LyinDan
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12/19/2008 6:04:20 PM
Kev, come back!!!
Dude, I never insulted you. Sorry about those meanies. You can come back just for me. And Janie. OK? And Steve Ison, I know for a fact he misses you already.
But if you don't, I guess we'll all know you just couldn't take it. I understand. Many's the time I said about various online communities, "Good God! These guys are a buncha assholes!" Yes, I have. But I stuck around anyway, because, if I leave, THEY win. And we can't have that. So, comon.
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Kevin White
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12/19/2008 7:56:08 PM
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lol ... like I could ignore this thread?
More than most, LD, YOU understand that "taking it" was never a concern ... I'm a net vet ... you know the back story; so you were baiting a reply?
Since my departure, I've had my manhood challenged, my motivations questioned, my sensitivities played on ... my life derided ... and all I was doing was making a point: It is easy to change the channel when the air gets noxious. It's a little ironic, is it not? IAC should pay attention ... at their own peril of ignoring it.
It's not my business, though, so they can do whatever the hell they want.
The universal THEY are not a concern. I pretty much got over what other people thought about me by grade school. Heck, I've been balding since my early twenties. Now that I'm older, most everyone I know has caught up. But imagine having to deal internally w/ that reality at that tender, "hoping to mate" age? One learns to discern what really counts ... for one's top hair leaving the body as of that point is quite disconcerting. lol ...
It worked out as best as humanly possible in that regard. I mean as best as humanly possible.
The unknowing THEY can win all the useless battles they want. It's a big world, and there are meaningful things and meaningless things ... and the net isn't a good schoolhouse for such lessons. It's distorted.
MY THING is ALL about music, and that's exactly where I decided to focus my energies ... not arguing about who Choosy Susie is ... which, TO ME, never mattered an iota (although after the balls she displayed adding me to her song list, I have newfound great respect ... anon/human she/he/it is). Nor does liking my voice. That stuff doesn't matter much. Most seem to plow forward nonetheless ... as they should.
Part of what bothered in the noise I turned off was my own distractions from what I felt mattered. So I decided to return to basics: doing music.
I put nose back to grindstone, and in the last few days have completed several new mixes toward my next release. I'm getting work done versus frittering time away in amusing side discussions. I don't have a lot of spare time ... so how I allot it is critical to what I can accomplish.
I meant no harm, no foul, and no slight by my departure ... my life's work has been about helping people in the worst of times in their life.
But I'm resolute in my respite. I merely exited to make point, and to devote more time to what I consider most important: the art.
I would caution some of the lovely folks here to lighten up on the taunt and goad, no matter how amusing play it might be. IAC members, like the public at large, have varying depths of skin toughness ... so all one might be doing is offending, versus entertaining.
But this is, at heart, the best intentioned of places, for it is about music and its artists, and so deserves enthusiastic support.
I am not gone, and hopefully won't be forgotten. I will be more quiet though, as I redirect my attentions to what I need for myself.
I will hang around, although less, and I will truly attempt to be less smug. It'll be my new year's resolution.
And, in the true spirit of the holidays:
Peace, innate, at home, I wish to all.
Best,
Kev-
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Kevin White
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12/19/2008 9:51:10 PM
---- Updated 12/19/2008 9:53:42 PM
I'll relate a home story, Sam ... before a fade back to my life.
I peruse all internet boards of interest, even though I withheld comment from the pipeline, for obvious reason ... until LD's direct billboard.
In the process, I found "Choosy Susie's" add of one of my songs to her station ... and looked in accordingly.
It was flat out hysterical. I don't care about how hard I'm arguing with someone. If they say or do something funny in the middle of a heated blowup, I am going to belly laugh.
Funny is funny ... and that shit was balls out funny. What gumption!
So I played the lineup in Susie's station open air in the kitchen tonight, as we had the family Xmas cookie baking underway, and I thought it interesting backdrop for the event.
My wife's comment on the lineup?
Larree's song stood out in the crowd.
It doesn't mean anything outside of her opinion, but ... it's a mention.
Best,
Kev-
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Conversation Suicide
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12/19/2008 10:20:43 PM
Cool to have you back Kev -- we've all been tested by some of the folks on IAC a time or two, no big whoop.
Just be you.
Focus on MUSIC is good! I continually remind myself of that when I practice solo, write music, or play with the band members 3-4 times per week. IAC is nice, but it can be addictive, and unproductive. However, in one of my posts I mentioned that it would be most awesome indeed if one of the bigies like Pete Towshend showed up in this pipeline from time to time. But I was actually alluding to the fact that if WE were one of the SUCCESSFUL Indie Artists, like Pete & many others, we wouldn't have TIME for all this bloggin' ...
Jesse gave the BEST response, pointing out that if one of us up in here DOES become successful, DON'T forget where you came from. Drop in from time to time.
Kevin, glad to see you didn't let the bullshit keep you from stoppin' by.
-pHLeGm
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