ed my first video, four for my first film in a theater, and I was about six when I first learned to use a computer. As I grow older I would like to think that I am separating myself from this, but that is not the case. Right now I sit in front of my computer with my stereo headphones on, playing music from a list of over four hundred songs, writing poetry to friends over the internet, and using a microphone that takes the sounds of my environment and feeds them though a maze of green on green circuit boards and then mixes them with my music and I can hear myself typing this though my music is rather loud. It is a very surreal experience for it is a new one. Soon, however, as I get used to it, I will think that something’s wrong when I don’t have my microphone on. I realize that although I control the media more, I'm still a heavy user. It has been argued that this new phenomenon of being able to interact with your media makes it less brain sucking and, in a sense, that is true, but I would argue that although it does require the user to be thinking and this is a good thing in some respects, it also distances one further from reality. I am not alone in developing reflexes that are only usable on a computer interface and attempting to apply them to my real life. I have a close friend who has tried to strafe out of the way when he thought he saw a terrorist coming towards him. He has also tried to Z target moving objects. I have had similar experiences. I was recently at a party listening to the music and I found my self picking out the beats in the song and figuring out what they were called and what the sequence would look like on my beat creation program --the beats were Hardcore 909 (reversed) BD 1, Sub BD and 808 Snare-- and when I got home I recreated the sequence on my computer. These are not things one should be thinking; I should have, rather than creating the beats on the computer in my mind, thought of what th...
