Gno Schitt

Not to mention she is hot!

... but totally aware of what she was doing, which is pretty cool. It's not like she thinks she is going platinum or something. I like the Girl + Pizza + Beer visual sub-text of the faux video... (as the joke goes, she turns into a sixpack and a large pizza after you are done right guys?)

Was reading an article in Future Music the other day by a hip hop producer goes by the name of Sway. He was talking about how it has become "disturbingly easy" now to produce glossy garbage with even mediocre equipment. That now anybody with enough money that wants to be a pop-star, is; that "promoting" has become a finer art than "performing".

Regardless of all that my productivity of late has recently slowed down dramatically on the creative sound front, as I seek to try different things each time I sit down now, and find it hard to "work inside the lines" so to speak.

What has got me really excited recently, is the growing number of artists who are sharing (NIN, Fort Minor) or selling (McLaughlan, Moby) parts of their music or creative body of work, for the masses to edit/mix/resample. I stand by my prediction that within another decade you will be able to buy an album by your favorite artist and it will come with both mixed and unmixed material on it, so people can listen to the artists original vision, or create their own.

One day, I will sit with my grand-children and tell them about how when I was very young, you couldn't remix all your music, you had to listen to songs in only one version, at only one speed... they will gasp in awe of the absurdity of it. I will tell them about my lowly remix of an ancient Phil Collins track and they will think I'm making this stuff up.

But the facts are that I was here, and I was doing it soon as I possibly could, and even if lots of the work sucked (and some of it certainly did/does) I had lots of fun. I hope I'm granted the right to say that among the whole body of music I wrote, mixed, or played live, there were a few good bits in there somewhere. Aside from the pride I have in my family, nothing has made me feel better than when someone has said they understood even one part of one song that I put together, or really enjoyed some mix that I arranged.

So even if the future holds a thousand Ashley Simpson McPop Stars, and the viewership of AMERICAN Idol continues to surpass the CANADIAN voting numbers (which truly breaks my heart), I will always have the positive energy from the people I walked with, whether for some short spans or some very long stretches, through these years.

Sorry for going on like that - didn't see it coming when I started by telling the joke about the perfect wo... well you know the joke...

Peace Out to the whole crew, you all know how I feel about ya.