One of the things that amazes me the most about technology is how easy it has become to perform almost any type of art and get it out there seriously. For example, anyone can choose to put their own tracks on Itunes and recieve any revenue they may attain. Radiohead has shown us that anyone who has the ability to get attention and a catchy musical writing ability can easily see results from the individual, not required to please some label, but done even in leasure or just for the heck of it. Also, via the ads on this blog itself, I found websites were you can write and publish a book comepletely electronically, without any need to find a publisher. Again, this is a completely individual level thing, were you only have to impress the people, not requiring someone to back it in any way, like a label or publishing house. There is also clothing design, which I'm sure most are already familiar with. These services, at there basic level, are almost always free, and the only down side is that the buyer sees a slight (or not so slight) price markup. This seems a small price to pay to wear or listen to something more exactly what you want, and is especially small for the clothing designer, author, and recording artist who has a full time job elsewhere.

It has been a while since I last posted on here, mostly due to that fact that I had exams this week and since then been all over the place. I am finally settling down.

I have decided to take on the minor but thoughtful hobby of "frankensteining" my electric guitar, as I like to call it. In more and more ways, I am beginning to enjoy doing things in a homemade way. Most of the music I have been listening to more recently is very raw and less produced feeling. For those who have been reading, I also discovered the are of steampunk, which is inspiring. I love to not spend money, and recently I had the idea of browsing ebay and looking for low priced nicer quality random parts for my guitar, regardless of if they naturally fit it. I think I am really going to enjoy tinkering with this. It seems they are continually coming out with new guitar models that resemble the destroyed personalized guitars of rock and roll legends, and I figure its cooler to have a personally personalized guitar that a copy of a personalized guitar.

I also recently got ahold of an old beat up Harmony hollow body guitar, and I am thinking about trying to do something with it as well. It's pretty beaten up, but I want to experiment with it, seeing and it is so beautiful and harmony guitars are really coming back into style in many areas. Well, this is nothing like the normal, but that's a great way to be, I'll try and keep ya updated...