indefatigablog

If you’re not hip to Black Cab Sessions, you are in for a treat!

…if you touch me, well i just think i’ll scream
cuz it’s been so long, since someone challenged me.
and made me think… about the way things are…
made me think…about the way they could be.
i believe it- why? oh my…
ooh my lord…ooh my lord…i don’t even know why…but…

oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!
oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!

feelings…why? oh my: human needs. heartbeats.
i can see it…all. by the way you smile.
i’m smiling too! i see myself in you.
i am with it! ooh man i am wired!
ooh my lord! ooh my lord- yeah…now i really know why!

oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!
oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!

Today i say goodbye to social networking. I no longer wish to opt-in to additional consumer surveillance.

If i had an office job that bored me to tears, i would surely feel differently and continue to click my way through mob, zombie and other such mindless *wars*.

Alas, i have no such job and after a discussion about its pros and cons, it is undeniably clear that the cons ruthlessly outweigh the pros.

After using the features that Facebook provides *free* to users for the past couple of years, in all fairness it was fun to occasionally find a long, lost pal.

However, given the amount of information Facebook sells about me and anyone else who uses it, I began to think this way : “They’re making lots of money off of tracking what I spend and where and potentially using my words and images without my knowledge. Is that such a great deal for anyone else?”

To boot, I was friends with a lot of people who I never see or actually have much in common with [towards the end i actually started removing “friends”].

As for the friends i see on a regular basis, i don’t need such a tool to stay in contact with them.

So — so long, social-networking-disguised-as-data-mining-and-profiling sites!

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Now that I’ve dived earnestly back into playing music every day, I’m looking for a few good tunes to learn.

Pollee immediately suggested this jewel and not only is it a great song but very simple and thus gratifying because a fella can play it almost immediately :

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Have you ever wondered why they call it television “programming”?

Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it INFLUENCES people how to behave would it?

Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it TEACHES people to adopt an identity that isn’t their own would it?

Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it CONVINCES people that they need to act a certain way to be COOL would it?

Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the WORLD would be a better place without it would it?

Fact : programming is programming you.

Yet Another Reason To Get Rid Of Your TV :

Is ANYONE here to make friends?

This “reality” makes me think there’s not much difference between television programming and how these people feel/think at work, at home and in society at large.

Are YOU here to make friends or are you just here to *win*?

You *winners* aren’t able to answer that honestly and that’s ok - you didn’t come here to make friends.

The rest of us didn’t come here to make friends with self-serving bullies.

Sadly, according to this study, the bullies aren’t going away any time soon.

It’s easy to get down about this but, fortunately, there ARE good people around who help balance them out : )

The only catch is, you won’t see or *meet* any of them on TV.

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