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msb-0296 I Loathe This Video

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msb-0296 I Loathe This Video

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Intro

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I loathe the piece of crap video at the front of this post on my blog and podcast.

Its the sort of over produced, over processed, over made-up over the top kind of video that's made to hypnotize you while shutting you up.

It leaves you wanting for some sustenance after you've watched it.

Its all "glamour" and glitz, in the darkest, cruelest, most debased and demeaning sense of the word "glamour".

"Glamour" as used by those who fancy themselves as fairies and elves, and politicians, to deceive and to lie, to distract while they sharpen their knives.

Painted-on faces atop painted-on bodies wearing painted-on outfits and painted-on expressions, gyrating to some meaningless beat; rhythmically pounding its empty noise, promising its empty pleasure.

It stands for everything I "hate" about the industry. (I can't honestly call it the music industry.)

Its porn for the ears.

Actually, its not even that. If you just listen to it without the video and you suddenly hear a trite, innocuous, bland, very "little" pop tune, without any redeeming value.

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On a positive "non bitchy" note, I'm finding a lot to like about twitter. (I'd be more reassured if it didn't go down like like a two dollar ... , (uh no, that's not an analogy I'd care to defend. :-)

On a different note, they've been re-paving the road in front of the building.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!" Every freakin' time one of these machines backs up. And they're everywhere. Its a cacophonous mess. How are you supposed to know if something's bearing down on you or it the fries are done?

Recording the shows has been well nigh impossible when the sun's out.

I never had to listen to this crap when I was a kid.

Back then, I watched them build my suburb and the only sound was the thrum of diesel engines.

Okay they were sometimes punctuated by occasional howls of agony and/or an odd note in the grinding noise of the machinery.

But you renamed the street and moved on over the anthropic outline. (On the bigger roads, it was a stretch of highway renamed, say, the "Jimmie Hoffa Memorial Mile," and you got over it. [It saved a bunch on funeral expenses; you bet'cha. :-])

---- "videogamez" by: "deceptakahn" http://deceptakahn.com/

FeedForward

Here you are.

Further proof [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04insure.html ] from the field, as if any was needed, that the health care system is badly broken. (Systemantically, [ http://generalsystemantics.com/Systemantics.htm ] it has reached the point where it begins to oppose its own stated function. [The only thing left to do is to stick a fork in it, 'cause its done.])

---- "Video Virus" by: "Nalts" http://www.willvideoforfood.com/

FeedMe

---- "Videology" by: "The Digital Motion" http://www.download.com/digitalmotion

Thesis:

Before I get chastised for seemingly abandoning MS in my quest for world domination or some such grandiose scheme, let me say that while I have MS, I do not let it limit my perceptions (an ironic twist of both fate and words,) nor do I let it limit my ambitions. (Perhaps the triumph of optimism in the face of adversity.)

---- "Videotape" by: "the priddle concern" http://thepriddleconcern.com/

Synthesis:

Its indeed unfortunate that I got MS. (Hell I might say its tragic that I have this disease.)

But that's life; which is made up of the crap that splashes onto you while you go from being a cute, lovable infant (okay some have faces that only their mothers can love,) to a wizened old coot.

Its certainly unfortunate that I am unable to pursue the possibilities of podcasting with the bloody mindedness and vigor that I have brought to other things, other pursuits in my life.

I have always been fair, often been wise and never been somebody you'd want to screw with. (Its not that I'm physically imposing, its that I'll drive you to distraction while I drive straight to my goal. [I'm "not" one of those people who believe that "its not enough for me to win, you've got to know you've lost." {Frankly, I don't care if we "both" win, as long as "I get a prize." (Anything else is a waste of my time, [and time is the rarest and most valuable resource there is.])}])

---- "Masks videomix" by: "Adhesion" http://evilresidence.com/adhesion

Conclusion:

While I have MS, it doesn't have me.

I am still the driven, some would say megalomaniacal, character that I have always been.

I was, am and will remain true to the "Toto La Terreur" persona I had as a three-year old.

I have "always" been more than a little nuts and I'm not letting MS spoil that for me.

Now enough techno, indie stuff, I wanna kick this up a notch and listen to a Canadian band while I knock off and have a beer.

---- "Beta Video Tape Head" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada

Outro

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