So, it's true, I'm listening now to DJ Shadow's mind-fucking-blowing Endtroducing for the first time in a long time... After the first track, I felt my very will fall apart. Damn it. I lost that scratched up and skipping CD a dog's age ago and so, in the same way that one might replace a blown tire or a book they continually lend out without expecting it to be returned (100 Years of Solitude in my case), I recommitted to DJ Shadow and actually purchased the album AGAIN electronically.
Here's some advice to those who steal from artists: do not steal from those you appreciate. I know there is a new economy for talent and art. Live shows vs. label profits, blah blah blah. But all the same. Refuse to steal from those you appreciate. It makes for a better world. And it makes you less of a dick (slightly).
The album, well, I haven't gotten through all of it, but the start of the album is like a thrust of land into the ferocious, churning waters. What he has done with sound, I would do with the written word and tabletop game design, if I could. But seriously, DJ Shadow is a genius, crystallized in this album. Damn. If you don't have it, you're missing out.
Endtroducing. Don't steal it. Buy it.
So I was thinking about how clumsy my tabletop game was turning out to be and how clumsy the new (and really good) tabletop games are as well... And so I started to think about how to start all over again... And I figured it out!
Now I have lots of work and research to do, but done quickly enough, I'll have the burgeoning, nay, bloating tabletop market overwhelmed by my genius!
(Sorry, I'm just trying to pump myself up for once)
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