So I’ve come across a few interesting people on the web lately, so I’ve been familiar with for a while, and some not so. Seems that these people all have something compelling to write about and do so in an entertaining fashion. I’ve enjoyed the ‘Exploiting My Baby’ blog by the articulate and level headed Teressa Strasser. I guess its hard to relate to most of what she’s saying since I’m a male, I don’t have any kids (that I know of), and I don’t plan to have kids anytime soon. That said, I particularly enjoyed her input to the late Adam Carolla Show, and I just find her to be the likeable type which I want to see succeed in whatever she does, so I keep reading what she’s up to.
I’ve stumbled across a couple of other interesting characters too. No-one that I feel I need to name, but just regular people who seem to have that creative ability and manage to write something ineteresting or churn out a song at random or whatever. It makes me jelous because I would love to write some songs, but I’ve never been able to come up with even the slightest idea when it comes to that sort of thing.
Listening to guys like Penn Jillette and Adam Carolla on the radio (via podcasts) regularly had given me far more passion for radio. Something that took hearing something intelligent and entertaining which made me actually think to develop. Sadly though, FM radio in Australia is mostly shit, and you end up hearing fucktards like Kyle and Jackie O (a pair who embody just about everything wrong with youth culture today - I hate them so). I do enjoy Merrick and Rosso, however although they entertain me, I don’t feel that I’m left with much after they’re done. Dr Karl is awesome.
I guess it would be nice to develop some kind of podcast, as with things as they are these days, its an option open to even the most boring and talentless people and brings them to just as many people as someone like Adam Carolla who has hundreds of thousands of listeners daily. Now of course hundreds of thousands of people actually click ‘Download’, on the Adam Carolla Podcast, whereas Billy-Bob Noname probably gets six hits, three are his immediate family, two are stoners who don’t know the difference and one is a seventy year old retiree who is trying to learn how to use his ipod. I would expect to be somewhere down the latter end of the scale.
Once again it makes me jelous of guys like Adam Carolla who just manage to turn chat about something pissy into something endlessly entertaining. One of the other problems is that even if I could maintain a steady stream of things to talk about (which looking at this blog, its apparent that I can’t), I’d just end up feeling like I’m talking to no-one and get over it. I think if I knew there was a good amount of people who bothered to listen, I’d feel like I was achieving more. The fact that I still need to earn a living would restrict me from investing any serious amount of time as well.
Now my problem is that I’ve been sitting here on my patio typing for so long that I lost half of my points. I think I was going to say that part of my problem with lack of inspiration is due to having had a very stable and trouble free life. Like everyone I have problems, however its all relatively piddly crap. I have parents who gave me everything I ever needed. They are still together and seem happy that way. I lived in the same nice house for nearly 20 years. My relationship with my signifigant other is stable (to the best of my knowledge anyway), and she is a good person who I am happy with. I own a house (well… the bank does), I have a job that pays the bills, I have good friends. I guess not having anything of importance to complain about hinders the creative process. Perhaps thats why in the past this blog has been rantings about just insignifigant BS.
Anyway, its time to hang out some washing, so I’m going to get on with it. Peace.
