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It’s kind of awesome how flaking on people works. I mean that. It shows a feint of unreliability, in a world where reliability is all that matters. Where we “Know nothin’ in life but bein’ legit.” I like it though, unreliability is the blank space where I can insert my own answer to what may have happened. Like some sort of metaphysical mad-lib, I can make this boring simple life of mine twisted into any number of possibilities and nobody remains accountable. This is my definition of philosophy.

Its like bureaucracy, or something that I would describe in that context. The system-over-the-individual-ness that systems to that effect generate. Confusing, I know.
Think of it in another term though, like describing the wind to a child. You really won’t describe ‘the wind’ but rather the effects of the wind.*

In this sense, the wind isn’t there. We can only show what the wind did, but if we come back to the site where my tree was blown over, we might ask, “So where is the wind now.” And I would respond honestly: “I don’t know.”

In this way Its like a perfect little system. Its like the graffiti subculture, you must participate to be a member. Participation may require work, danger (both physical and psychological) money for supplies, money for travel, money for representation. But it’s only qualification is participation, thereby making voyeurs to this system appear as cowards. This becomes a sociological context when one considers that rebellion in any context is still rebellion and dissent has no boundaries.

The problem is kind of simple but important. In a complex system such as this, discovery and development are one in the same, with relatively few places left to discover our development as a whole is growing more and more limited. I think we are restrained by our own sense of grandeur, I don’t think that a suburban shopping center is necessarily more interesting or more fulfilling than the hiking trail that was there previously but the decision was not mine to make. Not that I agree with the one that was made either. The more I wrestle with the thought of why that plot of native plants was killed to make a parking lot with a Starbucks and a Target, the more I realize that we are a species of quantity over quality that even I have no control of.

So in this place it becomes really easy to see the force of nature that we are. Even that becomes quite profound very quickly. Consider that a severe snowstorm that might hold one back for several hours is analogous to something like rush-hour traffic, which takes place daily. I mean the simple impact of our numbers alone has a downward-causation effect that is comparable to something like living in a constant hurricane. This is not an exaggeration.
  

To this end, I guess it is a series of conflicting systems; family with work, work with government, government with politics, politics with nature and so on. Of course there is no hierarchy, all these conflicting systems on various levels of interaction. Each gaining or loosing influence based on how much you interact with it. In a way, almost self-fulfilling.

  

*(theres nothing there to the apparent eye, but there is a specific sound, there is a motion to the trees that is characteristic of wind, that people become accustomed to and associate with wind)
       

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(for K Sky)
i dont exactly know how to put into words what I'm getting at but i'll give it a shot
like, their cover art appears to be inspired by one of the most expensive photographs ever taken:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Cent_II_Diptychon) which is cool and all but it doesn't speak to a fan like myself effectively, i feel it sends the wrong message considering how phenomenally talented they are.

on another note (comparatively) i watched a commercial featuring amber rose about responsible drinking, and she says something to the effect of: 'i might take a limo, or i might take a jet, but however i travel i get home safely' and it just portrays this complete detachment from the issue at hand.
(this isnt the exact video i mentioned but this is a similar commercial that i think still shows what i mean http://youtu.be/WNw-dlq6eog)

its like this trend that involves complete detachment from reality

so i suppose an in between point between diva and techno artist; Sweedish house mafia. Promotes vodka, makes great music. but even then, the last time i went to see them i couldnt get near their stage, and they were really the act i went to see. but on the real, its like i paid to see them and due to external reasons [that are neither the fan's nor the artist's fault] the venue wouldn't allow me to grace their floor. but then to watch them in this ultra overproduced vodka commercial; (http://youtu.be/PDboaDrHGbA) all music and politics aside it kinda stings.
at this point i feel like somewhere it becomes the responsibility of the artist to make sure that ticket prices dont become astronomically inflated, but they do nothing. they promote vodka in strange costumes

its like there is a disparate connection between music and consumerism, and i feel that the more that musicians play into this consumerist culture they don't realize how deeply it drives a wedge between them and their fans, but simultaneously i do understand that, like everyone, they need money    

point being, i don't exactly know where this rift begins, i have no way of knowing when something is overproduced, until it already is (which kind of sucks when you think about it) but i think that 16 bit lolitas are so off the hook, that i just don't want to see them become the aforementioned examples. and i think that imitating an overpriced photograph is not the best way to quell that trend

granted, that may be exactly what they want. and in that case disregard everything i said.

 but as a final example, im a fan of Jochen Miller, his production quality is off the chart. so, given what i had heard on his podcast, youtube, pandora etc. i dropped the buck-fifty to go see him live about a year ago (which is a lot when considering i work as an artist/waiter) and in short, it was terrible.  i mistakenly made the assumption that by being a good producer he was also a good Dj. but then in hindsight, his podcast is just inundated with watermarks, promotions, tie-ins, plugs and commercials. i think this reflected in his live act. and of course i have no access to tell him this personally so he continues to do it, not realizing that it makes him come off as a tool.

tickets to most of the events that these musicians play at typically exceed 70$ (not to mention service fees, parking, etc. etc.)  if the artist is a let-down thats like getting hit with two parking tickets, per person. and considering in the Jochen miller example, i convinced several of my friends to go to the show as well, so then i totally look like an ass too.

its unfortunate too because i feel like artists of great caliber have their talents exploited in the name of profit and thats a real let-down considering that the actual reaper of these benefits typically isn't the artist or the fans but some intermediary that really had nothing to do with the creative process at all.      
     
ps, if 16 bit lolitas are ever playing in La I would love to see them live, and I'd gladly go with you to check it out ...assuming i could afford tickets of course