I'm at my producers home in El Cerrito California. We'd just finished laying the hooks for a song I co-wrote. The room is filled with excitement with others listening in on what could easily be a major hit. After listening to the entire recording, the buzz starts around kats wanting to check their myspace page. MYSPACE??? I'm thinking ... "What the hell is a myspace?"
You see up until 2 years prior I was the tech savy fool. Knew everything of the goings on with the internet from Google, to web-cam conferencing...to having the first digial camera at clubs in the bay area scene. The dot com boom lay offs landed me in a uncompromising position that left me less tech savy..ie..broke as hell. Yeah everybody has a downside. Anyways, Myspace was totally new to me and I got instantly hooked. It came across as a site for musicians who were looking to gain major exposure outside of their own realm. Fans could contact you directly. A picture and a song...meant instant booty!! Not me...but Yeah there were kats hooking up with chicks every nite of the week due to myspace. It was a fans dream come true. And Tila Tequelia(or however you spell her name) was the first chick expose'n the goods and landed as one of your first friends on myspace. This chick was bigger than Tom the founder of the site. This thing was huge...but it still hadn't gone main stream just yet.
To have a myspace page was the definitely the **it. Having a conversation with other artist who weren't on the up and up was somewhat gratifying. It's always a good feeling to be the kid with the latest toys on the block. And networking with digital distribution companies were on the rise. The middle man within the music industry would soon be out of a job and the music industry as you know it would cease to exist.
Chicks from all walks of life started to learn of myspace and...quick. Soon...chicks starting getting hip, running out to get a digital camera or using their new camera phone to post pix on myspace. And then it started to get real scandless. The honesty factor of posting a legit pix would soon be over. The really young chicks started locking into myspace and soon the buzz got really crazy. Soon every hood-chick, country bammer, web-hooker with a camera wanted to be a super model...wanted to be seen...wanted to be the next myspace chick with thousands of friends....even if she never left a note.
Things were getting pretty krayzee...Until some jackass created what they called myspace bots. These bots would generate faster ways of implementing friends into your network just to build "myspace friends"...and then the game changed. Soon myspace would make headlines on the 11'oclock news because kids are spending wayyyyy too much time in front of the computer doing nothing.Not to mention the freaks that were luring young little girls to their chat rooms. BUT THEN it got krayzier. After scolding their kids of this new myspace thing...the single moms and dads thought to themselves,"hey I can actually meet these women/men online?"
AND LADIES and GENTLEMEN that's when **it hits the fan...I do mean literally!
Soon mothers....families...daughters...army dudes....dads..dads and their kids....people who had nothing to do with music...comedians....people who thought they were funny....wanna be models....the nerd....the self-proclaimed author...the neighbor...the channel 7 news guy ....the cashier at Wendy's.....and now the main stream signed record label deal artist wants to get in on the act. AND GUESS WHAT? It's no longer any fun!!
LATER...Myspace is bought by NewsCorp for millions. Changed for the somewhat worse. You see ...being underground is the **it. Once everyone knows about something...it's all down hill from there. Flashing banners....Movie Previews...It's an advertisers dream come true.
...and then came along the others...Facebook. LinkedIn. MiGente. But the for the record I think BlackPlanet was first....I even had shut that one down...but that's anutha story.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
...a transmission to the future.
Shumato's log....01062008...monday morning. The western hemisphere of the united states, as you might've known it, has just come out of a weekend of rain and the rain makes me sad at times....BUT as I ....glance outside the window through a slight opening through the shutters of my 3 story condo/apartment complex...I view the leaves and branches of nearby trees swaying in the calm morning winds... and a blue sky in which I haven't seen the likes of in 3 days. I can imagine morning commuters in L.A. driving with a sigh of relief knowing that this mornings weather will provide a somewhat smoother commute than it's been over the course of the week because there is no rain. Otherwise I'd be on my knees praying for those pour souls who make that more than hour long commute to their jobs...in the rain. I dont know what the weather is gonna be like for the entire day...I really dont care. I'll probably be in doors for most of the day returning calls and emails. You see....I work from home. :-)
If I'm correct it's only 6 days into the new year of 2008. I might be off a day because I dont have a calendar posted in my bedroom to give me the exact date...and my mind doesnt feel like calculating backwards what day the first landed on.....which reminds me ...I have to pick up a new calendar ....immediately.
The latest news of 2008 ....it may be a bit premature to say...but it looks as if the United States may see it's first Black President(if you're in the future...you're saying damn how did he know). Obama has definitely got my vote. Why?!? .... The people want change....not to mention...he's managed to capture the attention of the young peeps. Something no president has done in quite a while. People talk about what the baby-boomers want...and how their votes will matter the most...WHY does what the baby-boomers want matters?....if anything they've managed to do a fine job at the slow destruction of our environment...so I say enough of the old grey haired white men in office...let a man (not only a black man) but a man who will be symbol of change in America become the leader of our "oh so great" nation. At least we'd have the chance to call ourselves great again.
Ok. enough about that....actually not really...but If I continue it will cover my entire blog for the day....SO...
Dairy products are higher than ever in 2008. A half gallon of milk will run you at least $4.09...and that's lactose free....or is it?!? They'd sale us cow boo-boo literally if they could...disguised as ..."the new nutrient" in capsule form....lol!....laugh...because it's true. Well as of 2008 my system is so jacked up that I cant even drink so called lactose free milk anymore....so Vanilla Soy here I come...I can now enjoy cereal and homemade milkshakes without running off to the bathroom in a panic. :-)
One of the new laws passed for California this year: smoking while driving with a minor in the car can result in a fine. Go figure. From what I understand....an officer cant pull you over for that, but if he pulls you over for other violations and just happen to notice that you've been puffing away with that kid in the car seat in your SUV....that ass will get a fine.
