#mayspace

oh my this ones a bop! i really enjoy the distorted vocals. also the boom boom just has me

Bitch - Allie X

I have come to the conclusion that I need to spend some time away from Twitter.

The amount of ads I see, political disputes I read about, and the amount of self-centered posts about boyfriends/girlfriends loving each other is beginning to make me become uninterested at all. 

The worst part: the people I do want to see on my timeline rarely every post and when they do not post I do not see a point in going on the app anymore. 

Remember MySpace? It sold for approximately $35 million dollars to marketing network Specific Media last night, down from its original valuation of $580 million dollars when New Corporation brought it 6 years. Though it isn’t the first time a social media is relegated to the “Internet boneyard” and certainly won’t be the last, the story of MySpace was unique for 2 distinctive reasons. First, its acquisition back in 2005 prompted a bidding war between 2 media giants, News Corporation and Viacom. When Viacom, the parent company of Paramount Pictures, MTV, VH1, and such, lost the deal. The company fired Tom Freston, one of the founding member of MTV. The second distinction was just how much resource was at MySpace’s disposal once News Corporation won the bidding war. Its holdings like Fox News, New York Post, and 20th Century Fox have made its chairman Rupert Murdoch not only wealthy but one of the most powerful man in media today. Still, with all his leverage, Murdoch failed to capitalize on MySpace potentials. When Facebook overtook its popularity 2 years ago, MySpace attempted at a rebound several times, from redesigning its layout to its logo. As a last ditch effort, it even added a “Connect with Facebook” button last year.Though details on the sale to Specific Media weren’t made public, News Corporation will still hold a minority stake in the company. In addition, MySpace’s new owner announced pop star Justin Timberlake will own part of the company and take part in re-vitalizing MySpace. Oh how the mighty have fallen, though it also served as a warning to Google, who launched its Google+ project the day before.

I've spent some of this evening looking over old blogs from my old band Ubernoise.There were three of us in the band me, Si (who I run the studio with) and my wife Andrea.  It was always a bit odd really as I never really wanted to be in a band, just produce, but our album 'Other People's Mouths', was actually pretty good. I'm being falsely modest, I'm bloody proud of it. You can still buy it here not that we'll see any of the cash from it but never mind!

It was 2006 when everything happened with us and while that was only five years ago so much as changed. In the blog I mention the new phenomenon of Youtube, Knarls Barkley getting to number 1 on downloads alone, oh and the blog was on myspace!!!

I wonder what we as a band could have achieved if the tools that are at the desposal of bands now were available to us? Would we have been so reliant on a label with no money, and no influance to get our music to the people? God knows to be honest, but it was funny reading back on how damn hopeful we were.

Our last comment on our wall was two years ago, although apparently we had two plays today. Anyway if you can face going on myspace here is where the memory of Ubernoise still reside, and looking back, they weren't all bad...

http://www.myspace.com/ubernoise