Computer warriors are no where near as tough as the actors from the movie, and they were playing a role.
I don't think most realize even though you're making a disparaging comment dissing someone and calling them names you're still giving them props and promotion just like a poster on the subway (they say any publicity is good)....every band/personality/character has a computer tough guy ragging them....whether they're envious or outright hate you they're spending and wasting energy dropping that so-called knowledge...... of how small your opinions actually are and never add up..... the fact is most people don't care as much as we think about let alone opinion.
Even the toughest guys (La Cosa Nostra members, for example) are/were some of the biggest wash-women known to man....everyone is suspect and guilty of gossip, but how much do we all curb it and not sound like hypocrites when we talk about the haters online, or this asshole musician/singer/person/ or that promoter/label dude....etc?
I don't have an answer, but if we all tried to minimize it and we checked our egos at the door when we go into a show there would be so little beef and assaults if we minded our P's and Q's and didn't talk shit or cry if we get punched while dancing.....if you don't have a thick skin then don't take the role or responsibility of being somebody in this thing of ours.....even a simple kid/fan has to put up with this in their own little cliques.....like we never left high school, right?
If I actually cared about the comments people have for me I would've rolled up into a ball and withered the fuck away by now.....but I don't.....and I didn't quit...I'm still here.
I'm actually lucky. and I don't have the usual ratio of haters my friends have out there online...I call it "The David Lee Roth Theory" because no matter how much people like what you do you have just as many who hate what you are and what you do.
The majority of things said are mis-information and heard-through-the-grapevine all straight out of The HardCore Inquirer.....gossip rag material you read while on line for groceries like a fat-old lady and told to you or posted by a blowhard who is deluded to thinking they work for TMZ or some shit.......unless it's on camera(or in a person's own words) I won't believe half the shit out there until I saw for myself... or until I heard as many sides to story as possible.
I learned how funny it all actually is a handful of year's ago watching the guys in TERROR (Buske and the whole crew over 6+ years ago) laughing their asses off as they read the shit-talk online....I wasn't sure if it was a healthy approach and response or it was them and friends actually doing the posts (it was a healthy approach of course), and reminded me again how I was able to take it ever since I joined this musical popularity contest (I joined a HC band with metal sounds but it turned into a critique/debate club 25 to 30 years later with the internet ego of self-media
I've yet to meet one laptop loudmouth who actually (after calling them on it) back up their words at a show or some time and place either.....I had one, who after getting upset by fan responses I received on one board started a thread(to try and embarrass me) but it became even bigger and back-fired on him....he was so butt-hurt he then called me a clown....so I told him the next time you see me at a show, say hello, and we'll clown around a little......then he erased everything and never heard from him again.....this is a perfect example why none of us should let such talk actually bother you because the mother-fukker is transparent....it's rarely face to face, if ever.
When you find their "anonymous" asses out they become the last syllable of the word anonymous....a mous(e)....I hate having to stoop to this level, but sometimes you have to give it back and shut'em down
I figured I'd start blogging....because since all you think your comments/opinions are worth time mine must be, right? I mean, I've been a negative big-mouth too and I get caught up in it too, at times....but I make a better effort of holding my tongue as well....when you talk shit you're just revealing how jealous, self-righteous, embittered you are.....revealing your ugly side like a kid in a school yard with a puss on their face as if they didn't get dessert at lunch.
I also hope the blog gives you an idea of where I'm at as well, and give you an idea of what it's like to be a 50 year-old man who still wants to play music and do it better than a kid half his age.....it's really not easy but it's more exciting to be in it and doing it than it is reminiscing and wishing you could still do it.
That's where my head is at day to day, and thankfully I'm starting to get busy and keep it running on track.....we're starting to pick up speed now
I hope the blog at least will keep showing a better side of me.....I'm hoping I have much more to offer than gossip and negative opinions. Hopefully someone can learn something by at least not making the same mistakes I did or at least be entertained.
Hell....it could end in a trainwreck....
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