Eternal Connection...

It's crazy nowadays when I think about how easily we are all connected. It wasn't that long ago when you had to drop 25 or 35 cents in a payphone to call for a ride from home! Now, kids these days can just whip out their cellphones and dial home from wherever they are. It wasn't really that long ago that you had to use a good ol fashion pen and paper, seal it up, stick a stamp on it and send a letter to "speak" with someone far away. I say "speak" because it's a bit hard to have a conversation when it may take days or weeks to get a response. Funny, I can e-mail my friend in Japan (on the other side of the globe), and receive a response in minutes! People used to lose touch after a certain point... elementary school, high school, college... but that is a thing of the past. With things like facebook and myspace, we can all stay connected with those people who we always wanted to. easily. Remember that kid in your gym class who you were buddies with in 3rd grade? Type his name in facebook and you'll probably find him, 15 or 20 years older, but it's still him. If not, head over to myspace, most people are on at least 1 of those, if not both.

It wasn't that long ago when we had to go to the library to find information... library? what's that? I just go to google, or wikipedia. Everything just a few keystrokes away. It's amazing when you really stop and think about it, but then again no one really does. We take for granted that instead of having to call all of our friends on the house phone to set up plans on friday night, we can just send out a gmail, or facebook message to all of them at once, maybe even use AIM if enough of your friends are on. we don't have to wonder where to meet or why they're late, just hit up their cell phone. don't worry about them getting lost, they've got gps! don't wonder about where you're gonna eat, one of your friends can just google from their phone.

In fact you don't even have to ask me what I'm thinking... you just read it right here...

Now, don't get me wrong, maybe the tone of this essay(oh no! is that what this is?) isn't really being conveyed. I'm not annoyed or fed up with technology or society, I'm a big fan of the direction that we're headed in. I mean damn, I'm "friends" with Barack Obama on facebook. If I would have told you, not even 10 years ago, that I would have any connection to a presidential candidate, especially a direct link to him, you'd look at me a little funny. What's even funnier is that I'm his "friend" and I don't even know him! If you don't think thats some crazy ish, I don't know what to tell you. But anyway, off my random tangent... It's just that I finally took a step back and looked at what we have (technology is what I'm talking about, in case my little side spiel confused you) with awe and amazement. It is truly something that we take for granted these days, and no doubt we will still do so in the future.

But... I digress. I'm not really telling you that you have to be all amazed and overjoyed and whatnot. I'm just sharing my simple thoughts on the eternal connection that we all share.

~Swagger J.

Lupe is a beast!

Speaking of music... Lupe Fiasco is a beast.... just ridiculous! Every time I listen to his songs I pick up something new that he says that just makes me go "Wow." I've been listening to his latest album "The Cool" a lot recently, and I just have to say that each time I listen to it, I like it more than the time before. I just can't say that about much music that comes out these days. I recommend that you give it a listen if you haven't heard it.

~Swagger J.

Heavy Rotation

Whenever I go somewhere in my car (and sometimes in other people's cars), I bring along my iPod (sometimes forcefully!). There are some songs and albums that just stay in my heavy rotation and I thought I'd share. These are the artists that keep me entertained on those boring drives...

Common
John Legend
Incubus
Brokn.Englsh
KanYe West
Gym Class Heroes
Lupe Fiasco
Jay-Z
Swagger Jackson (of course)
311
Alicia Keys
Gil Scott-Heron
WAR

There's tons more, but these are the main culprits. If you haven't heard/heard of any of these artists, you're missing out on some excellent music!

~Swagger J.

Ok, mobile blogging isn't that bad

If you can see this blog, then I have successfully uploaded it from my phone. hooray for me! Well, that's it, I was just testing it.

~Swagger J.

Mobile blogging sucks!

Ok, that sucked. I just wrote out a whole intricate, well thought out blog on my new fancy awesomephone, and it decided to erase it for some reason. grrrr

Anyway, here's the main gist of it...


Welcome to the Swagger Lounge, it's the one and only Swagger Jackson. I've decided to try out this whole blog thing because I have way too many random thoughts in my head at random times. For those of you who don't know, or who wouldn't know (Man this is so much faster than typing on my phone), I just got a new toy! I decided to upgrade myself (Beyonce style), and get one of those PDA/smartphone/all-in-one deviceamajigs. It even has "free" unlimited internet access, which I pay for monthly, lol. Anyway, in order to justify paying for that fancy internetness, I decided I should probably do a little more than check my gmail and facebook more frequently... and thus, the Swagger Lounge was born.

First thing I wanna do is give a shout to my boy L, aka Lyriq 2 go, of the infamous (soon to be famous) Brokn.Englsh (myspace.com/broknenglsh), who came up with the term Swagger Lounge on a track I did for him, "Top Notch" on their mixtape: R.E.M. Yes, I make music (myspace.com/swaggerjackson), and I love music (especially my own!).

Second thing I wanna do is establish some rules of this blog:
First rule: There will be no uniformity in my blogs. One may be well formatted, and grammered and such, and the next may be completely random stream of consciousness type jazz with no periods andor commas/punctuationism ( See what I did there?)

Second rule: I can and will make up any word I damn well please. You've already seen it quite a few times in this very blog... don't expect it to end there.

Third rule: I don't really have a third rule, but I think it looks better to have 3 rules, rather than 2. So the third rule is that 3 rules look better than 2.

Well, this seems like a good place to end the blog, and besides, I've run out of my daily allowance of parentheses. More blogs to come! (Hopefully my phone behaves better next time, and I can actually write the next one from it. Damn, I've used up 2 of tomorrow's parentheses)

~Swagger J.