by Matt | Feb 19, 2002 | Imported Entry
Damn. I wonder if Florida is prepared for this:
Ultra Music Festival 2002
Saturday, 3/23/2002
Presale: $50.00
Talent: Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, The Crystal Method, Deep Dish, Tiesto, Del “the Funky homosapien,” Tall Paul, Roni Size, Goldie, BT (DJ Set), Josh Wink, Talla 2xlc, Scott Bond, George Acosta, DJ Dan, Skribble, Donald Glaude, Kosheen “live,” Dimitri (Amsterdam), Icey, Christopher Lawrence, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Rap, Max Graham, Bad Company, Utah Saints, Grooverider, Dj Craze, AK1200, Baby Anne, Kevens (Live), Dara, DJ SS, Oscar G, Planet B (live), Andy C, Johnny D, David Padilla, MC Skibadee, Sattva, Galaxy Girl, Dero, Spacemen (live), Mistress Barbara, Hernan Cattaneo, Perry Farrel, Fabio, Diesel Boy, Richard Marley (live), Ariel Baund, David Waxman, DB, Austin Leeds, Prophecy (live), Luis Diaz, Edgar V, Storm, Element, Raymond Roker, Alibee aka DJ Weichei, DJ Marky, Wild Child, Prizm
URL: http://www.ultramusicfestival.com
I say again… damn. I wish I could be in Miami that weekend. Oh well.
by Matt | Feb 19, 2002 | Imported Entry
I think I hate WMP 7 slightly less today than I have in days past. Why? Because I found these. It certainly won’t replace winamp for my mp3s or AxCD for my CD listening, but it’ll sure make watching movies a little more interesting. Oh well. At least I can live with it now, before it was simply a crappy program. Now it’s nicely coated crappy program.
by Matt | Feb 19, 2002 | Imported Entry
I would like to also comment on a more personal trend. My uncreativity in the past 3 months or so. I haven’t written a stitch of poetry, taken photos for outside of class, or done anything remotely interesting computer graphics wise. This happened Sophmore year of college as well. For a few months I couldn’t think of anything interesting to do and it drove me nuts. I think I just need a little kick in the ass to get my creative juices flowing again. Some sort of catalyst. Like a new camera to take pictures with, a new poetry class to write for, a new web project to keep me busy. I don’t know. I just feel uncreative today and maybe I’m translating that into “I’m uncreative a lot.” Or maybe I’m hungry… yes, that’s it… lunch. What a brilliant and creative idea… it’s nearly lunch time.
Oh, and before I forget. I lost my watch. I can’t find it anywhere. It’s a silver(ish) Kenneth Cole watch. Retro looking, rectangle in shape with a dark red leather band. If anyone comes across it, let me know.
Later.
by Matt | Feb 19, 2002 | Imported Entry
Another day, another blog. Which, if you really think about it, is a weird phenomenon. The whole “blog”, “weblog”, “journal” trend if you will is definatly something odd. Most of you know I’ve been writing in this journal almost as long as I’ve had my cable modem, which is a good deal of my time here at SCAD. In that time (lets say in the past year) this journal thing has launched so far beyond “popular” that nearly everyone has one. The “blog” has replaced the “self-centered homepage”. You know the kind I’m talking about… “this is me, this is my dog, I enjoy cookies”. Now, I’m the first to admit that I’m certainly not original in having one, nor was I one of the “first” to have one, but I am glad I do. It gives me an opportunity to vent a little and I like that. But why does everyone else have one? I was curious. Luckily, my answers can be found, linked together, on one page. That page is the main Blogger.com homepage. Usually I don’t go there. I have a program called BlogBuddy so I can update, change and post my entries from my desktop. But, I had to change an internal journal setting so I took a look. What I found was kind of creepy.
There’s the usually reasons for a journal: I wanted to vent, I wanted to tell the world something, I wanted to report on things, I wanted to stay in touch with family, that sort of thing. Then there was something else. At least 4 very buisness oriented reports saying how profitable blogs can be, how they’re “where the real action is”, how they can “make the web work for you” by marketing yourself. The sickest thing I saw, and I’m sure it’s innocent (it just seems like a bad idea to me) is The Peer-to-Peer Review Project. This actually made me feel ill. It’s a site where “reviews” get to comment on your personal life in a movie critic type way. They’re not commenting on your life persay, but your writting ability, your “emotional content”, your “style” of writting, things like that. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have posted about having a really shitty day and have someone tell me it wasn’t “convincing.” What the fuck is that about?
We’re all skating a really thin line. A line between trend/marketing device/personal expresion. Our personal expression has become popular, and that’s a good thing. More power to the people is always a good thing. You guys know I’m all about personal expression. But when will the day come when we get blog related spam in our email instead of regular spam. Something like “express you ideas in a brand new journal” instead of the usual “increase traffic to your site” crap. I don’t know. We’ve certainly pasted the point of no return. Kids in jr-high have their own domain names for heaven’s sake. They have journals and they can use them to talk about their lives. Didn’t it use to be just “us nerds” who did that shit in high-school? Apparently its trendy now.
I hope, I really do, that all this won’t back fire. That in another year we won’t have marketing based blogs. That things like Blogger and Live Journal won’t be completely pay services. That individuals won’t sell out and place banner ads all over their journals in order to make an easy buck from the marketing. I hope, I really do.
With that I’ll leave you with a few links. These are what the professionals are saying about our “hobby.”
Wired.com News brief
Weblogs Make the Web Work for You – Buisness 2.0
Far East Economic Review – Where the party is.
PC Mag – The Blog Phenomenon
Fortune Small Buisness
That is all.
by Matt | Feb 18, 2002 | Imported Entry
Fuck. Fuck the traffic. Fuck SCAD parking. Fuck them all. I even got up early today. I was downtown by 8:10 and drove through SCAD parking lots until 9:05 looking for a fucking parking space. I eventually gave up and parked in the city parking garage and it’ll cost me $6 when I leave. What the fuck? Why do I pay $25 for a parking sticker if I won’t have a parking space. Both this city and this school have serious parking issues. They even “redesigned” the Pulaski parking lot for be less useful. Serious. That parking lot was badly designed to begin with. So much so that there were two “sides” with spaces to people to park in but students kept parking down the middle. So, they “redesigned” it and instead of moving spaces so that you couldn’t block people in, the ADDED a lane down the middle. Now people can block people in on purpose. Arg. I suppose I should be paying attention in class now… Later.
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