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sathorI'm so not alone. Even if my music were good - it's irrelevant.
I just found an incredible band, with a grand total of 66,000 views. They were based in LA. There's no reason this group should have failed...but apparently they did.
http://www.myspace.com/otherotherpeoplepeople
You should listen. Minou, you'll love this.
I think it says a lot, though. It tells me a lot. And makes it hurt a lot less knowing the "dream" if there ever was one, is dead. At the one end of the spectrum, I shouldn't care because art is subjective and at the end of the day, my goals were never material. At the other end, I know that there's millions of great thinkers and songwriters, and musicians, who were never heard except maybe by their families, and friends, and maybe some gigs they played which nobody even remembers. They're a whole lot better than me, too.
So what is the next step now? Well, I'm going to settle in for the long haul, one way or another.
I think my happiness will be higher if I work, make money, and achieve independence. I don't really know that with certainty, but I don't know anything with certainty. If I return to college, I know I will likely incur large debts. I may try to do so without incurring them before I give up utterly and accept my fate as working class. But ultimately, I think working class is my blood, and I think there haven't been any real chances for upward social mobility in my life...and I shouldn't expect them, therefore, in the future.
It's so sad. But you have to face reality. I can't spend the rest of my life fuming over the problems inherent in the system. It has definitely improved, slowly, over the ages. And I'm sure it will continue to. If there's anything...anything at all...that I should focus on in my life, I think...it would be trying to secure a faster rate of advancement...better education for people...getting society to a point where opportunities are there for everyone, regardless of race, economic class, geographic location. Genetics will be the only deciding factor then...and hopefully, some day, we learn how to eliminate the "undesirables" without problems...because I think most of them suffer a great deal, and there's no need for that suffering.
I just found an incredible band, with a grand total of 66,000 views. They were based in LA. There's no reason this group should have failed...but apparently they did.
http://www.myspace.com/otherotherpeoplepeople
You should listen. Minou, you'll love this.
I think it says a lot, though. It tells me a lot. And makes it hurt a lot less knowing the "dream" if there ever was one, is dead. At the one end of the spectrum, I shouldn't care because art is subjective and at the end of the day, my goals were never material. At the other end, I know that there's millions of great thinkers and songwriters, and musicians, who were never heard except maybe by their families, and friends, and maybe some gigs they played which nobody even remembers. They're a whole lot better than me, too.
So what is the next step now? Well, I'm going to settle in for the long haul, one way or another.
I think my happiness will be higher if I work, make money, and achieve independence. I don't really know that with certainty, but I don't know anything with certainty. If I return to college, I know I will likely incur large debts. I may try to do so without incurring them before I give up utterly and accept my fate as working class. But ultimately, I think working class is my blood, and I think there haven't been any real chances for upward social mobility in my life...and I shouldn't expect them, therefore, in the future.
It's so sad. But you have to face reality. I can't spend the rest of my life fuming over the problems inherent in the system. It has definitely improved, slowly, over the ages. And I'm sure it will continue to. If there's anything...anything at all...that I should focus on in my life, I think...it would be trying to secure a faster rate of advancement...better education for people...getting society to a point where opportunities are there for everyone, regardless of race, economic class, geographic location. Genetics will be the only deciding factor then...and hopefully, some day, we learn how to eliminate the "undesirables" without problems...because I think most of them suffer a great deal, and there's no need for that suffering.
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Date: 2010-12-05 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 01:18 pm (UTC)I guess they're broken up. Someone linked to a solo electronic project in their info section, it's not that great. Too bad because when they were all together they really had something.