Jack Pribek

I’ve been doing a series on Youtube called, Music For Fallen Trees. It features long form jams-hybrid electronica. This is from the latest installment, number 15 – Wayward Saints.

I had a thought today: the record business started roughly 100 years ago. It ended (for practical purposes) around 25 years ago.
So, the record business has already been gone for a third of the time it was viable.

It was such a huge part of culture, but only for a blink of an eye.

Now this: the video game business has been around roughly 50 years already…2/3 the time of the record biz.

Video games have a huge impact on modern culture and they will continue to.

The video game industry will last far longer than the record business. I just realized that.

I’m fascinated by Oswald Spengler’s idea that civilization occurs after the zenith of a culture.

Civilization is somewhere on the back 9.

Everyone thinks their weather is THE weather.

Every place I’ve ever lived and most places I’ve visited experience quirky weather events and when they happen, somebody inevitably says “Welcome to (fill in the blank)”.

Today, Beka used the phrase “Dogwood Winter”. It’s a new one on me. A good fit though; yesterday, the dogwoods started showing their first blooms and today…