Television is responsible for taking the masses apart, piece by piece, so they will continue their slavery in the hope that things will one day change. Well, nothing will change, ever, until one drops that which is binding to them, that which blocks off and keeps them away from becoming who and what they are and were meant to be since childhood. There is no reason to abandon dreams. Choose a dream to live and live it!

Learn how to be alone and quiet.

I think it is time to expand a bit. I am not looking to change anything but me. I see, in my age, troubling signs for the future. I see too much of one thing and not enough of what truly matters. First, opinions about music videos and whether someone likes them or not is a waste of life and a waste of time. I simply do not care what people think of music. Music is what you make of it, just like life. In life, we all have choices. We can be like him or her and moan and groan about our job, our bills, etc... and then keep getting up to do the same thing again with the same result. It's a trap and it will eat your soul away and whiddle you down to nothing. You will get old and wish you did it differently. The time is right now to let go of everything that brings you pain or sorrow or hardship. It's time to restructure our thinking, our perceptions, our way of understanding the larger picture. The fact is, we need more poets, more creators of majic, more expansion into the unknown, more of what makes us the individuals we all are. What is it that makes you who you are? Show me, tell me, talk to me about it. I don't want to hear about your job, money... nothing, but you. Because it is you who is important and it is you who can become whatever you want. Don't be defined by your status. Be defined for your love and appreciation for the life you have and the freedoms you enjoy. I say, exploit that freedom. Use it! But hurt nobody or anything. If you have something to tell someone, make sure there is an uplifting quality to the words you choose to use.

There is without question linkages between what is on television (fake life, secondary life), music (tone creates energies, thoughts, emotions in human beings), politics (deception, lies) and the real world. In many ways, the fictional world makes up a significant proportion of every activity generated by the masses. Yes, exceptions are real and true for some people who see and understand these deceptions and linkages. But this kind of a study never really ends and is always in need of being updated. Unfortunately, the pull of television and movies and other things like sports and entertainment pull us all away (with fiction and the perceptions derived from said fiction) from our free thinking selves. In essence then, for a significant and measurable proportion of the population in this country there is mass amounts of influences that are literally designed to remove folks from who and what they are in their real lives. Opinions and perceptions come together in a cohesive bundle of deception. I mean, real life is work, paying bills, dealing with things as they come... and so on and so forth. Yet many of us hate the real world realities we slave ourselves out for so we can have money to pay for things we were told we need (taxes, mortgages, got to pay the banks because they own everything you have: house, cars, etc... until later in life when you pay them all off, sell, travel for a spell, gamble some, and then age out and die with everything you have ever earned being used by family, sold by family, or simply squandered by family, friends, or strangers. By the time it's all over, you will have spent almost 1/3 of your entire life working to make someone else more money. Make your own music. Be your own person and recognize the pure evil that surrounds us all.

Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow

The B-52's - "Rock Lobster" (Countdown 1980)

Everybody should get lost in their darkness at least once. The odds are nothing will happen unless your natural tendency is to take things too far right from the beginning. No! It is something you ease into more than anything else because little by little everything changes... even the food tastes different.