Lamp Light > Cassette Tapes
Ok, since I’m at home and nobody else is (bwa hahaha) I have lots of time to think about random things. But then again, I always have time for that I suppose. Anyway, i was thinkging last night about something very important to me (not really) and that is: lamp light. I have decided that everything is better when the lighting where you are is provided by lamp lights. The main reason for this i determined must be because it really only occurs in the home (a cool place) or maybe a small coffee shopy place (also a nice place). Since both these places are comforting, a connotation arises between lamp light and feeling warm and toasty (as an 80year old might say). Anyway, think of the nasty lighting at a place like the grocery store, makes you feel distressed does it not? Now, how cool would it be if places like the grocery store adopted lamp lighting? Maybe one at each end of the aisle and one in the middle. I think this would make for a much more pleasing shopping experience. Airports also could do with some lamps. Anyway, that’s what I say… down with overhead lighting.
I also was thinking about MP3’s. So, everybody knows (hopefully) that cassette tapes have kind of become old-hat after the invention of CD’s. And everybody also knows that CD’s are sort of moving out of the way for MP3’s to become the next, main form of music distribution. (Sort of still transitioning) So, cassette tapes these days are worth next to nothing yes? (I’m sure you have been into a gas station with one of those cassette trees where they all cost 50cents and they all happen to be by Billy Ray Cyrus) Anyway, this is part of an ‘upside-down arc’ as i guess we could call it for any form of music technology. Take the record for example: First, it is ‘the’ way to listen to music (start of arc)…then comes the cassette and it is rendered useless and worthless. (bottom of arc) Wait a couple of years and then magically it’s all stylish and cool and once again is somewhat costly.(other top-side of arc) The cassette these days is at the bottom of the arc, as in it’s worth next to nothing. But I’d say in maybe like 10 years it will be really ‘cool’ again and start costing more as it makes it’s way up the arc. Then of course the CD will start to drop in value as the MP3 continues its reign. BUT! what happens when the MP3 gets replaced by another form? It can’t really be resold like old CD’s, you can’t exactly have a yard sale and put out your old Mp3 collection. It seems to me that the MP3 doesn’t have an arc, just more of a cliff it’s going to fall off as soon as the next big thing comes along. What that will be I have noooo idea, maybe it will be invisible.
Anyway, this is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake at night…or at least last night. And I’m pretty sure it wasn’t these thoughts, more the nasty jet-lag that kept me awake. And I know you can’t start sentences with ‘And’, who really cares, seriously.
-alex
hey today is my 21st birthday!
