The Millennials: Blogs, Myspace, the Mp3....

A little Reflection on the Generation we have spun.

(hahaha.)

"People see rock and roll as youth culture and when youth culture monopolised by big buisness, what are the youth to do ?


Do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying the youth culture."

-Thurston Moore


So getting a little away from fashion today because I wanted to share some thoughts that have had be cynically looking at the general art scene today. I came across this interesting interview a month or so ago with Thurston Moore ( Sonic Youth) , and it really got my mind buzzing with his ideas and take on the music scene  of today along with the corporate control, contemporary art, and  everything in between. He is an older musician about 50 or so but dont be misconstrued he still rocks. I guess what I mean by that is he has been around for you know a few decades. The music of the 60's, 70's has in no doubt made an immense impact on music verses the music of today, most elder rockers consider rock and roll to have met its end-game years ago dating somewhere around the late 70's. A statement to be argued with but then again, our "oldies" are going to be what? Britney Spears? Lady Gaga? ....Nickleback? Hopefully is there is a (GOD) our generation will not be known for those artist, (not to knock anyone's hustle.) This leads me to further investigate the situation, why are we a group of copy cats?  A bunch of kids stealing music from the internet instead of rummaging through daddy's old records....taking what has been done and claiming it as your own . I mean everything has an inspiration , but to master something or create something new , you must look at the origin of the subject....which seems to be overlooked today since you can just as easily make a beat on garage band instead of picking up a real instrument. But thats not what sells...music has expanded in a sense and Big buisness , Corpotae Chains  know that... you have access to more media and music then ever before , there are hundreds of more ways to SELL SELL SELL to you and get your attention to the masses, I mean everyone uses some source of social networking sites these days, which creates an extemem advantage. They want to have their own mark branded  on the skin of the youth  for their own selfish endeavors. So what are the Millennials?



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The Millennials grew up amidst a time during which the internet caused great change to all traditional media. Shawn Fanning, a Generation Y member, founded the peer to peer file sharing service Napster while in college. Though the RIAA won a lawsuit and shut down the service in 2001, as a result of these innovations in technology the Millennials had access to more music on demand than any previous generation, and have forced the recording industry to adapt to new business models.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

Snip-it from article at wikipedia



In some ways, the Millennials have become seen as the ultimate rejection of the counterculture that began in the 1960s and persisted in the subsequent decades through the 1990s. This is further documented in Strauss & Howe's book titled Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, which describes the Millennial generation as Civic Minded, rejecting the attitudes of the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Kurt Andersen, the prize winning contributor to Vanity Fair writes in his book Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America writes that many among the Millennial Generation view the 2008 election of Barack Obama as uniquely theirs, and he writes about this generational consensus building as being more healthy and useful than the counterculture protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s, going as far to say that if Millennials can "keep their sense of entitlement in check, they might just turn out to be the next Greatest Generation".However due to the Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 this generation is also beginning to be compared to the Lost Generation of the early 20th century.



Due to my lack of consistency with my thoughts, ideas, or when I get on a roll, I loose focus. And therefore I dont have a link for the Thurston Moore interview that I'm refering too, but have another one for you that you should check out. It be lovely to get some feedback on what you guys think? Not sure I have any answers, but Moore on the other hand is speaking my language.


INTERVIEW


Check out :

Radio Dept.: Heavens on fire - If you have'nt already heard this newish track which features commentary noted above by Thurston Moore.

MTV:Says just dance

Today.. I have made a small pledge to myself, whether or not anyone is reading any of this; too post something each day or every other day if I can, too simply remind myself of exatcly what I give reference too in the title of this blog.

"Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture" ...of highly commercialized fashion and media. I in fact love all things that sparkle & glitter, sure...art is subjective and so is beauty, but even I know all that glitters is NOT GOLD. I will go on to post things here on this small space of expression I posess on the interweb, I will continue to include things about fashion, art and music. For it is what flows in me, and in some of you, I tell myself it's just a form of creative expression, noting at the same time I denounce the vacuous-ness of it, the falsehood of "class", and all the artifical sub-cultures it has given birth too.

