Walker's Blues
With just the clothes on your back
You stay as you are
I stay as I am
Just walking anyway
Hello, I'm Munou.
I thought I'd write about what I usually think and why I keep writing.
Introduction
The title is "Walker's Blues" by Haruomi Hosono.
I've loved music for a long time.
Originally, in elementary school, I listened to game music like Dragon Quest and the Checkers due to my friends' influence, but after hearing Simon & Garfunkel in a music class in middle school, I remember going to a used CD shop for the first time and buying CDs by The JAM and The Who just based on their names.
After that, I came to love Bob Dylan, and now I think I have all his studio albums up to around the 1980s on vinyl. As for folk, I like acid folk and psychedelia too.
I got into punk, including Japan's Hi-Standard, Mad Capsule Markets, Nunchaku, and a bit of hardcore, and I like UK and US punk reasonably well.
I obsessively followed information on Richard Hell, who left Television to start a solo band and became the inspiration for the Sex Pistols, even importing 1970s NME magazines from the UK.
In that sense, I still like the rebellious spirit, but I think I like folk in a broad sense, even if it's from the perspective of it being originally working-class music. That said, it's not that I hate anything; I think the rebellious spirit is something very kind because it became popular precisely because it stayed close to people.
Increasing the number of things you hate only makes life harder.
In other words, it's not that I'm particularly anti-Big Tech, but in purely enjoying technology—just as I used to scavenge and take apart junk—I think it might just be that I'm curious about how things work. But since I'm the one who understands myself the least, I'll leave it at that for this point.
The Internet
Actually, I haven't lived thinking much until now; I've just lived chasing the things I like.
Since my student days, I was the only one around who liked machines, so I think I spent more time doing things alone than going out to play.
I was often alone until late at night, so perhaps I had a lot of time to do unnecessary things by myself. Originally, I became interested in computers thanks to BBS culture. At the time, people I was close to on BBS via Skype were copying entire sites or doing things they shouldn't have been, and I was curious about how they did it, so I had them teach me. I was surprised to see the name of a Japanese tool from that time pop up recently, but my memory of trying to set up Linux on a VM dates back to elementary or middle school.
Then, in middle school, I started buying junk PCs because there were quite a few blogs about collecting them, so I learned from there and started going to Hard Off.
Thanks to that, I became able to play online games, and I wonder how much time I wasted...
I mainly played AVA and Minecraft while doing repairs at the same time, and I thought I could make a profit if I sold them, so I would buy junk PCs and electronic devices cheaply and sell them.
Even then, I was learning various things from BBS culture and blogs, so it's a secret that I think I really should have studied properly and earnestly.
After all, I think what can be learned from personal blogs is significant for knowing about technology itself. If you ask why, it's because if there's something I don't understand in a jumble of text, I get curious and look it up, and it's not just technical blogs.
Sites translating music lyrics write analyses including the historical background of the time and mention related artists.
Blogs summarizing design that introduce fonts introduce the art styles that were popular at the time.
Of course, after graduating from middle school, I started going out more, and the information I gained from outside the internet was also significant, but there's no doubt that the internet was what sparked my interest in the first place.
I probably wouldn't have gone on a solo trip to Tokyo in high school if it weren't for information on the internet, and I probably wouldn't have been able to hold a photo exhibition either. For this, I should say I'm grateful to people.
In short, what I want to say is that about 80% of the reason I continue blogging is for myself, but for the other 20%, I hope there are people who find interest in my miscellaneous writings.
The things I saw during my student days were probably not useless knowledge, and since I believe I understand myself the least, I publish as much as possible to use as a reference for how what I've written looks to a third party.
How many people are interested in the things I'm curious about? I think that's about my current purpose.
About Music
Lately, or rather, I've been into internet music.
Even back in high school, there were things like 4Chan Tracklists, and music threads would pop up late at night on the News Flash VIP board where I used to hang out.
I got used to music that wasn't band music when I used to go to DJ events and such.
libesh ramko
DJ Sharpnel
Minor Threat
Sonic Youth
Underworld
Primal Scream
The bottom four were in a sound source recently released by a US collector, which reminded me of them, and I'm listening to them again.
Camera
I've been thinking I want to do it again lately, but since convenience is the most important thing, I haven't been able to get around to it at all.
