Found a Great Blog

I just stumbled across a really great blog, "SPOZ's RANT". Found it from the Adelaide Index page. Here is link - http://spoz.blogspot.com

The dude writes really well and is good at details, the why's, has crazy good ideas etc etc and can articulate things well and has depth. I tried to subscribe to it in bloglines but fore some reason couldnt find a feed. Blog's like this make my dumb generalised ramblings seem handicapped. I tend to grasp overall ideas etc but not bother getting into the details and lose focus / attention. Maybe need more input, to read more, extend vocabulary, more depth.. anywho.. his blog is good go read it.

Heres a good post about Retro fashion revival from the Adelaide index:
http://www.adelaideblogs.com/index.php?messageID=233

"Here's a theory: throughout their lives, people mostly remember their teenage years and early twenties. People who control the content in the media are usually in their mid to late thirties or early forties. When these people run out of new ideas, they look to the period in their lives they remember the most."

Good call. Im all for fashion rehashing, yeah so its been done before its not original, so what get over it, everything is a copy of something else anyway to some extent. I can't understand the argument some people take about "things not being original" it seems more of a judgement call to me. If you get stuck on the idea of something not being original then you may miss out on a lot of good content just for the fact that you never really look into it. Take off your "same old shit" glasses for a while and look into it for yourself. Imagine you are 17 years old, an age where a lot of people follow trends/are interested due to peers/whatever.. Ok stay with me here. You are in the body of a 17 year old but you have infact been alive on the earth for 1000 years, you have seen it all experienced every trend etc. Do you think you would get into anything or be excited by anything at all? music, clothes? probably not.. everything you see presently is old news. So what do you do, you don't get into anything at all (i dunno possible playout). Imagine if you never got into anything at all when you were a teenager, or the bands you love now, you never even gave a second thought to because it was nothing new, whether it be the idea behind it, the sound, whatever. You would miss out BIG TIME and is that a good thing? So don't be hating on the "trendy" kids who don't know any better, you were perhaps one yourself at one stage? Did you know any better back then? For if you hate, you miss the point that for them it is exciting, fun, new.

Anyway my rant on that was pointless in itself, everyone has their own opinions and viewpoints on things, based on their own personal thoughts/beliefs, we all focus on different aspects of things, whatever we feel suits/works for us best. I just think the whole "original" argument to a certain extent (not talking about blatant rip offs here) is old and used by people stuck in their ways/too old to care. I am sure that when I get to the point where Im no longer looking into "new" music anymore and my kids listen to bands that sound like bands of my day I will be all like oh no, you think this is new? its not new you fool! But to my kids it may be the most excitingly new sounding music / freshest clothes they have experienced and is that excitement in itself a bad thing? Hell no it is not. I dont know and I guess will find out eventually but for now I don't want to disconnect myself from "new" bands or clothes even if they are based on past day occurances. Is bitching original? no, is copying original? no. Pretty much everything has been done before to some extent and the rehashing will continue forever. Accept this and move on.

I welcome any comments about this, I know I may be missing out on a lot of different viewpoints and am interested in what you think about this stuff. Parents with kids.. fill me in, what's it like? Am I missing the point entirely, if so let me know. All I can do is write from my own personal experience/views/opinions and since I'm only 22 I may be missing the wisdom/overalls/stale thoughts? that come with age.

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 12:36 PM