  Like everyone else ; wrapped up (plugged in)to the "reality" of this man made media influenced based culture :where actors are heros and gods...another puppet is in office, and our economy is undergoing a complete meltdown. I dont see things improving or any promises being carried out, I see tragedy and laziness, a generation of the internet, you dont need a personality ! Myspace will create one for you. I see humans that spend more time talking about what Lady Gaga is wearing and who is going to win "dancing with the stars", than anything slightly important or even substantialy relevant to life.

  I think. we all get wrapped up , I mean how could you not? Everything you see, hear , learn in school, eat, suggestive movies,symbols, just polluted, perfectly constrived and concieved by masterminds, greed ridden gremlins .. hungry vacuous wolves.. out for one thing ....your "mind". (Ok im done.)

So therefore this leads me to a post I found on vigilantcitizen.com,  I did some google-ling because someone pointed out to me recently a claim that...Ms Lady Gaga ... is in fact a woman(turned man who under went a sex change) chameleon haired , Illuminati Puppet? (Maybe not having cable, is a good thing after all.)

Lets take a closer look.....
 
These are the claims showing evidence of occult symbolism which like most people should know by now: Its everywhere !!(hmm the dollar bill for example?.)
 

 The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, is a symbol showing an eye often surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually enclosed by a triangle. It is sometimes interpreted as representing the eye of God watching over humankind.

-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Typical symbol that the Illuminati use ...probably the most obvious and overused symbol you will see.)

Of course the dollar bill, most recognized use of the symbol and obvious one at that.

Signs ? Symbols? Yes...

Subliminal messages...most effective form of brain washing? Yes i think so.

Who specifically exposes your mind to these types of messages? Lets see for example:

:Freemasons use signs (gestures), grips or tokens (handshakes) and words to gain admission to meetings and identify legitimate visitors.:

Illuminati symbols are all around you and everywhere you go.Illuminati symbols can be traced back to ancient pyramids and illuminati symbolism in the Christian bible and other world religions and mythologies. The most popular illuminati symbols is the eye on the pyramid on the back of the one dollar bill. Other illuminati symbols can be found in architectural design, corporate logos and pop culture media.

Baphomet, the Devil, is part male, part female human and part goat.

::Baphomet Unique to Satanism. A demonic deity and symbolic of Satan. Can be seen as jewelry

It is also now being used by the masons. It can be seen on their buildings and the emblems they put on their vehicles to identify each other::

Kind of resembles baphomet's hand placement in the picture above? Or are we reading too far into it?

Notice here the lightening bolt on her right eye, this is also a symbol used by

the illuminati (freemasons).

Hello Kitty? Sure we all might have a slight obsession (maybe thats just me).

But is this an indirect message to youth? A symbol of childhood innocence?

Ok, on that note lets anaylze her "stage" name Gaga:

Gaga is a term that immediately refers to absent mindedness. Here are some synonyms taken from a thesaurus:

•Given to lighthearted silliness: empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly. Slang birdbrained, dizzy.


•Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.


Is she really imposing on us to be robotic, febel, fashion-minded, ready to just follow the heard? Is this promoting in itself a behavior that would resemble someone who has been a mind control victim? Just dance , wear fancy clothes, dont think for yourself, making this all appear to be trendy? fashionable? Hmmmm...

"True magical symbols are 'disguises' for ideas, how their forms
are so arranged as to provide a clue to some hidden meaning. The 'hidden meanings' are

often very subtle, and an ability to recognise magical symbols must be developed by anyone who

wishes to seek these out" (p. 11). 

-http://www.secretsofmasons.com/masonic-symbols.htm

In a spin: Gaga demonstrates some of her bizarre dance moves while dressed in skimpy underwear [The spiral represents time, something lost on mind control victims; metal is cold and impersonal.

Despite her well-publicised love of bizarre hats and sunglasses, GaGa insisted condoms were the number one accessory. [Condoms would be a crucial accessory to someone who was expected to service or 'perform for' her handlers.]

