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- Around the World - Daft Punk [ from the "Homework" album | video ]
- Satellite - Nicolay [ from the "City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya" album ]
- Saturday Night - Nicolay [ from the "City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya" album ]
- *I.G.Y. - Donald Fagen [ from the "The Nightfly" album ]
- Sky Safari - Jonn Serrie [ from the "Flightpath" album ]
- Stranger - Electric Light Orchestra [ from the "Burning Bright" album ]
- Moonskater - Shadowfax [ from the "Esperanto" album ]
- Tomorrow's Girl - Donald Fagen [ from the "Kamakiriad" album | video ]
- More Red Than Red - Derek K. Miller [ from the "Penmachine Podcast" ]
- New Frontier - Donald Fagen [ from the "The Nightfly" album | video ]
- Flying Spiders of Babylon - Atomic Skunk [ from the "Binary Scenes" album ]
Snowbound - Donald Fagen [ from the "Kamakiriad" album ]
Spicy Sand - Electrix [ from the "Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 3 (Bonus Track Version)" album ]
Jack of Speed - Steely Dan [ from the "Two Against Nature" album ]
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When I first began putting this podcast together I had come to a point that I was taken a break from the social network world. I had become, well, sick of it all. My post was heading toward the "bleak" of the social medium but as always God always has a way of making me see thing clear and what is really the cause...it's me, it's you, it's how we have allowed some technology to sap the life from us.
The other day while on Facebook, (which I have come to loathe in so many ways) my photographer sister posted a YouTube link featuring Louis CK in which he's on the Conan O'Brien show and is talking about how how ungrateful we have become. As Louie puts it, "Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy". He hit the nail on the head. I even had fallen into that, "You owe me everything" kinda of phase. I truly dig comedians because they are truth-tellers.
The past couple of months I've been whining about how my cellphone provider has not provided the update to my brand of Android phone. Now I'm not given these companies a free pass when it comes to updates and I still feel that many times they delay some updates so we as consumers have to purchase a new phone in which then we would have to sign a new 2-year contract (unless you buy the phone new which you will pay an out of the wazoo for a phone that will depreciate quicker than driving a new automobile off a car dealer's lot). I now have Froyo and it's better but the battery now drains a little quicker but here is what I have forgotten. We now have phones that we can talk just about anywhere...ANYWHERE!
We now have televisions that not only have hundreds of channel but with some we can stream movies via internet to watch. He have automobiles with built in navigation systems in them. With all of these wonders many have become spoiled brats. We leave in a time now where many feel the world owes them everything and many haven't contributed anything to make many of these wonders come to past. When looking back I'm glad I did come up in the time of the digital changing age. I came up when Vinyl albums and 45s, cassette tapes and 8-track tapes. I remember that my uncle had a reel to reel tape deck. I remember watching movies on movie projectors at school.
I remember when we had to actually get up from our seat to change the channel on the television. I even remember black and white televisions. But I also remember when the first digital watch came along, the first Sony Walkman cassette/AM-FM portable player (it took 4 AA batteries), I remember having my first computers (Commodore 64 and 128), my first boom-box (it was a Sharp). I remember the first time I saw MTV and VH1 when visiting friends in Champaign, Illinois (the first video I watched on MTV, Billie Jean by Michael Jackson).
The other day while on Facebook, (which I have come to loathe in so many ways) my photographer sister posted a YouTube link featuring Louis CK in which he's on the Conan O'Brien show and is talking about how how ungrateful we have become. As Louie puts it, "Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy". He hit the nail on the head. I even had fallen into that, "You owe me everything" kinda of phase. I truly dig comedians because they are truth-tellers.
The past couple of months I've been whining about how my cellphone provider has not provided the update to my brand of Android phone. Now I'm not given these companies a free pass when it comes to updates and I still feel that many times they delay some updates so we as consumers have to purchase a new phone in which then we would have to sign a new 2-year contract (unless you buy the phone new which you will pay an out of the wazoo for a phone that will depreciate quicker than driving a new automobile off a car dealer's lot). I now have Froyo and it's better but the battery now drains a little quicker but here is what I have forgotten. We now have phones that we can talk just about anywhere...ANYWHERE!
We now have televisions that not only have hundreds of channel but with some we can stream movies via internet to watch. He have automobiles with built in navigation systems in them. With all of these wonders many have become spoiled brats. We leave in a time now where many feel the world owes them everything and many haven't contributed anything to make many of these wonders come to past. When looking back I'm glad I did come up in the time of the digital changing age. I came up when Vinyl albums and 45s, cassette tapes and 8-track tapes. I remember that my uncle had a reel to reel tape deck. I remember watching movies on movie projectors at school.
I remember when we had to actually get up from our seat to change the channel on the television. I even remember black and white televisions. But I also remember when the first digital watch came along, the first Sony Walkman cassette/AM-FM portable player (it took 4 AA batteries), I remember having my first computers (Commodore 64 and 128), my first boom-box (it was a Sharp). I remember the first time I saw MTV and VH1 when visiting friends in Champaign, Illinois (the first video I watched on MTV, Billie Jean by Michael Jackson).
I remember first getting my hands on the Apple G3, I thought I died and went to heaven. I remember seeing the artwork of Arthur Radebaugh, I downloaded as many images as I could. As a kid reading comic books and seeing sci-fi movies made me dream about an utopia world by the year 2000. The year 2000 has come and gone and much has changed but in some ways things have become worse. Racism is at an all time high. Although I love the artwork by Radebaugh in many of his work you don't see Blacks in this future and now that we have a Black president we see the hate for Blacks now more than ever. I love the line Louis CK says in another YouTube snippet from one of his comedy shows,
"Let me be clear...I'm not saying that White people are better...I'm just saying being White is clearly better." Classic.
But at the same time I'm realizing how blessed I am now. Think about this...I can make a podcast from my home, my home! Used to be a time if I wanted to do something like this I would have to rent time at an studio, have an engineer to mix the sound but now I with just a laptop, a microphone, audio software, a host site and you're good to go when it comes to sharing the music I love. If I wish to learn many things I can go on YouTube or order something from Amazon or instant message someone in regards to finding the answer to just about anything and as my photography sister mentioned to me, "...technology isn't all that bad. It's all in how you approach it. It enables us to get our stuff out there to people who enjoy what we do. So don't give up."
So what started as a negative and knock against technology and social network turned into something positive for me. Funny how when you keep your mind and heart open how God can bring certain people and music to me to make me realize that he has given me a gift to do the right thing with the wonders of technology. Like my sister, said, "It's all in how you approach it." I have always love technology and I can ever abandon it.
I could have just used Donald Fagen's albums "The Nightfly" and "Kamakiriad" to make this podcasts and maybe one day I will because those songs alone captures my feeling about how I viewed how the future would be but other tunes trickled into my brain as I thought about putting this together so as always, kick back, relax and enjoy the tunes.
~DarrenKeith
~DarrenKeith
This podcast was inspired by:
Arthur Radebaugh [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Radebaugh ]
Paleofuture [ http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/tag/arthur-radebaugh ]
PhillyVirgoLicious [ http://genxtraordinary.wordpress.com/ ]
Louis CK [ http://www.louisck.net/ ]
Donald Fagen [ his albums "Nightfly" and "Kamakiriad" ]
*I.G.Y. = International Geophysical Year
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