BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!!

Well I realized that no one wants to become an LJ member and myspace has too many distractions so I am now a blogspotter. Beside that's what's cool anyways :B I have recently become fascinated with MP3 blogs so I am going to try and make this fun by linking stuff I find (and stuff I post once my website is up). So as my first post I want to talk a little about Blogging. I am fascinated by this whole new trend. I have recently been have a conversation with lots of different people about how technology has made our lives very very different, from what they were say 5 - 25 years ago. Just think about cell phones alone. If you call someone and they don't answer you tend to get pissed because they always have there phone on them...remember when we got calls at home? And if someone was out they were out and it was tough shit figure another plan out. How about cable and "news stations" like CNN, CNBC, FOXnews, etc. News has become so irrelevant for the most part, in order to fill time. Newspapers have been going digital and all that jazz. Whatever, this is not to say I hate technology, obviously I love it or I wouldn't be writing a "Blog" at all. Things i really do enjoy about technology and am glad to have been a part of the history of... Video games: I am so glad to have gotten into video games at there beginning. Sure, I suppose being born in 82 (yes I was a Reagan baby) makes me not exactly ground floor with pong in the mid seventies and the arcade popularizing in the late seventies along with Atari, but for the most part video games were the wave of the early eighties. I got an NES in 86 and it was my favorite thing ever back then. I remember my dad getting the legend of Zelda for my mom and we ended up being the ones to play through it ( my mom deserves big ups for discovering the warp zone in Super Mario Brothers, at the end of level 1-2 she was all "can I jump up on top there?" and dad and I were like" no just go in that pipe" so she tries it anyway and makes it... we were dumbfounded) So yeah seeing the Sega/Nintendo race and taking sides, Turbo Graphix 16, Playstations, seeing systems die out (neo geo, jaguar, the aforementioned TG16, even Virtua-boy), Next-gen systems, all of it is so incredible to me. I could seriously talk about this forever. So...I am also a huge fan of MP3's and the digital music revolution...which is really the topic I sort of started with. I think that digital music is the best thing that has ever happen to the music industry. It really gives us as artists a chance to expose ourselves, and as fans a chance to really show what we are actually interested in. Sites like mp3.com, myspace.com, audiogalaxy.com, garageband.com, all gave us a chance to show our stuff to people everywhere. Not that that many people are going to discover my little punk band from bumblefuck, but if one person gets exposed to us and really likes it that means the world to some of us. One example of this happened very recently to me... My old band, Are you my mother, has a myspace site and a girl from Seattle e-mailed us and told us that she really loved the 4 songs we had posted on the site. She had even made one of them her profile song. Anyway Ben (our guitar player) e-mailed her back sayin "if you are a real person not some ad" we would send her a CD. Well she responded that she was indeed "real" and that she would love a cd, but that she was worried that we would stalk her. Well I wrote back and assured her that I live on the other side of the country and that the chances of me going 3000 miles to stalk her were pretty slim, and thus she sent me her address. I mailed her a copy of the cd and she wrote me back recently about how much she loves it and how she played it at a party and everyone was like "who is this band!?!? They are AWESOME!!" Which was totally rad to me. Now the purpose of that band was strictly to have fun and prove that you could play in a band even if you were not a virtuoso (I know that the punks already did this in the late 70's, but I am sure I will talk about this subject in a later blog) So for us the best part of playing was giving others enjoyment (as well as ourselves). So for this correspondence to have occurred was really exciting for me. SO in conclusion Technology is not all bad (especially MP3's and Video Games) some technological advances are annoying (chirp phones) and I like blogging...wait that is a lame ass way to end my first blog...So I will end it with a good picture I took and some links to some of my friends good bands on myspace (including my own), and some other good links… ;)
LOVE,
james

My stuff

THE REVEREND JAMES BEAUTiFUL
this is my solo project


Are You My Mother
This is my old band as mentioned above


I took this on a camera phone!
Bitter Sweethearts

These are the dudes i live with. They are lazy assholes when it comes to anything but music. They rock the fuck out and are smarter then you. I love these guys even though they are dicks.

I didn't take this picture
The Teeth
These are some great dudes that have been friends with us for a long time They play great quirky pop rock songs but rip it up live!