Really? I guess practice save sex kids!

Here playing with Madonna?( Another suspected puppet)

Nothing Lady Gaga is doing is actually "new" or really edgy..yet she may be talented

but is she just a toy, an image? Whether its staged or not? Why are there demonic and masonic symbols

appearing everywhere is she mocking mind control, the illuminati or representing ?

O' Canada

There, are many things I love about my home land Canada. But on the very top of that list are two things:
Canadian artist/bands and ketchup chips. Lately I have been listening to a lot of different artist, and have now collected a handful of bands (that are new too me) that I just believe you have to hear if your anything like me and you dont mind happiness and dancing.

Junior Boys

Junior Boys, have indeed been around the block and then some, they formed back in late 1999 in a small city that most people have never heard of ;Hamilton, Ontario( A small city that I am very familar with.)

They originally were a duo, consisting of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark, Johnny later left the group and Jeremy reached out to his engineer Matt Didemus.

Two albums later, they now have their third full length album out which is titled Begone Dull Care, and it was released on March 24 2009 in Canada, April 7 in the United States and May 11 in Germany.

I would highly advise checking out So this is Goodbye, which came out in 2006 but was

re-realeased as a bonus edition, including some remasters and remixes (simply candy for the ears).

 

 

 

"standing on the threshold of a dream,......."

Those Silly Vikings....

(Swedens)

 I am in love with a sweedish band.

       Since Imeem's transfer to myspace

      ( is myspace taking over the world...?)

I was stumped and aggitated....although myspace has a great stream of music and new artist to check out it has its complications and its tracks that temporaily "cut out". So this lead me to seek out a new platform for music on the web. Thats where I found hypem.....

           This is a music site ...generated by a group of people who discover and lurk music blogs to   find people who   know what you should be listening too.

I have to say ...very interesting and always fresh stuff that is posted.Hence....where the Swedish Band JJ ...comes into play .They dont have a (myspace) or a FB.Luckily, they have music posted from bloggers on Hypem and also on their record label's site (plus some cool vids) !!Maybe its just the image for their Album art-work or the samples of Lil Wayne they manipulate?hmm I dont know.but Im in Love.

The new album JJ n03 comes out sometime in March 2010

in the U.S and Sweden

cheers!

Yellow Bird Project : Bon Iver Charity T-Shirt

Yellow Bird Project : Bon Iver Charity T-Shirt


So who does'nt love Justin Vernon? (Mmm Bon Iver)..well here is a t-shirt he designed for charity , how lovely:)

Do something good and get this t-shirt..or at least check it out; I thought it was good.

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Where your childhood was.....

"Where the Wild things Are"

Ah what it was like to be a child....the smell...the taste...the sun coming down ...running back home. Never

quite feeling like you fit in anywhere, but your own secret imaginary world; that now in your later years would give anything to go back too. It's funny how we can't wait to grow up, yet when we get there all we do are things that make us feel young again. "Where the Wild Things Are"......is one of those movies that bring you back to that world...where everything is new and a journey never seems to far or long. I partially cried, smiled, and laughed with joy to this movie, its one you have to go see; even if you were one of those weird kids that never read the book.

The Soundtrack on the other hand is quite delectable as well.

Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Kids bring it home. Go and check out the soundtrack as I will supply the link!

http://touchexplode.com/?p=1646

or go to IMEEM DIRECTLY

Devendra? Portman? Is this Real?

Casually, browsing the interweb as i frequently do; i came across this post or article if you will on thisrecording.com . For anyone that knows of the artisit Devendra Banhart...you know of his precular style and interesting character. So as one would note; this to be something surreal of Banhart to do. A nice read, and lets me see Portman  in  in a different light.

Anya Marina :BREEZY

Anya Marina on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads: "'I get weird songs in my head and putting pen to paper is kind of like a diuretic,' Anya Marina says about why she writes songs. 'If I didn’t get them out, they would probably make my mind feel very bloated. And no girl likes to be bloated.'"

Ah...I came across this lovely lady today on the new twilight soundtrack new moon