About bed time.

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Bits and pieces, this and that, slow, mild.  Off my game.  Not a dead stop or drowning in pain though either.  The jerky is nearly dry.  I'll let it cool tonight and check it when I wake,  Probably another couple of hours anyway. 

What is going on with youtube?  Are they going the way MTV went?  To me they are pretty useless without music videos.  It seems musicians believe we will just find and listen to them, without them putting something out.  The radio is gone.  MTV is dead (in all the ways that count).  Sure, giving it away is a risk.  But not giving it away is a certainty.  I know, it's going down hill fast, but for all of us.  If you want to get a dime, you, these days, will have to spend a nickle and then risk that as a sampler.  Oh, but it is getting tough for musicians in some other ways.  They used to be able to put out an album or cd, and we would have to buy the whole thing, much of which was junk, at hyperinflated prices.  At the end, cd's were selling for $15-$20.  And, as noted, we were lucky to get one to three good songs on it.  That just wasn't going to work.  Now, what, $.99 a tune, just take the best let them eat the rest?  More if they do a decent video?  Well... it's still not a bad gig if you don't throw the money away.  The "good old days" are certainly over, but they never should have existed.  Eventually things had to turn around.

Movies have pretty much died as well.  I remember when a movie would stay in the theaters for six months, maybe longer... if going from bigger theaters to smaller, rather than just staying in the same show houses.  There are still some which try to sell their dvds or blurays at excessive prices.  Most are direct to market.  They aren't even trying anymore.  Hacking, while a bane, has also been a friend.  It has broken the back of some of the worst of the gatekeepers.  Ideological socialists and communists, amoral when they aren't immoral, definitely unethical and without saving graces.  It's all B now, at best.  Big names are dead, big studios are dying, it's wonderful, really.

In many ways, places, and recent times, I am seeing the wizard being exposed.  The curtain just won't stay closed, and people are actually beginning to notice.  I'm not sure if it matters, at this point.  It depends, to a degree, if the voting has been rigged or legitimate.  If it was rigged, all will be good.  If it was true, only doom remains.  I suppose it is much like Greece, on slightly differently.  Whether their "elected" government does the will of the people, to a degree, doesn't matter.  What matters is why they voted "no".  Was it, in majority, to hold out for a better deal?  If so, pigs at troughs eventually must pay for the feed with their bacon.  Period.  If they voted no, in majority, in order to get off the gravy train, they have a chance.  I'm pretty sure which it is, which means their government IS doing their will.  Sorry Charlie, pigs will be pigs until the oink is rendered out of their tail.

Oh... just trying to be cheery.  Later... uhrm.... or more, good night.