Cell Phones don’t belong in the studio while recording our next album.
I was just telling a friend I’m going to take a break from phones. I also told him I wasn’t going to make an announcement. I lied about the announcement part. I thought of something to talk about in that. So I’m here on the old blog.
Cell phones are not on default to give you information. You have to pry it from them.
When we first got cell phones and specifically affordable internet on them, I could not believe the vast amount of information available to me in my hands. That’s how they get ya’. You have to choose what you want on that thing. If you don’t choose information, you ain’t getting it.
Choose wisely on the old cell phone.
Every cell phone online presents you with a plethora of choices every single day. They need clicks, whoever “they” are. They are concerned with numbers. You might be concerned with how to change a flat, or say “where’s the bathroom?” In Japanese. They don’t give a fuck.
Their goal is to get you to make as many decisions as possible for them in a day. If you’re scrolling social media, you’re actually deciding on what you think is cool or worth time. If you’re looking at news feeds, every headline is an attempt to make you click it. If you’re shopping and even know exactly what you want, you will be presented with options, plus sells, upgrades, service plans.. decisions decisions.
It’s about the options. There really aren’t that many in “real life” news. It either happened or it didn’t.
You might be deciding who to talk to or listen to based on your interests even if someone you don’t like is talking important knowledge. How would you know with all the options? You could miss what you need to read because the phone thinks it knows what you want.
I’m out.
Cellphones are no longer a window to the world in most cases, even though the tech is there. They make more money catering to our preferences. When we go outside, look around, we are confronted with what we need. When we look at a cell phone, we pick from a list of things we want. So yea, I’m taking a break.
I want my brain back. I don’t want to answer questions or scroll. It’s almost like school. I hate school. I want to play and get dirty. I want to see what my imagination can do again with undivided attention to this record we are starting Saturday. So for the time we are making it, I’m no screens.
Very excited about the trip, without cell phones.
We are leaving this weekend for 9 days in a computer-less studio. I am going computer-less too. I want what I prefer to be represented in the album. I don’t want to give that energy to my phone. I’d rather my ears have it.
I will come back with pictures and music. But while I am gone, I actually want to be there. Have a great week.
Return to home.
A song about America as it has been since the beginning.
A video for a song we wrote about prison and the USA. Like it or not, unjust incarceration is as American as apple pie or baseball. Baseball in particular. Our military and police stem from civil war times and hunting down slaves. It really is a modern version of that. Way to go, America.