time to get all political on your behinds.
a couple of months ago, i became aware of 'the impending oil crisis'. my end of innocence culminated in the viewing of a movie called 'the end of suburbia' . research this, or don't...i don't really feel like going into huge detail, except that apparently the entire planet's dumbassedry refuses to acknowledge that oil (ie. gasoline...you know, that stuff you put in your car or your plane or your boat to make it go 'vroom vroom') is a finite resource. we will run out, and rather soon at that...and it's not going to end at, 'oh no, i can't go on road trips anymore.' it will get lots worse than that. it's all incredibly doom-and-gloom and left me with little to no faith in humanity. my efforts to talk to others about it either ended in comments like, 'it sucks, the world is going to hell' or, 'meh, we'll figure out a way...alternative energy and all that. i have to go buy another car and move to north of the 407 now. peace out.'
i walked around in this sort of disaster goggle haze for a few days...you know that scene at the beginning of terminator 2, after that crazy apocalyptic nuclear attack? the burning playground? that's pretty much how i was looking at the world. corner of bathurst and college? burnination. queen's park? burnination. hamilton? burnination (insert snarky comment about hamilton being better off here).
i eventually got over it. i now snarl even more at suvs and comfort myself in that i am actually able to walk to work...not even burning ttc energy! i am so super cool!
but yeah, then there's the whole 'i want to be a working musician' thing.
being a musician essentially means you HAVE to have a car, unless you play the thumb piano (there's this girl called laura barrett who does just that...not really my bag, but she's got the right idea with the portability of her instrument). now that i have this heavy amp, guitar, and band to go along with it, vehicles are a necessity in terms of getting to rehersals and to shows. not to mention the whole 'going on tour' thing. i can't think of many bigger wastes of gasoline for an up and coming band...driving thousands of kilometres just so you can play to a crappy bar in kelowna b.c. to several inatentive snowboarders (that anecdote is courtesy of joel plaskett - i have never actually experienced that myself).
i am also guilty of 2 roadtrips of north america. we're talking about 30,000 kms collectively. i saw many beautiful things, and i also saw crap like this:
that might be dryden, ontario. delightful town.
so yeah, i've wasted a fair amount of gas in my day, and if my music career goes where i hope it might, i will be wasting a whole lot more. i'm full of poop.
for some reason blogger decided to erase the second half of this entry, so i will just hit that publish button, and leave my second half of this for later...it's essentially about how the conservative government is stupid. groundbreaking work, really.
a couple of months ago, i became aware of 'the impending oil crisis'. my end of innocence culminated in the viewing of a movie called 'the end of suburbia' . research this, or don't...i don't really feel like going into huge detail, except that apparently the entire planet's dumbassedry refuses to acknowledge that oil (ie. gasoline...you know, that stuff you put in your car or your plane or your boat to make it go 'vroom vroom') is a finite resource. we will run out, and rather soon at that...and it's not going to end at, 'oh no, i can't go on road trips anymore.' it will get lots worse than that. it's all incredibly doom-and-gloom and left me with little to no faith in humanity. my efforts to talk to others about it either ended in comments like, 'it sucks, the world is going to hell' or, 'meh, we'll figure out a way...alternative energy and all that. i have to go buy another car and move to north of the 407 now. peace out.'
i walked around in this sort of disaster goggle haze for a few days...you know that scene at the beginning of terminator 2, after that crazy apocalyptic nuclear attack? the burning playground? that's pretty much how i was looking at the world. corner of bathurst and college? burnination. queen's park? burnination. hamilton? burnination (insert snarky comment about hamilton being better off here).
i eventually got over it. i now snarl even more at suvs and comfort myself in that i am actually able to walk to work...not even burning ttc energy! i am so super cool!
but yeah, then there's the whole 'i want to be a working musician' thing.
being a musician essentially means you HAVE to have a car, unless you play the thumb piano (there's this girl called laura barrett who does just that...not really my bag, but she's got the right idea with the portability of her instrument). now that i have this heavy amp, guitar, and band to go along with it, vehicles are a necessity in terms of getting to rehersals and to shows. not to mention the whole 'going on tour' thing. i can't think of many bigger wastes of gasoline for an up and coming band...driving thousands of kilometres just so you can play to a crappy bar in kelowna b.c. to several inatentive snowboarders (that anecdote is courtesy of joel plaskett - i have never actually experienced that myself).
i am also guilty of 2 roadtrips of north america. we're talking about 30,000 kms collectively. i saw many beautiful things, and i also saw crap like this:
that might be dryden, ontario. delightful town.so yeah, i've wasted a fair amount of gas in my day, and if my music career goes where i hope it might, i will be wasting a whole lot more. i'm full of poop.
for some reason blogger decided to erase the second half of this entry, so i will just hit that publish button, and leave my second half of this for later...it's essentially about how the conservative government is stupid. groundbreaking work, really.
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