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It's been a really strange couple weeks. My not going out as much approach has been paying serious dividends, I'm getting so much done with my work, my studio, the condo, and a billion other projects I've had on indefinite hold. Time has been my friend, rather than my mortal enemy. I've been running in the mornings and I'm growing a beard! (photos coming soon!)
I was very critical of the housing boom as it was happening, ARM mortgages, the whole ordeal. Just looking at it from a simple math standpoint - the numbers never ever made sense, the people getting rich were amazingly corrupt and shortcutting, and there was such a white people will do anything you tell them is okay vibe to the whole ordeal.
Now, in our next episode of white people will do anything you tell them is okay, is a new movement called walking away. Basically, if you don't want to pay your mortgage - don't. It's okay. You changed your mind. Yes, people change their minds every day and if you're really, really stupid - you can too. Awww, are you stressed out? It's just not fair that you're expected to be responsible for your decisions when all your friends are getting new tops from Bebe. So, yeah - got for it!
The reason I'm being so venomous about this is twofold - 1. a lot of people will never own anything. They'll (possibly) finish high school, work, have a couple kids, work more, and die sometime during a Chicago summer heat wave. 2. It's selfish. You know it's selfish, it's the definition of selfish. If everyone who has ever had regrets on buying a $500,000+ home just walks away - banks will collapse and no one will be able to send their kids to college without the cash to do so.
This now qualifies as a rant. I guess I'm just tired of people thinking their decisions don't effect others. It's insane. We all share the same air, everything effects everything, plain and simple. On that note, I really think I'm turning into a socialist. I'm not trying to, I just am.
On a much, much, lighter note - we're headed back into rehearsal next week to prepare for our show with Bittersweet. Same wonderful line-up, L and I, Dean on keyboards, and Corey playing drums. Should be a fun time.
I'm still a bit under the weather today (Catherine and I both got hit with a really nasty kid-bug) so I'm archiving all of my CD's. Everything I own is now on my laptop. The CD's are in a box, and headed down to our basement. Anyway, that's not really the point of my post. My point is - I forgot how much I dig Busta Rhymes. This is probably one of my favorite videos of all time.
I'm in the midst of upgrading my main studio computer to Vista. My laptop has run it, perfectly, for over 6 months now so I figured it was time to take the dive. This time, instead of accidentally erasing everything I've done for the last 3 years, I did some backups, got a new terabyte drive, and even unhooked some potential disasters. It went pretty smooth.
I'm also in the middle of updating the Christ Analogue site. Don't get all filled with wonderment, I'm just doing it to force learn myself some CSS. Back when I designed web pages, it was all simple. We had us a menu, maybe a frame or 2. Since then . . let's just say I'm a little bit out of practice with this whole web design thing.
Also in the works this week is a nice little (emphasis on little) iso booth to record vocals. Hope Lauren isn't claustrophobic. I'll be using it with a couple people before we get to the next Atomica Project record - people who are substantially larger than Lauren - so it should be fine.
