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October 12, 2009, 3:29pm; Comments | Tags: nt VROOM VROOM

Your Own Way

(taken from LifeDrive)

It’s really nice to have something where you can vent your anger, think about things, work stuff out…  For instance, I usually think things over or vent my anger on the hobby I like to do the most: Driving. Sadly I don’t have a car and fuel prices are shooting up so I have to resort to technology for that. I do have another hobby which is remote control modification but it’s such a big task to complete one modification that it leaves me no time for my studies. Which mean I can only do that hobby during vacations. Happily, I do play games but not that immersed because most of the games released nowadays are not my type. I only like simulations and the most recent simulation game I can play, related to my hobby of driving, was Gran Turismo for PSP. I do have a PSP and with a couple of software tweaks, I was able to get this game. This then lets me do my philosophical thinking over a lot of things, decisions and more. I don’t how it works for me but sometimes, answers just pop out of my mind while, for example, entering a corner with a certain fashion.

It’s like what drivers really do: Some of them go out at 4 in the morning, having the whole road network all to yourself.  It’s just you in your little metal shell. Though, in my case, everything’s digital but still.  This lets them get their freedom of mind, because everything’s clear, no distractions, no interruptions. Sometimes, I ask myself why do I pick that gaming device, start Gran Turismo and just do a run. I get up in the morning and start a small run. why? Well, I just love doing it. It makes me happy a bit. 

While driving, my mind, aside from anticipating the next corner, lets me relax a bit and tell myself to calm down a bit so that I can do my stuff properly. And also, sometimes, I do ask myself how to solve a problem the same way I encounter these corners on a chosen circuit or road.

Sometimes, I think what I’m doing is just making myself similar to an autistic person but I think people have their own ways of encountering problems in their life. People might have the same perspective as mine in the general sense but we are all unique in our way and for sure, we also have our own unique way of looking over things.

In the end, it is you who will go around the world. People will help you around, of course, but there will also be some people who will not cooperate with your progress.

After all of these efforts, in thinking, in considering decisions, in getting rid of the possible errors, in your life….

You get to see the fruit of your hardships, see the world yourself and enter in another expedition in your life. Zoom-Zoom~!

October 08, 2009, 7:13pm; Comments | Tags: VROOM VROOM nt

How do I deleted messages?

Ayer como a esta hora (2420) tuve un breve recuerdo de esos mensajes que tanto me gustaba recibir hace tiempo. Es triste y molesto; más lo segundo que lo primero. Como que se vuelve muy incómodo que ese tipo de cosas sucedan justo en cuanto empiezan a suceder cambios en mi vida diaria que (al parecer) son para bien. Y la verdad, no quiero que esto se vuelva una costumbre.

Also, letting people answer this, just because I can.

October 01, 2009, 2:50am; Comments | Tags: l nt

No Profit

Sí, se ha hablado muchísimo acerca de que si el modelo de negocios en la música está cambiando y que las disqueras se van a ir al diablo y que los artistas van a ganar dinero únicamente a través de los conciertos y que bye a los intermediarios y blablablá… pero este comentario del usuario Uzzah en esta nota de Fark me dejó pensando:

Compare two tourings kids acts: Dora the Explorer and the Wiggles. Dora is just a person in a suit, and thus, you can have 20 different Dora shows (with 20 different people in 20 different suits) playing in 20 different venues every day, generating 20x revenue each day. By contrast, the Wiggles are four specific guys, and there can be only one Wiggles show going on at a time. And if the Wiggles get sick, or want to stay home for a kid’s birthday, or just have burned out on touring, their income flow stops. With Dora, you just find another person to stick in the suit, and the revenue keeps coming.

The record industry used to be like Dora. Royalties from record sales produced a steady stream of income regardless of whether the particular artist played that day. This allowed artists to tour and then take a break, relax, work on new projects/songs, etc., and still be able to pay bills. But if you cut that revenue source out, the artist becomes like the Wiggles — if you don’t play today, you don’t get paid. Until the artist gets to the point where the revenue from one show can pay the bills for a whole week, playing live is just the equivalent of a 5-day a week, 50-weeks a year day job. There’s not a lot of room for creativity and exploration in a job like that, and the quality of the music will probably suffer.

Couple that with the points others have made about fragmentation of the audience leading to smaller — and thus less profitable — shows, and there’s a reason to believe that the “make your money touring” model just isn’t viable.

September 17, 2009, 4:36pm; Comments | Tags: 8 nt