Rearrange words into : A Answered Ring Rotor

I think I am going to rearrange my basement today. Like, make it more applicable to making music. Lately I've been impeded by the lack of ease making music brings me. I have to walk across the room back and forth between the computer and my instruments. So that will be my project today. Just in case you were wondering.

MOS DEFinitely risky

This post is about this: http://thepiratesdilemma.com/punk-capitalism/mos-def-launches-album-on-t-shirt

The blurb: Mos Def is releasing his latest album through a t-shirt, buy the shirt, get the album.

The front is the cover artwork, and the back has the track listing, the tag has a download link to get the songs. Is this a brilliant move or just some clever antics to make a point. I'd say a bit of both. Ever since Radiohead released In Rainbows as pay as you want, artists have been looking for a way to connect with the modern world of distribution. Nine Inch Nails had their Ghosts album released through the Internet with a huge turnout. Danger Mouse just recently sold blank CD's with the text: 'For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.' Now Mos Def has taken his (or his publicist's) approach to creative releases.

From what I get, it is making a point to the music industry who's idea of combating losses in CD sales is to sell more t-shirts. And when t-shirts cost at least twice that of the CD, sure, that's a good business model. But what about the fans that have to fork out $50 to get a CD and a t-shirt? Is that fair to them? Hardly. I'd say that instead of worrying about losses in CD sales due to pirating music, worry about making the artists happy and giving the customer what they want. I know I would want a T-shirt that is a statement, and Mos Def is definitely making a statement here. Well done.

In the eye of the beholder, holy crap it's a beholder, RUN! ARgh it's killing me with it's eye! NOOOoooo.....

I just heard a guy say "yeah, I was at home and took a picture of my silverware, sold it for a million." He was referring to a picture on the wall that is a dining room set. It is black and white and in my opinion really, cool. But that's because I'd say I respect the things that go into a picture. Then I started to think about if some people use art as an outlet or just a means to make money. If you could sell something you made for 1,000 dollars would you? Probably, right? But what if it took you a day to make and you could make the art everyday for the rest of your life? Then you are "selling out" in my opinion. But a lot of people do that. They take pictures everyday and if they end up with one that they can reprint and sell, they have a living. I think, at least in our times, the ability to take a picture and sell it are phenomenally high. I can take 1,000 pictures and have them on the internet the same day. Out of 1k pictures, there just has to be one or two for me to recoup the cost to charge my battery and the time it took to shoot. It seems kind of unfair to the photographers of old who dedicated their lives to learning all the finer points of development and the physical work needed to make a picture. But it's still art. It hasn't changed the quality per say, just the amount, and as a result of that, the noise and signal ratio. Of course, there is the limiting factor in price of high quality equipment to take the pictures. I don't have a very expensive camera and so I am limited to taking close range shots and so if you put the money in, you have an advantage. But even that is shrinking with cheaper digital SLR cameras. Camera phones are starting to be higher quality than digital cameras were four years ago. So, can we say that the picture you took isn't art if you didn't pay big for a camera? No, of course not. But there is already so much extra fluff out there that I feel the professionals are loosing their foothold in photo publishing.

If I have no time to kill, I don't kill my wallet

So I've been busy recently, as my parents put it work hard, play hard. Except that I do them on the same day. Whatever, it works out. But one of the things I usually spend my time killing is researching things that I want to buy. I really want to buy a lot of musical things right now, and the only reason I'm not is because I don't have the time to find what is the best. I fell in love with this (http://tinyvid.tv/show/t5v1inpguy9t) song/artist yesterday and I can't imagine how fun it would be to use a loop pedal to make music. I also want a sampler to make more electronic music. It kinda tough right now because the music I want to make is stuck between folk/acoustic and electronic/dance. They are kind of on two sides of the spectrum so yeah. But the keyboard I bought from woot has been wonderful so far, even being used live to play kids by MGMT. So I am torn to what I should buy next. This is why I shouldn't get paychecks or get statements saying "hey, here's some money."

The singer is a crook

So, I had one of the best lunches today. I got the Mongolian grill special today and it was sooo tasty. Pea pods, onions, mushrooms, peppers, and chicken all sauteed together and a szechuan sauce on top. It was spicy but I like spice so it was good. I read Catch-22 while eating too so it was fun. I kinda decided that I am going to read Catcher in the Rye after Tasha recommended it and I went looking for it this morning to see if my family owns it and my dad said it was a good book as well. But it's in storage somewhere, so I'll have to go digging or something.

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Just got back from a talk they put on for the interns and it was quite boring. I was trying my best to stay awake and I did a good job compared to like 4 other people. The guy next to me was doing the classic head twitch and he was getting like 4 inch twitches off, impressive. But I realized that I'm having a pretty great day today. Work isn't anything interesting and being difficult, but whatever. Tomorrow I'm going to get a bonfire set up with friends and we will cook hotdogs and it will be great. Then on Saturday I'm going to Rock the Garden with Meghan and that will be an amazing time. Freaking Solid Gold, Yeasayer, Colexico, and the Decemberists. So great.

I also started making mixes for people in my head and can't wait to put them into a huge overachiever project that probably won't amount to what I want. But it will be quite grand.

Anyways, back to work.

People won't be people when they hear this sound

Did you know that the stream of water from water fountains is actually two streams of water that join together into one? This helps get the height, distance, and quanity of water that most people expect. It's really quite an interesting system if you think about it.

Anyways, I don't even know what to write about today. My stomache hurts, my neck hurts, my head hurts, and my mind hurts. I want to goto sleep. Maybe I'll just take off early from work. Maybe I'll turn this into a rambling affair. I need to go to the bank to put money into my account. I also want to goto borders books and get cheap CDs. I also want to play loud music in my basement. I want to go on a bike ride. I want to play frisbee. I want to get more clothes. I want to goto a coffee shop. I want to read more. I started reading catch-22 today at lunch. It is so good. I kinda want a haircut. Not a cut so much as a trim. I want to watch bad action movies in my basement. I want to do a lot of things that are easily chosen to be done with people. And I kinda want to do them with myself or maybe one or two people that would make it more enjoyable. Lately I've not wanted to hang out in large(r) groups. Heck, I've not really wanted to hang out in groups at all. It's hard to avoid people though. Is goto really not a word? Is it go to? I get that alot is a lot, but goto should totally be a word. Silly spell check.

I (dis)like that the people I talk about read this. Yah, you.

I also have a new place for winking. Right between legs and short hair on my angry list. Yah, you.

Just a sec more in my bed...

I think I need to stop staying up so late and actually wake up with time to get ready in the morning. I kinda just laid in my bed until I had just enough time to get to work at nine. And because of that I am tired at work and actually took a 10 minute nap outside, it was nice. Do you ever catch yourself giving really strong twitches when your on the verge of falling asleep? Cause I did and I thought I probably looked really strange.

So I have this idea for some night that I have friends over. Creative night. If you come, you have to be creative in some way, whether it is playing music, painting something, or writing something. You need to do something. The other night, Tasha and I made T-Shirts and it was a lot of fun because I just wanted to make something. There have been nights when I will play on my new keyboard and just make basic music, but it is so much fun. I think that as a group we could do something fun and exciting for all of us. It also doesn't have to be inside. We could get a bucket of chalk and go write on a sidewalk somewhere.

Let's do this.