When i first read of this new law... I thought to myself...and said..."self...you have to figure out how to get a law passed and act on it immediately!" Can you believe the laws that people will lobby to get passed these days? How about staying on the Tobacco Industry for making cigarettes in the first place?
Ok...what else...Oh yeah....
The writers guild is still on strike. Good for them! I hope they get what they deserve ...and then some......
The law was passed in California for those annoying cell phone drivers.
I have one thing to say "SHUT UP & DRIVE" ...no one and I do mean no one is that great multi-tasker...it's dangerous and should be banned altogether!
You know ....it's 2008...... there are still no flying cars..... Live Streaming-Video-phones aren't as popular as they should. .....we're(THE U.S.)is still dependent on oil & gas from foreign trades....The U.S. is BRoKE and cant afford to front any longer ...Hybrids are too pricey.....Solar energy isn't powering up every home...Polar bears and penguins will soon be extinct...and 60 some'n year old Stallone is still making RAMBO flicks ......WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?!...
If you are in the future and reading this...understand these things: We once lived in a time when good old fashioned values worked. Even though we could'nt see him,God was first in our lives above all. Hard-times came and we still came out on top. But then some jerk decided that prayer in schools should be taken out...that the pledge of allegiance wasn't necessary...that being Rich was the most important thing in life...that same sex marriages are great for society even if they cant produce natural offsprings...that education in the U.S. isn't a priority...that loans and credit scores makes the person...so thus... hell on earth began. There were those of us who might've attempted to prevent what was to come...but failed miserably or was taken out before their time. The people then conditioned and began to live in fear. The generations had nothing solid to pass on ...and our earth would soon see it's last days. It's inevitable....and I leave with a quote "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
-Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.-
This is Dr. Shumato...you say tomato ...i say potaetoe....please stop by more often...as even I dont know what I'm gonna babble about....
peace-
If I'm correct it's only 6 days into the new year of 2008. I might be off a day because I dont have a calendar posted in my bedroom to give me the exact date...and my mind doesnt feel like calculating backwards what day the first landed on.....which reminds me ...I have to pick up a new calendar ....immediately.
The latest news of 2008 ....it may be a bit premature to say...but it looks as if the United States may see it's first Black President(if you're in the future...you're saying damn how did he know). Obama has definitely got my vote. Why?!? .... The people want change....not to mention...he's managed to capture the attention of the young peeps. Something no president has done in quite a while. People talk about what the baby-boomers want...and how their votes will matter the most...WHY does what the baby-boomers want matters?....if anything they've managed to do a fine job at the slow destruction of our environment...so I say enough of the old grey haired white men in office...let a man (not only a black man) but a man who will be symbol of change in America become the leader of our "oh so great" nation. At least we'd have the chance to call ourselves great again.
Ok. enough about that....actually not really...but If I continue it will cover my entire blog for the day....SO...
Dairy products are higher than ever in 2008. A half gallon of milk will run you at least $4.09...and that's lactose free....or is it?!? They'd sale us cow boo-boo literally if they could...disguised as ..."the new nutrient" in capsule form....lol!....laugh...because it's true. Well as of 2008 my system is so jacked up that I cant even drink so called lactose free milk anymore....so Vanilla Soy here I come...I can now enjoy cereal and homemade milkshakes without running off to the bathroom in a panic. :-)
One of the new laws passed for California this year: smoking while driving with a minor in the car can result in a fine. Go figure. From what I understand....an officer cant pull you over for that, but if he pulls you over for other violations and just happen to notice that you've been puffing away with that kid in the car seat in your SUV....that ass will get a fine.
When i first read of this new law... I thought to myself...and said..."self...you have to figure out how to get a law passed and act on it immediately!" Can you believe the laws that people will lobby to get passed these days? How about staying on the Tobacco Industry for making cigarettes in the first place?
Ok...what else...Oh yeah....
The writers guild is still on strike. Good for them! I hope they get what they deserve ...and then some......
The law was passed in California for those annoying cell phone drivers.
I have one thing to say "SHUT UP & DRIVE" ...no one and I do mean no one is that great multi-tasker...it's dangerous and should be banned altogether!
You know ....it's 2008...... there are still no flying cars..... Live Streaming-Video-phones aren't as popular as they should. .....we're(THE U.S.)is still dependent on oil & gas from foreign trades....The U.S. is BRoKE and cant afford to front any longer ...Hybrids are too pricey.....Solar energy isn't powering up every home...Polar bears and penguins will soon be extinct...and 60 some'n year old Stallone is still making RAMBO flicks ......WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?!...
If you are in the future and reading this...understand these things: We once lived in a time when good old fashioned values worked. Even though we could'nt see him,God was first in our lives above all. Hard-times came and we still came out on top. But then some jerk decided that prayer in schools should be taken out...that the pledge of allegiance wasn't necessary...that being Rich was the most important thing in life...that same sex marriages are great for society even if they cant produce natural offsprings...that education in the U.S. isn't a priority...that loans and credit scores makes the person...so thus... hell on earth began. There were those of us who might've attempted to prevent what was to come...but failed miserably or was taken out before their time. The people then conditioned and began to live in fear. The generations had nothing solid to pass on ...and our earth would soon see it's last days. It's inevitable....and I leave with a quote "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
-Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.-
This is Dr. Shumato...you say tomato ...i say potaetoe....please stop by more often...as even I dont know what I'm gonna babble about....
peace-
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