Indie kids

For a true music guru , nothing is more irritating than when a song by a artist you've followed for years,  comes on a mainstream radio station. You openly cause a scene actually. The even more annoying part is when one of your musically challenged friends downloads ONE song by your a artist to which you've been a loyal fan ( who can recite every lyric to almost every song) , and then they act like they love them. If this doesn't apply to you , then well , you're a mainstream junky. 

"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."- Malcolm Wilson

Why ? Because corporate labels have been mutilating music for years , it's about what can sell, not about the integrity of the music. Remember when Train didn't suck ? Perfect example of playing into the mainstream pop scene. 

Tick Tok

Seriously , time isn't winding down. Can everyone stop saying life is so short. It's the longest  thing you will ever have to go through.

Make some mistakes. Take a train to somewhere random. Close your eyes and point to somewhere on a map , and go. Stop rushing like the grim reaper is breathing down your neck. Yeah yeah yeah I get it , find someone to spend your life with , settle down , have kids, work your life away in the same career you've been preparing for your whole life. I don't know about you , but I can't let the person I dream of being die in lonely frustration over the life I deserved but never had time to get around to. Sometimes you need to take a turn in a new direction , just to see where you'll end up. 

Architecture

Vintage photography of urban architecture 

Curtesy of Robert Cabuhat

The theory

"Mare del ghaccio" directly means sea ice , well because there is no word in Italian for Iceberg. 

The theory of the iceberg is that only 10% is on the surface , the other 90% is under the water; much like people. I make a consorted effort to draw my opinions from my own experience only. Don't ever think that you have the right to an opinion on someone else because to be honest , you don't know anything about anyone. You don't know anything about what anyone else has gone through , or what anyone has dealt with in their life. A very small part of ourselves in presented on the surface , you have to look under the water to find the very essence of one's being. 

"When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through." 

- Nicholas Sparks 

I am...

The music and the people you listen to says a lot more about you than anyone will ever know. Madonna , she said a lot worth listening too. 

"I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE."

"I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want." One , I've been saying this for my whole life , two I still couldn't agree more. 

"There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction. 'Cos your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit."

Basically what I am saying is , she stole my life. 

Free spirit

Anyone who knows anything about me , knows I don't like to be told what to do. I don't like to answer to anyone. Obvious authority issues, but I think we are masters of our own fate and architects of our own misery, SO why should I spend the majority of my life letting the ideas, opinions, and orders of others govern my life. Hey " I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way  I want to" - Jimi Hendrix ( probably THE best definition of a kindred spirit). I know I know , I am part of the "me" generation , where american teens are more confident , assertive , and entitled but still more miserable than ever. There is a difference between only living for yourself , and living by your own rules. Once we all stop either , believing we are entitled to opinions that we have no right to , or realize that if our life's joy is influenced by the opinions of society we will always be dissatisfied , we might all start to actually understand each other. You start to feel more free , once you no longer care about anyone else's opinion of yourself. Try it.

Ciao

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept." 

— George Carlin

Well kids , to be honest half the time I don't believe anyone has even the slightest idea of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde said "sometimes I am so clever I don't even understand what I am saying," hit the nail on the head if I do say so myself. We live our lives through quotations. I am full of them , because well most of the time I feel like I could have said them myself. We are all a lot more alike than we believe. I also listen to everything and anything Andy Warhol had to say.