The Daily Madman

It’s not my intetion to make this into a typical wailing wall blog, men sometimes posts like that might appear. As this one, after an interview of Chris Cornell from The Pulse Of Radio. He comes out with so many narrow-minded things my whole body starts to itch. Will probably feel better when I shared my thoughts about it here:

…rock music has “definitely lost its place at the center of the musical universe. (…) When I was growing up in the late Seventies, everyone could identify the five or 10 bands that formed the center. (…) Now kids turn on the radio and hear Eminem or Kanye, so that’s what they gravitate towards.

First of all. It’s very unlikely that “kids” nowadays turn on the radio if they want to listen to music. This statement alone clearly shows that Chris is one of those pseudo-analysers who doesn’t have the slightest clue what they are talking about.

Instead he is joining that special group of people pretend to have studied the surroundings carefully, made some brainy conclusions which they then proudly serve to the rest of the world. But all they really do is to sit and guess, using their very limited view of the world, along with a good bunch of preconceptions.

Here are some more pseudo analyzies:

They’re making music on iPhones. Everything’s fractured. The reason there’s no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn’t have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I would really like to know who “they” are in this case? My Chemical Romance? System of a down? The Hives? The Killers? In Flames? And if people are using their iPhone to make music, does it really matter? Personally, I think the result is everything that counts, not the tools you use.

Because, where should you draw the line then? Isn’t some kind of cheating to buy your guitar from a music shop? I mean, you can build one on your own. So did Brian May. Or invent your own studio equipment, just as Les Paul did. With this way of thinking, no music should be considered as “true”, expect the music played bone flutes and skull drums. I have my suspicions that Brian May actually didn’t do everything on his own, he might e.g. have bought his strings from a shop.

And in the 16:th and 17:th (and all other in the history of human) centuries, people most likely had more things to do and distract their minds with then sitting in a room and think? Honestly I have no idea about Shakespeare’s methods of work, but the only thing that really matters is that he was a writer with a tremendous amount of talent. But that doesn’t necessarily means that they way he worked (whatever it was) would suit anyone else at all.

Do you think Shakespeare had become a better or worse writer if he had been able to use a computer to write on? Or if he had to carve them into the walls of a cave, using tools of chert? Who knows.

But it’s very likely that he wouldn’t have had time to make as many writings as he did, if he had used the later of those two methods. Which I think Chris Cornell should consider, before talking to much about the development of technology and it’s impact on creative work…

Well, I think that’s enough for today. Personally I think Soundgarden is on of the weirdest band ever to play on Sweden Rock Festival. But if people like it, fine.

Our next EP might probably sound somewhat more bombastic than our previous recordings, or what do you think? A lot of tracks there is, this is a screen shot from the track who is most likely to be the first one. I am not jealous at all on the poor bloke who will have to mix all those tracks. Unfortunatly it’s very likely that it will be me. Have to buy a bigger monitor screen!

It just struck me that it in some way would have been kind of fun if I hadn’t posted anything at all in the following one or two months, after this post. But on the other hand, a homepage which doesn’t have any updates for 1-2 months might have been (with a BIG maybe) ok ten years ago.

But who knows, just because those bumps haven’t had any legs, claws or fangs yet, it doesn’t nessecarily means that I can sit back and just enjoy my flowers. So they might still be a potential cause if you don’t see any updates here.

Ok, this might be somewhat bantering. But I couldn’t resist. So, congratulations to Mats Caneman, thanks to what might have been this milleniums most obvious/contrived (whatever you prefer) explanetion about why DVD sales decrease. In swedish news paper SVD you could read the following recently:

Also Mats Caneman, chairman in the association for Sweden’s video distributors, blame the decreasing sales mostly on illegal file-sharing. Another reason is that the intrest for certain categories of DVD:s decreases.

– Movies with bad quality will have a harder time to survive, because the customers have become more discering and less intrested in bulk movies. Earlier there was this pent-up intrest to just watch a movie, and people could watch anything. Nowadays, people now what they want and wont buy anything else.

Mats, times are though nowadays. Customers who know what they want and doesn’t buy whatever crap you try to sell. But it’s of course much easier to blame the file-sharing?

Or, might it be that you have some useful theories coming? That if you sell something that people wants and are intrested in, they will most likely pay for it? And the opposite, if you try to sell something people don’t like with a price they don’t want to pay, those products might be hard to sell.

Universities which offers education in trade and economics might be intrested in a guest lecture!

Once again, I remembered to water my houseplants before they faded away. Actually, I think this might be a personal record in how long I managed to keep the same houseplant alive. This one on the picture was given to me on my birthday this autumn, and you have to agree, it looks alright?

Ok, this kind is evidently called “wardrobe houseplant”, which I suppose indicate that you don’t have to that fastidious about how to water it and that kind of stuff, but I don’t think you always should care much about the details, and still consider this as an achievment.

Earlier, I managed to dry out cactus plants.

But I am a little bit worried about those knobs you can see starting to show. Probably it’s nothing to worry about, but I still can’t avoid to think about the movie Gremlins, if someone remember? Cute and harmless pet animals, but if you forget one of the very simple care instructions, they turn into lethal monsters.

So if I don’t update here, you might now why.