I’ve prob­ably talked before about my ser­i­ous man-​​crush on Gisle Martens Meyer. Mostly I just really like his music. Fol­low­ing his blog there’s a lot I can identify with, too. He’s one of the few musi­cians to do his best to give an expli­cit “fuck you and thanks for dying” to the music industry at every oppor­tun­ity. He’s embraced the new real­ity of music dis­tri­bu­tion with open arms. Plus he seems very gung-​​ho about the robot future in con­trast to all those losers who throw around words like “apocalypse”.

The first sen­tence of one of his most recent blog posts just hit me like a brick:

The reason I like the future is because you can change it.

That sums up a lot about me and why I get so frus­trated with friends my age — or usu­ally quite a bit younger! — who are already start­ing to slip into the con­ser­vat­ive “things which are new suck” men­tal­ity. It might take me a bit of extra effort to “get” some of the new changes to the world: Twit­ter is a good example. It would be easy for me to stick to how things were and shake my cane and say “in my day, we wrote blog posts with more than 140 char­ac­ters!” but I think in the end it’s worth it.

I’m pretty psyched about the future and I want to be a part of it and, I guess most import­antly, I want to change it.