs.tv