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~ Michael Jordan
~ Dr. Dre
~ Lance Armstrong
~ Tiger Woods
~ Tony Hawk
~ Afrika Bambaataa
~ William J. Clinton
~ Albert Einstein
~ Teddy Rosevelt
~ T.S. Eliot
~ Robert Frost
~ Charles Dickens
~ Frank Sinatra
~ Elvis Presley
~ Brad Pitt
~ Muhammad Ali
~ Marlon Brando
~ John Stewart
~ George Carlin
~ Steven Spielberg
~ Clint Eastwood
~ Quentin Tarantino
~ Beastie Boys
~ Run DMC
~ Tupac Shakur
~ Martin O’Brien
~ Robert Moog
~ Chemical Brothers
~ Jerry Rice
~ Mahatma Gandhi
~ Ernest Hemingway
~ David Hume
~ Plato
~ Grandmaster Flash

 Austin Vegas Dot Com

A very good friend of mine from college, whose advice I can’t, for the life of me, recall having ever taken, kindly informed me that blogging was “a waste of time.”

Why the hell are you wasting your time writing a blog about other peoples crap, stupid jokes, pictures, news I read on someone else’s site first and you’re life. Who really wants to read that shit?

In all honesty not me… well not me now anyway. Who gives a shit? You work in a cubefarm, you live in a dilapidate rat hole and the pest control hasn’t showed up in months, you got the latest porn dvd with scratches on it and you’re pissed to have to wait another 6 weeks for a new copy, and you’re a big fan of James Blunt. Wow. Great life, sucka.

Aw but to write, remember, poke fun, remorse, comment and review about it? That’s the good shit. This is my life and it’s not a waste of time. I’ve had the opportunity to reflect back on the days, weeks and years in a way that allows me to rationalize my behavior, my actions, my choices and my thoughts. I explore, grow and change with the environment around me. And, like the rest of the growing MySpace generation, I’ve become publicly available via the net - a sort of exhibitionists.

If anything I will admit I have never utilized this media to expand my personal wealth or professional capital (specifically in the music/dj business) which does bother me sometimes. I’ve been working this site since 2000 back when I was posting stupid shit from college but now, it’s become my own personal digital journal of AV - my virtual expression, alter-internet-ego and cathartic release from real life. Plus I feel I do point out a few important issues or cool shit ever now and then

Feel free like anything else to comment, flame, rave or just voyeur but know its only a waste of time if you don’t get anything out of it. Enjoy.