I Left the Stage Because I Thought I Had to Shit

DRM

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

“If the greedy record industry would embrace [DRM-free music] I truly think people would pay for music and consume more of it.”
-Trent Reznor

I agree with this. I buy tons of music. Most of which, I preview in its entirety in decent quality (192kbps+) before doing so. “In order for the general public to think it’s good music, they must have instant gratification from listening to it. Fuck that.”It seems the majority of people just hear a song on the radio that they can sing along with hearing it only once, and go out and buy the whole album. As it is now, you won’t catch me purchasing anything but CDs off the internet. If I only buy actual discs instead of DRM-infected files and the FBI decides “Hey, you only bought 75 CDs this year and you downloaded 150. We’re gonna take your computers.” then at least I’ll still have something to show for. Not that it’s my fault that 90% of the music that comes out today is shit, or that in order for the general public to accept it or think it’s “good” music, it must have instant gratification from listening to it. Fuck that. Most of the shit I listen to has me wondering what I think of it for the first few listens, then I usually end up really liking it. Those are the CDs I buy. I’m usually like “man, this CD is fucking strange” then a week later after listening to only that CD, I fucking love it. It doesn’t leave my car CD player for at least a month. Try doing that with any of these bullshit 1-hit containing CDs you hear about through advertisements and/or the radio. You’d probably end up disemboweling yourself during your commute one day. Fuck the radio. Fuck the media. Make up your own mind about what to listen to and/or buy.

_josh

More stuff added

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Check the Photos section for some pics I took while we were in Louisiana for a week, and some from Movie Night the Saturday before we left.

I got Drupal up and running on here now. I’ll be comparing it to WordPress.

Update on 4/20: I was going to put Movable Type on here to for comparison against WordPress and Drupal, but it’s not cooperating. “Fuck Movable Type.”Already I’ve spent more time just trying to get it installed than the other two put together. My verdict: Fuck Movable Type. I’m sure some of you are like, “oh, he doesn’t know chmod” or something. Guess what, I do! I’ve installed stuff in the past with similar instructions (I’m just getting spoiled by how easy these newer apps are to install). I previously ran a few different versions of YaBB and phpBB (the current alpha was painless to install though). Most of them you had to make sure the files were uploaded either ASCII or Binary (of course the FTP client should take care of this, some don’t) and then make sure your permissions were set correctly. I tried this with Movable Type several times. Fuck it. It is obviously an inferior product that doesn’t deserve the effort.

_josh