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Happy Father’s Day
Alright, I think I hate this whole weekly post thing. I predicted it would make me feel like an asshole to have a few in a row and I was right.
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Reorganization
I had this crazy system of randomizing records to review that is complete nonsense. It was experiment that obviously failed since I seem to average about 1 1/2 reviews a year this way. I’m just picking any from the list from now on, I can get the ones done I actually want to do and skip the others or do them last. Last?
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HearJapan closing
Jeez, I had some stuff bookmarked to buy when I have money again that I’m not going to be able to get now. I liked HearJapan because it gave some hope that there was a way to still run a business on a model that makes no sense at all. There’s still JapanFiles, but they tend to deal with bands that people have heard of. HearJapan had some big names but mostly seemed about selling new or unheard of artists. Which is cool, but J-pop fans are not really that adventurous I guess. And the credit buying system is like an old boardwalk arcade. The way things are going is for artists to go directly through iTunes, Amazon or Bandcamp. People pay for stuff when the price is reasonable and the process is streamlined.
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WFMU & jobs
Tom Scharpling had his 500th show this past week after 11 years. Congrats to him, it’s a great show (but I still hate the name). I’ve read some interviews where he seems to have forgotten how much of a trollfest the show used to be. Of course people hated it. I mean it’s a funny show by itself, but the people that really get the joke has to be an increasing minority. Anyway, I used to volunteer at the station which means I worked for free. I don’t regret it and would do it again, but I am never doing that for anyone else. I just can’t. I seriously went to art school and now I clean toilets. It’s not a joke and I’m not mad, it’s just what you have to do. And this movie looks cool(? I feel pretty weird about it), but I would rather give money to the station. $50G’s? Couldn’t that fix their roof? I don’t get it.
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Issues
I used to go to a shrink. At first I had to go every week. Then it was once a month. Eventually, I was only going a couple times a year until I started skipping years and now I don’t think I need to back. The thing about it is, when you’ve got an appointment in a month or two, you have that long to think about all the things you’re going to say to the guy and it’s all this turgid emo levels upon levels of bullshit and when you finally get in there he asks you how your shitty job is going and if you found a girlfriend and to rate how you’re feeling 1 to 10 and then he tells you time is up. If the number is on the low side he’ll fill out a script but that’s it. None of that ever made me feel any better, it made me kinda mad actually. But the thought process of articulating your problems in order to tell someone is what helps, even if you don’t tell them. Blogging is the same way now. I don’t want to trivialize people still going through stuff, but I don’t have to do that anymore. That should really be the goal. But then the question is, do you have anything else to say? A comedian’s got issues, but they also have jokes. A lot of bloggers have given up that probably had a similar experience, using discussion of music to talk about their problems, now I guess they don’t have problems. I wanna hear those people talk about music still. Twitter and facebook, whatever, these are companies that don’t give a shit about you. Some people just want attention and those are places to get it, I don’t really care about like that too much. You have to care about you’re own writing or whatever you’re trying to do. %
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