“Satisfied”

Hold onto me
And you’ll never be lost
I have wrapped myself around you
Pour into me
And you’ll always be full
I will overflow into you

I reach out for you in the dark
And find my own heartbeat
My tall drink of water on a warm summer night
I’m satisfied.

Lean into me
And I’ll never fall
I have rooted myself in you

I reach out for you in the dark
And find my own heartbeat
My tall drink of water on a warm summer night
I’m satisfied.
I’m satisfied.

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Congratulations again, friends! I love you guys.

Love and tributes to it,
=j.lynn

-Facebook suggestions are failing. Failing so HARD.

Wow. Audio is way outta sync. Thanks, YouTube “record from webcam!”

Hard drive crashes and other technical woes led me to explore what data I still DO have access to… I found a handful of old live clips from 2002 of my former band, Mad at Gravity. Funny trip down memory lane. Now I’m kinda inspired to dig for more footage…

Clip 1, South Carolina
Clip 2, South Carolina
Clip 3, South Carolina
Clip 4, Maine
Clip 5, Maine

Love and floppy mops,
=j.lynn

My big lazy girl snores like a lumberjack. She doesn’t even need to fall asleep.

That's good packing!

Rented U-Haul box truck. Truck tows trailer. Trailer contains full-size pickup truck. Pickup contains motorcycle.

Love and Russian dolls,
=j.lynn

from RELEVANTmagazine.com

This is my reaction to THIS ARTICLE, taken from Relevant Magazine online. If you feel like reading on, please read the original article first…

I started with a comment on the article, which grew a bit too long. Things grew, and I wound up here… BLOGGING. 2003-style. Soo… Enjoy my brainpuke?

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The article is all just a bit short-sighted in my opinion. It feels like our author is just naively trying to justify his Limewire library. Very few of his sources really apply to the specific realities of the music industry; Only an idealized notion of something that would be great if it actually worked.

Radiohead has the luxury of giving their music away for free only because the OLD system already made them famous. Plain and simple. There would be no “Weird Fishes” without “Creep.”

The fact of the matter is that we have yet to see any new, emerging artists make any sort of acceptable living while giving away the fruits of their labor for free.

Arguing that record labels should embrace “sideloading” as great promotion is a bit self-defeating. Labels exist to sell recordings. If they give everything away in the hopes of generating a buzz, then all they’ve done is make a band famous at their own expense. And they close up shop.

Granted, it can be said that the age of the record label is gone anyhow. Their function is essentially to help make artists known through their promotional budgets in exchange for the profits from the sale of their recordings. Musicians then actually make their living via live performances and merchandise sales. Or by licensing their intellectual property for use in import car commercials and/or silly dragon movies.

Unless you’re Creed (what a reunion, eh?), these merchandising/licensing revenues are nowhere near enough for an emerging artist to make rent with. I’d love to believe that fans care enough to support the arts that move them of their own “free-will” (nyuk nyuk), but I have yet to see it. All the talented artisans I know are scraping gas and ramen money together from city to city while touring on their vacation time away from “normal” jobs.

I understand the point that an actual digital recording could potentially serve as the “loss-leader” that hopefully motivates fans to see an artist live (maybe even buying a t-shirt while they’re there), but this is also a bit of a stretch. How many concerts have you been to in the past year? How much of those artists’ merchandise did you purchase? Now compare that with how many songs you have in your Limewire library, and it becomes evident that the average person is gonna have to make a LOT more trips out to see live shows before the math adds up.

Five years from now, smug articles will be written about why feature films “should” be free. Ten years from now, why attending professional sports games “should” be free. And everyone who watches said “free” films and games will whine about the amount of ads and product placement in them.

We’ve somehow become convinced that we’re ENTITLED to be moved, intellectually stimulated, and othewise entertained. “Here we are now, entertain us!” I blame Kurt Cobain. Then again, I also blame Al Gore whenever my A/C goes out…

Love and the global warming that chokes out art,
=j.lynn

Seriously the awesomest…

Public servant? SFPD Officer Schwab (Badge #2099), you ARE a dick.

-It’s actually only “illegal” to skateboard in the STREET and in business districts in San Francisco. Daytime skating on residential sidewalks is perfectly legal. And even the street/after dark violation is only against TRAFFIC code (section 100).

-So this is kinda like an officer making fun of you after pulling you over for speeding (“Anyone have any Excedrin? Your boy looks like he has a headache,” etc…) then kicking you into the squad car after threatening to break your arm because you verbally stood up for yourself.

-THIS is why people call cops “pigs,” folks.