10 Years Later…
There's something beyond being the base. Perhaps it's the simple math done by moving the decimal. Maybe it's a obvious as the 10 digits hanging at the end of our arms when we are born. Does someone missing a finger work better in nines? Hard to say.
Point being the term "decade" and it's intrigue. When freed from it's VH1 confines of loving the 1st integer and ignoring the rest, a decade can prove to be even more interesting. Did music change more from 1980 to 1990 or 1984-1994? Well, that's difficult..... music talk is for arguing. What about your life? Surely no one's life is tied to 0-9 but it can change dramatically in 10 years.
Perhaps we just like grouping things in ways we can handle. We might live 80 years but 80 is too far out there. Tell me 80 phone numbers from memory. 80 books you've read. 80 stories about your cute and hyper-intelligent kid(s). Even our favorite topics don't usually go 80 deep. Nor would you carry general reviews of each of your 80 years with you. See 1983 was different from 1985 in many ways..... yawn..... ok grandpa.
A decade though? Well even the best of us won't see more than 9 of those. More like 5-6 full of memories for most of us, probably only 1-3 so far amongst my readers. So yeah, grouping things in 10 doesn't bother me in the least, I just ask that you consider sliding your start and end points and seeing what you find. I just found this, written about 10 years ago. Prescient, eh?
["Synthesizer Man", words by Andre Benjamin]
synthesizer-
microwave me
give me a drug
so I can make seven babies
pump my breasts up
can you suck the fat up?
please make my life appear
like ain't no such thing as bad luck
my nose ain't right
think I need a new one
just take your pick
a yellow, red, black, or a blue one
virtual reality
virtual bullshit
synthesizer preachers can reach you
up in the pulpit
who a bitch?
give me my gat
so I can smoke this nigga
tell his mamma not to cry
because they can clone him quicker
than it took his daddy to make him
nigga's bitin' verbatim
thought provokin' records
radio never played 'em
instant quick grits, new, improved
hurry hurry, rush rush, world on the move
marijuana illegal but cigarettes cool
I might look kinda funny but ain't no fool
now if you wanna synthesize I empathize...
now if you wanna synthesize I empathize...
but if you synthesize
I will understand
your synthesizer man
Out, Done Again! [aka Release with Completion]
See here see here!
The 2nd one is done!
2merica presents:
Sensors & Switches & Buttons
The 2nd el-pee.
see and hear it @ http://cdbaby.com/2merica2
Boo-hoo---you can't buy it just yet....
should be in all the digital stores in 3-6 weeks.
YET.... we have a limited number of
custom 2merica box sets
containing both LP's and deluxe packaging
Contact us if you are interested in acquiring
such a rare treat of a product.
Okay, so here's the scoop on this 2nd album:
original codename was 2nd & 10
22 tracks of chaos. Splitsville.
Robots over here, rhythm section over there.
So 10 robots went to 9, 9 splits to 3.
The triangle. Perfectly balanced.
Perfectly prime. Strange new times.
Everybody has to get paid
for the triangle to pay off.
From the beginning of time
we've been fed these lines.
BUTT ANYWAY
Over analyzing our three stages
of production, profit, and consumptions
led to this collection of songs
entitled Sensors&Switches&Buttons
or just something to play with.
Yours truly and jaimes7m are back
along with swifty, yep & jesus too!
Plenty of robot destruction
with new age 8 bit production
Introducing new voice low-cro
some horn blowing from j
and your favorite talking heads
B*N*B*T*F*O
Your Daily Forecast
Sometimes it's hard to believe how stupid some people are. I try to stay humble and self-deprecating. I know i'm flawed.
This internet, these blogs, this youtube, these bookmarks are supposed to make us more informed.
More educational materials are available for free now than ever before. But regardless - myths, hype, spin, and falsehoods abound. Ignorance is bliss in this nation of self-servitude and convenience.
Today's item:
Global warming is not affiliated with your daily weather forecast. That is to say, if it's hot out that's not proof that we are all going to burn up. If it's cold out that does not mean that all scientists are morons.
If you study the science, research the evidence, and deduce some reasoned facts you would probably agree with most of the scientists who say man-made global warming is a real and serious problem, if not one that is on a much larger scale than the daily temperature in your neck of the woods.
Scientists and climatologists admit the weather is a amazingly complex issue,
affected locally by all sorts of independent variables. But when crunching the numbers on a macro scale, such localizations disappear and patterns emerge. There is quite the difference between your local forecast and global weather statistical analysis.
If you come with only a political viewpoint, or generally find science and facts to be opposite of your preferred points of reference, then yeah, cold days prove scientists are wrong and global warming doesn't exist. All all the storms and warm days just prove that the end days are near, because we only are getting warmer as a planet overall because god must want it that way.
So, to review:
--airplanes can't fly because metal is heavier than air.
--boats are also much heavier than water so they sink.
--global warming is a crock because it's 5 degrees outside today.
Any other questions? I love America.