Tag: The Tragically Hip

• Digital Dadaism (aka Phoneistan or PhoneDrones)

  

  Take a look around you, or look up from your phone…do you see (as the late great Tom Petty proclaimed on his final album release), the “Hypnotic Eye?” Damn near every hominid in the western world has been overtaken by the ubiquitous so-called smart phone. Flat out in this digital dadaist age. It’s so sick.…

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  March 13, 2022

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  311, 311 Day 2022, 3rd Eye, AI, Analog, Apple, Arizona, Artificial Inteligence, Attention, Bidenstan, Clouds, coke, Conversation, COVID, COVID-19, Crackberry, Dada, Death, Decorum, Digital Age, digital dadaism, Discipline, dodo, Dopamine, Etiquette, Excuse Me?, Family, Fully Completely, Get outside, God, Her, Hiking, Hypnotic Eye, I ain't bored I got my phone, Information Age, iPhone, JL, Joaquin Phoenix, JZ, Keyboard Economy, Kindness, Life, Life is short, Love, Manners, Maynard James Keenan, Meat Puppets, Metaverse, My phone!, Nature, Politeness, Put that away!, Read a book, Real Life, Reality, Robocalls, Sedona, Self Control, Self Governorship, Slot Machine, Slots, Slowdona haha, smart phone, Smartphone, Smartphone Addiction, Steve Jobs, Sundays, Surrealism, The HIP, The Tragically Hip, There’s Always An Excuse, Third Eye, Tom Petty, Tool, Tourists, Vino, Where is my phone?, You cannot be serious

• Hey Man, I’m a real machine.

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds. Some people talk too much. This writer included. Nearing a new decade in 2020 there seems to be excessive noise everywhere. A lot of souls, bots and spammers are striving to be heard above the din. We all want to be heard, yes? Social Media has compounded and amplified…

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  December 10, 2019

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  Are you serious?, Biden 2020, Bots, Can you hear me?, Did you hear what I said?, Drain The Swamp, Dyslexicon, Filler Words, Freedom of Speech, Hawk Soaring Over, Hey Man, I burn this dictionary, I’m Like, Jeff Bridges, Keep America Great, Lexicon, Like, Listening, Machine, Man, Man Machine Poem, Meetings!, Missing Persons, No Worries, Noctourniquet, Nope, Pay Attention, President Donald J. Trump, Robocalls, Self Monitoring, So, Social Media is Bullshit, Souls, Spam, Spammers, Speech, Telemarketers, The Big Lebowski, The Dude, The Dude Abides, The Mars Volta, The Tragically Hip, Trump 2020, Verbal Disfluency, Vice President Joe Biden, What are words for, What did you say?, Woman, Words, Wordsmith, Yep, You cannot be asking me that, You Know

• Hideaway(s)…

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 47 seconds. Been hiding out and laying low, it’s nothing new to me…well you can always find a place to go ~ if you can keep your sanity.  -Guns N’ Roses, Out Ta Get Me, 1987 Sometimes in life you reach your limit, need a reprieve and gotta get away to…

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  September 7, 2019

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  311, 311 Space and Time, 3rd Eye, Arizona, Arizona Skies, Attention Span, Axl Rose, Back to the earth, Blue Skies, Buy, Camping, Check Out, Circles, Climb the mountain, Consume, Consumer, Curt Kirkwood, Desert, Desert Southwest, Despacio, Dick’s Hideaway, Digital Domain, Digital World, Dining, Disappear, Earth, Enjoy Life, Family, Friends, Fun, G n’ R, Get Away, Get Lost, Go Outside, God, Guns N’ Roses, Hideaway, Hiking, Howard Hughes, I Foley’d It, Iggy Pop, in the moment, Joshua Homme, Leave your phone behind, Life, Marketing, Mental Health, Mindfulness, New Beginnings, Nick Hexum, Notifications, Outside, Phoenix, Positivity, Presence, Promotions, QOTSA, Queens of the Stone Age, Real World, Recluse, Reclusive, Refuge, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Retreat, Richardson Browne, Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine, Screens, Sell, Slow Down, Slow Movement, Slowdona, Smartphone Addiction, Social Media, Solar System, Starting Over, Stay Positive and Love your Life, Sun, The Great Outdoors, The HIP, The Last Recluse, The Matrix, The Tragically Hip, Them Crooked Vultures, Third Eye, Time, Time Suck, Turn off Notifications, Vacation, Valley of the Sun, