This title seems fitting because I’ve been reflecting a lot on lately on “my past life” if you will. Life before I started going to Ithaca college, or even life as a “lowly freshman”. This time last year the high point of my life was telling my neighbor’s girlfriend that she sounded like the demon from the movie paranormal activity when they went at in bed ( I still have nightmares about that movie...and that sound). This title is also fitting because now, I’m going to concerts such as Phoenix at Cornell.
Phoenix was unknown to me until this summer...then again a lot of the music I like now was unknown me previous to this summer. As many of you who read this know, I went to Lollapalooza this summer and it pretty much changed my life. Not in the “oh my god I’m going to be a musician cause I totally can play my acoustic guitar while doing covers of bob dylan in your local starbucks” way, but in the helping me to define who and what I am, as well as what I like to do. Phoenix which had been new to me then seemed like an old friend at this point.
It was a night out with friends, friends who I had not seen much lately, save the exception of one who insists on being more my frenemy than my actual friend (even though she is in my list of favorite contacts on my phone). I had been thinking lately what life had been like before I knew them, how things had changed since meeting them, and how hot the opening act was...the last part isn’t a kodak moment, but it needed to be said.
So may there be many more nights of almost having a seizure from the light show filled with the companionship of friends such as yourselves. As for Phoenix, keep stringing together random english words to make songs it’s really awesome. Oh also buy yourself an english dictionary and look up the definition of the word “last song”, not that I’m complaining. Also thank you for putting on the best show I've seen since Lollapalooza itself.
Until next time,
I’m just your friendly neighborhood bloggerman
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
I hate it
Recently on Facebook I noticed a bunch of statuses like “ I like it on the kitchen table”. Wondering what this is about, I asked a few friends until I finally got an answer. It was in response to the question “Where do you like to leave your handbag when you get home”. When I asked a few friends who actually made it their status if they knew why they were responding to that question or where it came from, they had no clue.
Eventually, I did my own research and found out that it was a movement started to raise breast cancer awareness. Great cause , except one problem. If no one participating it even knows what the cause is about, how exactly does it help raise awareness? Most people are only making it their statuses because they can’t dare be out of the loop.
I have said this before and I will likely say it again, taking action on Facebook for a cause rarely accomplishes anything. All it really accomplishes is giving you a false sense of accomplishment. Joining one of those groups where they say they will donate x amount of money for everyone who joins is 99 % of the time totally bogus.
In general, I’m fascinated by how blindly people follow trends these days. It makes me worried that if the wrong thing were to become trendy, suddenly people could be supporting causes that would result in bad consequences. I am not saying I am guilt free either, because I was morbidly curious myself as to why this was so many peoples' facebook statuses.
Maybe it’s because I recently saw the movie The Social Network (which was amazing by the way), but the powers of social networking on the internet never cease to amaze me. Our generation updates each other about what we ate for breakfast via tweet (who cares if I had fruit loops for breakfast), what we did last weekend with pictures on facebook, and just about every detail you could want to know (or not know) about the person’s life. We all feel the need to constantly share our thoughts, which I realize I am just propagating by having a blog...but sue me.
Basically my recommendation is we should start putting more thought into these things, instead of just following the trends. But then I doubt that will ever happen, so in the meantime I will be looking for an application for a job to a social networking site. The matrix is slowly becoming a reality, our lives slowly becoming dictated by computers. I know, the former computer nerd (or current depending on how you look at it) is making this comment on his blog, again I’m a hypocrite.
Until next time,
I’m just your hypocritical neighborhood bloggerman
Eventually, I did my own research and found out that it was a movement started to raise breast cancer awareness. Great cause , except one problem. If no one participating it even knows what the cause is about, how exactly does it help raise awareness? Most people are only making it their statuses because they can’t dare be out of the loop.
I have said this before and I will likely say it again, taking action on Facebook for a cause rarely accomplishes anything. All it really accomplishes is giving you a false sense of accomplishment. Joining one of those groups where they say they will donate x amount of money for everyone who joins is 99 % of the time totally bogus.
In general, I’m fascinated by how blindly people follow trends these days. It makes me worried that if the wrong thing were to become trendy, suddenly people could be supporting causes that would result in bad consequences. I am not saying I am guilt free either, because I was morbidly curious myself as to why this was so many peoples' facebook statuses.
Maybe it’s because I recently saw the movie The Social Network (which was amazing by the way), but the powers of social networking on the internet never cease to amaze me. Our generation updates each other about what we ate for breakfast via tweet (who cares if I had fruit loops for breakfast), what we did last weekend with pictures on facebook, and just about every detail you could want to know (or not know) about the person’s life. We all feel the need to constantly share our thoughts, which I realize I am just propagating by having a blog...but sue me.
Basically my recommendation is we should start putting more thought into these things, instead of just following the trends. But then I doubt that will ever happen, so in the meantime I will be looking for an application for a job to a social networking site. The matrix is slowly becoming a reality, our lives slowly becoming dictated by computers. I know, the former computer nerd (or current depending on how you look at it) is making this comment on his blog, again I’m a hypocrite.
Until next time,
I’m just your hypocritical neighborhood bloggerman
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