A brief intro, I'm RC44- 29 from the East Coast of Canada, now living in Toronto

First off, thanks for reading & a hello to the rest of the contributers to Impossible Planet. I love the idea of this site & I hope it touches on a variety of topics & creates some great debate & a warm community. The brunt of my posts will be in some form, about the music world we live in today. Touring, new digital technology, new bands, old bands, what's hot, music reviews & if time allows,  I will post some of my excerpts of life on the road as a tour manager.

I have worked in the music industry for almost 10 years, 6 as a music promoter & a little over 3 in label & artist management  ( as well as time  spent on the road as a tour manager) I love music, I love all genres of music, I love the changing world we are seeing daily in this industry & I'm constantly intrigued on where the future might take us.

Music is quite subjective, everyone loves something different, so please give feedback, or ask questions about possible topics you would like to see covered or area's that you are interested in within the music industry. I will try my best to keep up & answer questions & If I don't have the answer, I'll try my best to track it down for you.

Again to all the contributers, much respect!

Below is something I wrote a few weeks back & sent to moody, thought I would post it up.

In this new age world of music, where file sharing has become the norm, bleeps, glitches & ipods are ways to rock a crowd & anyone with a drum machine is calling themselves a producer, are we ever going to see the world of music the same?. We are steadily force fed a brash of what's hot this month music, by bands & DJ's that spark up from nowhere & whose rise to fame usually fades as fast as this economic turmoil. The question is, how did we get here & where are we going.

We have music reality based TV show's that have skewed the perception of how the music industry works, or have they just perfected the formula to fast track the rise to pop stardom; Kelly Clarkson is a perfect example of that formula. While the issue isn't with the Kelly Clarkson clones out there today, it's that it seems our generation cannot hold its focus for any length of time.

Do we all remember when the Arctic Monkey's had their meteoric rise back in 2006? The band pushed some 350,000 plus records in its first week alone. They won the famed Mercury prize, drew comparisons to some of the UK's best & it reputedly looked like it all happened overnight. They came back just as quick with "Favorite Worst Nightmare" that record pushed decent numbers, they played all the big festivals & hit the late night circuit, but the band has been relatively quiet since & In that time, I wonder if their fan base has shifted, if they are now saying, remember that band that..........

We now live in a generation that is saturated with so much music; it's almost impossible to keep any kind of focus on anything. You tube, Imeem, Last FM, all provide endless streams of music for our listening pleasure at no cost & each day a new blog or website pops up to again bring us more. Has this fast pace avalanche affected the way we value music? The way we listen to music?

Furthermore, is it even the music that's grabbing our attention in this new world? Blogs & sites such as Pitchfork have such an influence on the music of today, it's hard to tell. I sometimes find myself reading a pitchfork review & basing the record on the words written by the journalist, rather than picking up the record & playing it on my Ipod & coming up with my own conclusion. It's scary to think what will happen in the next 5 years with this music industry, will music become second place to the fast forward blizzard of technology or will it all catch up and blend itself seamlessly - Time will only tell

The art of writing is a difficult concept that many fail to grasp. Myself included. Yet I try or at least fake my understanding very well. In reality, in order to be a good writer you have to be a master of bullshitting. I do this very well. I'm writing this introduction minutes after witnessing my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers fall to the Indianapolis Colts. But I digress.

 Let me tell you a little about myself. I am currently a third-year student attending college in, if you haven't guessed it yet, Pittsburgh. GO STEELERS! I am majoring in business, entrepreneurial studies to be exact, and once I graduate, I will be embarking on a journey around the world hopefully to solve mysteries but most likely I'll become one of those dirty people you see on the street eating out of the trash, begging for your loose change, and rambling about how things used to be back in the day.

 In the coming days, weeks, months, years, I will be posting some articles here and there. Most will be papers that I have submitted for a grade, as I am too lazy to create any coherent thought that isn't for a class. 

Now that I have managed to make myself seem like a moron with less than a high school education, I will leave you with these words that serve as my unofficial motto:

"Sleep is the best meditation." ~Dalai Lama