The Web Among Us

It's amazing how much our society relies on the internet. Without it people couldn't really work from home or work with other companies hundreds of miles away by using FTP or even Video Conferencing. Not only are people able to work from a computer at their homes, but they can also carry a laptop and get internet almost in any heavily populated area. People can even buy a wireless card from their cell phone company to plug into their computers so they can get internet anywhere their phone has service. And on the topic of phones, we can even use them to send emails to business partners or even turn in a file for school.

Really try and think hard about what we all used to do 10 years ago before the internet was the mega powerhouse it is today.

I'm trying my hardest to think about it, but I just can't seem to think how people were able to survive, because now it just seems like if there is no wireless internet or their cellphone isn't getting service then they might just die because they can't see what their friends are doing on twitter, myspace, or facebook.

I'm kind of excited, yet nervous to see how we keep up with the changing internet in the next 5 years.

Musical interest

This post is dedicated for a little band called MuteMath and their much anticipated album coming out later on this spring. They are a band from New Orleans, but originally started as a small Christian band called Earthsuit in the early 2000's.

While the band was Earthsuit they had a large influence with reggae and jazz music. But like any other small band that wasn't going anywhere, they broke up and a few of the guys started MuteMath.

Once MuteMath got signed to a major record label, they soon realized the label was screwing them over quite a bit, which in turn made these muically genius graduates from The Julliard School do was to sue their record label. This was probably the best thing to happen to this band because it caught the attention of a lot of media and other bands. In the end this band won the settlement against their record label.

MuteMath is definitely one of the best live shows I have ever seen in my life. The lead singer, Paul Meany plays a large array of instruments on stage, including custom made keytars (which are extremely expensive) and he usually ends up breaking one of them by accident in the middle of the show. Another strange thing this band ends up doing is running all over the stage switching instruments and figuring out new ways to play the instruments/whatever is on the stage around them.

I highly recommend checking these guys out on their youtube video blog page.

In the meantime just check out how amazing/pseudo nerdy the drummer Darren is with the drums and hooking up triggers to the lights in the room to his drumkit.