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« Reply #1458 on: 16 March 2009, 17:10:56 » |
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« Reply #1464 on: 17 March 2009, 06:07:34 » |
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It still doesn't mean you should act like a spoiled baby about it. Well I don't. But no one is happy just because they're rich. Possessions can't give you any real self-worth. They can't make you feel loved. At best they only simulate those things. I wish people wouldn't assume that just because some musician is all over the world playing music for millions of fans, doesn't mean that their life is perfect.
Well I don't remember him saying anything about being rich, but this relates to what you said; http://www.cracked.com/article_17061_5-things-you-think-will-make-you-happy-but-wont.html
You scan read all of it, or just wealth and fame, but it's a good read either way. I do suggest reading it all.
Yeah, he didn't say anything about being rich. I made that connection, because it's kind of similar. "You should be happy! You have all of these material possessions!" You can "liquidate" your assets for money, so I think of it as sort of the same thing. If you have lots of money, you generally have a lot of these things, and you're comfortable. But it doesn't make you happy. A person who would criticize a famous musician for writing sad songs that pertain to his or her life wouldn't also be the person who says "Money buys happiness" so why criticize? I think it's hypocritical. I don't think that's what he's doing exactly but it brings up those thoughts. And yeah I finished reading that. It's nothing really new to me, it makes sense. ANYWAY; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6Efggk5s8
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« Reply #1472 on: 25 March 2009, 04:59:18 » |
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« Reply #1473 on: 25 March 2009, 05:13:54 » |
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I may have told some of you about this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBw_wSoVQrYIBM 1401. The story is as follows. "This next recording features a singing computer. And it's not a modern computer either. It's an IBM 1401, one of those room-filling mainframes from the 1960s. Johann Johansson is from Iceland and is part of that whole avant-garde performance-art community. His father was a computer engineer who operated the first computer ever brought to Iceland - which was the aforementioned IBM 1401 data processing unit from 1964. Dad - Gunnar Johansson, who was a musician himself - got a little bored at work and began playing with the computer in ways that weren?t intended by its designers. The machine emitted strong electromagnetic waves. By programming the memory in specific ways, dad could get it to 'sing' certain notes and melodies. Those notes and melodies were picked up by a radio received next to the computer. And from there, it was easy to record these notes and melodies on a tape recorder. People thought this was pretty cool. And when the machine was retired in 1971, it was actually given its own funeral where it got to 'sing' one last time. In 2006, Gunnar?s son, Johann, took these recordings and rearranged them into an album called IBM 1401, a User's Manual. It's hauntingly beautiful? and it's weird recording number 3."
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