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So I meant to blog this a while back, but I figured since I had the ning tabbed open now, why not do it now.

 

To make a long story short, this song...

 

 

... came on my ipod as it was on shuffle one morning. I've listened to Say Anything for a long time now, and this song is a favorite of mine by them, but until we went over WW2 in class,…

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You know what really grinds my gears? When people say that electronic music, techno, trance, house, progressive, dubstep, 8 bit, chiptune, any genre like that isn’t music because it doesn’t “have instruments”.

 

I have a question for the people who say this: do you know how hard these people work to create this music?

 

It isn’t just pushing a few computer buttons. Great, respectable electronic artists like Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Skrillex, Bassnectar,…

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  The attention span of most people is not very long to begin with, but in this day and age where everything is instant and on demand, our attention spans are shortening even more. And with it, our ability to sit through and watch commercials on television is lessening too. Commercials are now going for an average maximum time of 30 seconds each, most trying to stay…

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Over the years, holidays have gone from time spent with family around the warm fire, to what item you expect to be in your hands by the end of the night. It's quite sad that this happened, but let's look together at some of the factors that might have caused this.



One major factor is Black Friday. Usually the day after Thanksgiving is considered the start of the "holiday shopping season," and that first day of shopping is when stores… Continue