Last week, I show my friend the facebook episode of south park. As someone who abandoned facebook out of frustration at how much of a time-suck and drama-generator it was, I thought he’d find the parallels amusing. He did.
Then I see this morning, he broke his phone, and due to lack of contact backup, has had to restart his facebook profile to regather everyone’s contact info. LoL.
So I’m looking around online for signs of a friend that has disappeared from our social circle recently, half worried that he’s gone and got himself into some sort of trouble that would explain his absence from the usual haunt. I find no recent news articles, so that’s good, but I do find an old nwtekno thread, where someone with a handle that matches his name posts something. It’s probably not him, then again, who knows. What’s funny is that a few posts up, I spot an old raving buddy, who says “Pardon me, but I’m rather new to this whole ‘electronic’ ‘music’ thing. I only listen to Paul Oakenfold. So… what’s IDM?”
Oh how times have changed. I’m sure he knows all the colors of the ishkur rainbow by now.
What an oddly bittersweet synchronicity, that Michael Jackson would die just days before his full catalog became available on Emusic. And thanks to the new 12-credit-max-cost-per-album change, it’s working out to be an extra sweet deal.