Saturday, April 23, 2011
Retro Man Part 1
God help me, but I'm a throwback to the late decades of the 20th Century. My symptoms have gotten worse as I stuggled through the never ending winter of 2011.
Sometime this winter I started collecting my music on Vinyl again and taking the time to listen to it. It's still better, and each album is like an event on to it's self. In the '80s there was nothing I liked more then going to a record store (a dying business) getting a new record, checking out the album art, reading the liner notes and putting needle to vinyl. I remember bringing Rush's "Moving Pictures" home and, dropping it on my Gerard turntable. It just blew me to another world. CD's and MP 3s never did that for me.
I have a passion for car racing. but I don't like all the electronic controls that take the fun out of driving. I wish car companies would have stopped at Electronic Fuel Injection. Stability Control, Anti-lock and Traction Control take the fun out it for me. The car that I raced last year had none of that, then again I haven't won much either. Motorcycles are still pure, although they also, are getting more technical. But I only ride those, not race them.
I haven't written on this blog for a long time because I have had a hard time with how much I want of "me" drifting around the internet.
In the past writers would query editors to get their words out. If it was good , they'ed get published. Now there are millions of writers out in Cyber World. It is a million times harder to get noticed. It's the same with struggling starting rock bands. They used to tour and submit tapes to record producers. It was never easy, but now anybody can put a video on the internet. It's hard to get noticed with the millions of trash that's out there. It's just harder to find .... quality.
So, I'm really just and ex street racer from the '80s trying to stay legit in the new century. My next blogs will probably be about trying to find my way through the brave new world. Today I will end with a question. Whats better, personally running into a long lost friend, or getting a friend request on Facebook? TMK
Sometime this winter I started collecting my music on Vinyl again and taking the time to listen to it. It's still better, and each album is like an event on to it's self. In the '80s there was nothing I liked more then going to a record store (a dying business) getting a new record, checking out the album art, reading the liner notes and putting needle to vinyl. I remember bringing Rush's "Moving Pictures" home and, dropping it on my Gerard turntable. It just blew me to another world. CD's and MP 3s never did that for me.
I have a passion for car racing. but I don't like all the electronic controls that take the fun out of driving. I wish car companies would have stopped at Electronic Fuel Injection. Stability Control, Anti-lock and Traction Control take the fun out it for me. The car that I raced last year had none of that, then again I haven't won much either. Motorcycles are still pure, although they also, are getting more technical. But I only ride those, not race them.
I haven't written on this blog for a long time because I have had a hard time with how much I want of "me" drifting around the internet.
In the past writers would query editors to get their words out. If it was good , they'ed get published. Now there are millions of writers out in Cyber World. It is a million times harder to get noticed. It's the same with struggling starting rock bands. They used to tour and submit tapes to record producers. It was never easy, but now anybody can put a video on the internet. It's hard to get noticed with the millions of trash that's out there. It's just harder to find .... quality.
So, I'm really just and ex street racer from the '80s trying to stay legit in the new century. My next blogs will probably be about trying to find my way through the brave new world. Today I will end with a question. Whats better, personally running into a long lost friend, or getting a friend request on Facebook? TMK
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