If you head over to my actual website (of which this is a part, technically), then you will notice that I have a mailing list and a twitter … thing. I decided to incorporate a mailing list because sometimes I don’t want to have to go through the myspace blog or the facebook note in order to get people’s attention about updates on my music or new shows or whatever. Plus I have a feeling that my family (especially the older ones who look at facebook like a monkey looks at a robot) will have an easier time reading a mailing list e-mail than churning through some social networking thing. So if you would like to be a part of that mailing list, then head over to my website and sign up. It’s through NotifyList.com, which is a nice basic (FREE) mailing list site.
I got onto Twitter because I thought if I ever was wrongly arrested by Egyptian police for anything, I could update my Twitter and get out of jail. That alone makes it a sound investment. So if you want to be my Twitter friend (that just sounds disgusting), then head over here and follow me or whatever it is you kids do these days.
Twitter truly is the creation of a generation of which I am not a part: the Google generation or whatever the fuck they’re calling them these days. Attention spans have dropped to the point where all kids need is 140 characters to write their life stories. Facebook lets you know about people instantly. Gone are they days of instrospective LiveJournal entries by skinny goth kids who write about how much it sucks being a suburban white boy; now, GothKid90 just jots “life sux” on his mobile phone and Twitter and Facebook send it off for all of his friends to see. Gone are the days where Alfred Hitchcock could get away with ten-minute long single takes (go watch Rope, it’s fantastic); now each scene is comprised of one hundred shots of a million different things, all of which detract from the plot.
Oh well. It’s hard to determine if this is a good thing or not, because I personally haven’t done any scientific studies comparing attention span and intellegence. My assumption is that having a short attention span does not mean you are smart, much in the same way that wearing glasses doesn’t mean you’re a nerd.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote Hocus Pocus entirely on scraps of paper, Post-It notes, napkins, etc. He was like Twitter 1.0.
On a side note, I started the mailing list because I got an e-mail from last.fm saying that their royalty program was in full effect, and I wanted to tell everyone to listen to my tracks on last.fm so that I could earn royalties for it, because that’s totally cool. So, uh, go do that.