Confidence, Cohen

I need to meet new girls.

A Warm Place

First post in a long time.

I think it's time for a radical shift in direction.

My life has changed immensely in the past six months and I'm going to change this blog along with it.

No more cliche high school drama. No more whining. No more complaining.

Time to do a little growing up and write about something meaningful.

Life is beautiful and there's absolutely no reason to waste my time complaining about things that only I have the ability to change.

Thank You

Well they're officially dating. I think I probably won't be writing for awhile. Thanks for listening.

My Rights Versus Yours

Wow. Check this out. I may not have a lot of respect for wrestling as a whole, but this is ridiculous. Why does the media need to twist everything? Selling more stories does not make you fair and balanced.

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!

Internet is down at my house right now, so updates might be a bit sporadic for awhile here...not that they haven't been in the past, haha.

I've been really diving in to some research on the music industry lately, trying to decide why I feel the way I do about downloading music illegally. This really resonated with me, and I hope you guys think it's interesting too.

Artists like Saul Williams and Radiohead are determining the future of the music scene, and I can't wait to see where it ends up. I only hope more bands decide to follow their example, and I wish people would have caught on sooner.

Digital distribution is the future, whether record companies want to admit it or not. Steve Jobs has taken some baby steps in the right direction, with DRM free downloads from the iTunes store, but even those are imprinted with the username of the person downloading it.

Despite never having used it, OiNK really was the best thing to happen to the music scene. If recording companies had put their considerable political and financial muscle behind developing something like it early on in the game, ie when Napster was still around, they easily could've pushed Napster and other lookalikes out of the filesharing arena simply by offering a better, faster, service.

Shiksa (Girlfriend)

Last night we went to a Halloween party and she freaked out. It was in Uptown and it was a group of D's friends who we didn't know at all. We were walking down the stairs towards the party and she disappeared. I figured she had gone to some other part of the apartment but when none of us had seen her in a half hour or so we went looking.

Turns out she was back in the car because she was too scared to mingle. It's times like this when I wish we were dating the most, so I could take her in my arms and tell her that it's ok to be scared sometimes and that I would never hold it against her.

But we're not together.

And neither are her and D, apparently. Despite her profile changing, her texting D and calling him her boyfriend, and telling her sister about it, and the fact that I'm 99% sure they fooled around last night. She claims they're not together and I have to take her at her word I guess.

We're drinking at her house tomorrow and I'm scared. I really don't want anything to happen but I just can't say no. I almost hope I get sick so I don't have to worry about it.

Call to Arms

Angels and Airwaves is, in my opinion, one of the most criminally underrated bands in the modern music scene. People are so afraid to open up to something new, that they dismiss it as crap the second they hear it. It took me awhile to open up to Tom DeLonge's new band, especially after being such a huge Blink182 fan for almost 10 years now. Once I did, I realized that AVA really is something special...someone trying to create something truly unique and amazing in a scene that's plagued by repetitive and overused cliches. Unbelievable stuff. I'm listening to I-Empire as I write this and it's quite possibly a contender for album of the year.