Birthday
It's my birthday, so anyone who stumbles upon the post, I request that you wish me a happy birthday. Seriously. If I find out that you skimmed through this post and didn't wish me a happy birthday, I'll probably kill myself.
My ego needs a little padding fellas. Hop to it.

I'm quite drunk at the moment so don't expect much or any cohesion in my entry.

Two comments:

New Years has always been a bit of a strange event for me. I've recently decided that it's built and promoted for a certain audience. That audience consist of people who live on a more strictly established day-to-day basis. To the people who live day-to-day the idea of beginning a-new is appealing, to everyone else, it's just unrealistic. There isn't any kind of negative judgment on the types who thrive on New Years, if anything I envy them, it's an opportunity for a new beginning, but I never really get much out of it.
For every year, as long as I can remember, my resolution has always just been to be the best person that I can be. Really, that's a pretty good resolution to make, but on a more practical level, I obviously break that resolution every now and then. We all would, but the point is I'm always trying my best. I try hard to be who I want to be, the problem is... I don't really know who I want to be. I just have some vague, abstract understanding of an idea that I want to be....

Needless to say, I very rarely satisfy my resolution.

The second thing I'd like to say is about the music industry. With the birth of the cd we also saw the death of singles. Since it cost just as much to produce an entire album as it did as single it just wasn't worth it to produce singles anymore except for collection purposes. With the rise of mp3 trading the idea of albums in general came into question. You could make all sorts of claims like how vinyl albums have increased in sales this year, but really those are all just trends. At this point it's to predict any kind of long-term repercussions but my prediction is that albums are more or less dead. Well, more specifically, the music industry as we know it is dead.
When I approached this idea I thought to myself "What would I do if I were a professional musician in this time?" My solution, I'd release single albums and downloads for free. The entire purpose of the singles and downloads would be to promote attendance at my live shows. With the state of music presently I think the most lucrative way to survive these days it through your live show.
I really think this is an interesting time in music. Downloadable music has practically made mp3s free, now the value of your ability can only really be expressed in a live show.

For the first time in years the only thing that will matter is how good of a show you put on. In my memory, money for musicians came from record/disc/cassette sales... but finally, for the first time in my lifetime, the things that actually matter will finally become important.

... I'm really curious as to how it'll play out...

Last comment.

The story of my birth goes something like this.
I was born early morning on the 10th of January. My father had to shovel the driveway during a horrible snowstorm just to drive my mother to the hospital. It was a shock to us all since I was a month early. I was pretty easy to deliver. I don't know if it's because my mother had already given birth to two, large children, but she always describes me as just having popped out. She jokes that the doctor had to catch me as I flew out, then I went straight to the incubator for a few days since I was horrible undersized and had a pretty severe cause of jaundice.
And then we all lives happily ever after... ... ... ... or something like that.

I'll be 22 when I wake up. How fucking scary is that?

Sweet dreams everyone.