Diary / Blog

Ok, I've been reading Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, back from his junkie days in Motley Crue. It is so far a good book, similar to Kurt Cobain's Journals except, well it makes a lot more sense and instead of just being like one page having a song written then the next being a letter to himself, it is a book where you can see his downfall. Plus having the soundtrack helps too. Anyway, not the point.

You know just look at where we are today. In a world where diaries and books are slowly becoming obsolete, I have to wonder what the future has in store. So many people are hearing of the Heroin Diaries, or the Kurt Cobain Journals, and I'm sure Jim Morrison's is due out soon if it hasn't been already. What about our generation though? Say I become some drugged up rock star who has an immortal legacy: what are they going to do, make a book out of all of my blogs, and find the few pages I have actually written on notebook paper to make a book? I don't know, I have always wanted to be a person who the world can look back and be like "That was one fucked up son of a bitch, but damn didn't he change us." How likely will that be? Well so far the only ones that I can say are truly "immortal" right now in the fact that 1000s of years from now if this world even exists, would be: Beethoven, Mozart, Presley, Hendrix, Lennon and amongst some cliques Marley and Cobain. Dylan, Plant and Page will be added whenever they are truly gone. Sure right now we all remember Morrison, Joplin, Holly, Sixx, etc. but fast forward 20-30 even 100 years will our children or grandchildren even know of them? I mean look at Toto, a band who defined late 70s and early 80s rock, one of the few precursors to the monster ballads we all experenced in the 80s, who the fuck remembered or heard of them before GTA: San Andreas remembered us of one simple song? How about even someone as immortal as Beethoven? He ended the classical era brought forth the Romance era, and that was only in 1825. Romance era happened from 1825-1900 can you name one 'Romance' artist? He wrote at least 8 symphonies, but all we can recall is Symphony No. 5. It is sad that this happens, the fact that one-time equivilants of gods in one generation's eyes can be completely erased 3 generations later. Why? Music shouldn't be this short-term, it should be preserved for the future to hear. It is almost like we're about to hit another dark age and have yet another rebirth where people in some futuristic fucked up nation will decide "hey lets study up on this shit these great Americans, or British, or Japanese, or Saudis (you get the point) did!" Remember though, what is the one thing that was lost by the time the Renaissance happened? Music, except for the music that happened in 1200 by some monks who believed music should only be used for religious purposes to show love to God. Who at that time, seemed like he was on some sort of cruise while the Black Plague, Crusades and other things happened. Not being blasphemous at all. I'm just starting to think, our history runs in a cycle... us humans get so far then we are pushed back. The ideologies, the thoughts, the structures, the sciences always last through this hard phase. But music is the only one that didn't return... except for those Bible Psalms.

So I ask the question again. What will become of our modern day rock stars? Even if they do become immortal, the great cycle will just reset. The thing I keep asking myself though is Blogs or Diaries? Hmph, which will Heath Ledger's be based on?