the last thing i wanna do at the last month of a year is celebrate something that’s outta date — don’t get me wrong, pretty lights, christmas cheers, heck even some egg nog if that’s in your “celebrations” bag, i get it, just a time to unwind on the year before hitting the calendar in the great start of the year reset.
but let’s be honest here, we ain’t outta the woods for a long shot, in fact we will probably be eating tablets and pills from now on especially as climate change starts to really bed in, it’s really difficult for me to focus on the future when it’s always eroding (think jim carrey) so quickly, we caused this (as well as well just choice) but here we are, optimising what we have left.
i’m always amazed at myself how calm i’m taking this “middle of an extinction event” life. As long as the shelves are stocked and i can still get a drive through coffee eh. We keep trucking. We are literally living inside of an electric dream.
I was fetching a coffee the other day (while picking up some amazon wares) and this album from a classic cheesy film i love called electric dreams just jumped out at me. i’m not sure if this was the first film that richard branson backed but it’s certainly in there. when he started to build his money he put a bunch into this and made that classic song by giorgio moroder and philip oakey
i certainly remember feeling it was an easier time, heck in the 80’s we were just getting addicted to this crack for the first time — electronics and computers and MUSIC, oh the music was just so upbeat and positive, we hadn’t come into contact with cancel culture and the toxic anti-social media element that would get reflected back upon us if we crushed the coat tails of some diverse karen.
it’s not ALL bad, it just feels like this mega race right between advances in technology, adoption and coming to terms with the way the world is rapidly changing. I can certainly feel those “around the corner” dark vibes where potentially the arse end of everything could fall out and we are living our own version of “the road” on a daily basis.
i find it hard to innovate and chase in my own life when i feel this sub carrier wave of white noise bubbling under the surface — keeps me in this loop of making sure the day runs right and hopefully you can set yourself up for tomorrow with a little bit of a macro lens on the rest of the week and month, i’d like to think longer but really, it’s tough with all the inactivity brain fog of corona this and that.
i’m so over the establishment and the people moaning about it back and forth with their ill fitting expectations of how things should be running while we stand around looking left and right for something new to happen, locking ourselves inside of screens to get our latest hit that makes life a little more manageable.
at least ramen is on the menu for tonight, i’ll be drinking of course because it’s christmas time and fuck me beer is still available and it’s gonna be a happy few hours so i’m gonna get those drinks in while i can — you got draft, i’m here for some quad damage on the bank account for that while i get my slurp action on.
maybe i’ll go full meta when matrix 4 drops in like six days time and we find some meta meaning in it all, maybe the next digital level won’t be so bad where we can just upload a version of ourselves up into the cloud and they can earn that digital basic income for us to keep our meat sacks going in the waking hours before the clouds get dulled by the over processing of planet earth.
maybe if i read less news then life and the planet would not feel so intense. maybe it’s ok because we throw out and diminish our ethics and ideals anyway on a daily basis, maybe we will all have our star trek kirk & khan moment balancing on a rock around lava — and that’s ok.
humble x
pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin sxsw → video chat with robert scoble → music video can you spot me?