Right on
Thu 19 Aug 2004
From slashdot:
Let the zealots win.
Lets have 15 different proprietary “standards” out there for music. That way if you buy a player from Apple, you buy your music from Apple. If a song you like is only available on some other service, why you buy another player.
I don’t care. I’m through with music. I wont buy any CDs or download any songs.
In my day, it was pretty decent. I could go buy a CD from any store I wanted, and it would work in any of my CD players. Before that was cassette tapes, before that 8-tracks and LPs.
But I don’t care about todays kids. Go let yourself get screwed over by a bunch of corporate assholes. Tell yourselves that the company is some great benevolant force that truly cares about you, if that makes you feel better.
I could give a fuck if iTunes is completely incompatible with Real and every other music service. I could give two shits what kind of DRM Apple or Real or Napster or anyone else want to use. Who gives a shit if you’re allowed to burn it to one CD, or only listen to the song on the third tuesday of every month.
Hey, do it to TV too. I don’t care. When video-on-demand rolls out, make sure each service is compatible only with a suitably branded TV set or cable tuner. Sony Video-on-Demand only works with Sony sets, etc. Ruin TV. See if you can make a buck doing it.
Have your legions of Sony fans go around swearing and acting like idiots if Phillips starts trying to compete.
Not my problem, and I don’t care.
The entire “entertainment” industry can jump up my ass. It bores me. I don’t look to any corporate messiah for my entertainment anymore. Fuck em all, and fuck all their fans and zealots.
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August 26th, 2004 at 8:43 pm
Shall I or shall I not be surprised that you named your website from a Pavement song? It’s actually the song I began my last mixed cd too, made only a few weeks ago.
ps: I encountered your site on Baobhan Sidhe search. Have a very talented musical friend looking to put Blues band together.
Now your challenge is to find my very secret online journal, running for the past 4 years. HAH!
August 27th, 2004 at 11:27 pm
Ha! Trivial, if you’re going to post links to my blog in it…. Of course, since it’s friendslocked, who knows what it actually says in there.
D’oh.
August 28th, 2004 at 7:40 am
Note: the link to your blog was not malicious, rather referring to your comment and link to veryverygay.com - which is run by a friend of mine. My entire universe collided and exploded in my head. I was commenting at how small the internet has actually become, and so she could get a kick out of it.
Oh, and you read your IP logs! Yay you!
Besides, since you have comments inactive AFAIK, I actually wanted to bring your attention to the following, as I thought you would enjoy them: Phoebe Gloeckner part a, Part B and something else.
Things change, y’know.
August 28th, 2004 at 11:22 am
My comments are active, though? At the main blog. You just have to do it anonymously if you aren’t a Blogger user.
I didn’t think the link was malicious — for one thing, if it was, more people would have come via it
But yes, the internet is very very small..
Thanks for the recommendations!
August 28th, 2004 at 1:26 pm
Yes, but I am reading retrospectively. In which comments would have been made, but there are no means. Alas, the snark remains unleashed.
August 29th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Well well, of all the strangeness that’s ever occurred on my blog, I /never/ expected this!
August 29th, 2004 at 6:50 pm
Ah Dan, you need a t-shirt deemed with the appropriate slogan:
“Dan… bringing people together since ‘04″.
I may even pay for the printing of it, when I get my own done:
“Sally… Stalking since ‘76!”
August 29th, 2004 at 6:52 pm
oh and ps - you want a gmail account? They are just giving them away these days. Well, I have free invites, if you don’t mind losing some of your privacy and freedom* that is.
(*loss of privacy and freedom is due to bizarre gmail formula, rather than author’s own malicious intent and needs)
August 30th, 2004 at 2:34 pm
goldsounds@gmail.com
:-D
Matt invited me first - begun these friend wars have.
August 30th, 2004 at 4:09 pm
all I have to say on the matter….
August 30th, 2004 at 4:10 pm
HEY! It didn’t post my picture. Blogger is like the unsophisticated, retarded child of livejournal. Yes, I know it came first, but it has bells and whistles. I like them stuff.
August 30th, 2004 at 8:39 pm
I have re-enabled image tags - but be nice!
August 31st, 2004 at 10:21 am
Damnit. I have the BEST photo of you and Hannah* though. I think you were mid-fight, and it’s almost a paparazzi shot. I have always kept it. It’s just one of those, so bad it’s good photos. Under the terms of “nice” however, it doesn’t qualify.
(*can’t remember if this is right name. The really young one we gave you shit about. No, the other really young one)
You should be a sports coach.
August 31st, 2004 at 2:08 pm
yup.
September 13th, 2004 at 9:50 am
I still have the image of a grinning Sally sitting astride a tree trunk (or something similarly outdoorsy) as part of a CHRISTIAN YOUTH CAMP burned into my skull. I believe you may have been wearing a woolly cardigan. I should have stolen it to use as a bargaining chip in situations like this…
September 16th, 2004 at 3:35 pm
Ah yes, to bring me down you bring out the CHRISTIAN CARD.
I know of no photo. If you can produce it, bring it on. I didn’t find the PRECISE photo I was thinking of, but I did find 1 of several in the series, and of course, the negatives. Can anyone say A0 size! I will blow it up super size and paste it on the synagogue.
The only photo I CAN think of is where I was wearing a bright red LIFE JACKET and was of course outside about to go CANOEING. Which still is a healthy, outdoorsy, clean-living activity, but I tell you, there was no cardigan involved in my love affair with Jesus, and there never was.
and I don’t know where that photo is.
September 17th, 2004 at 11:26 am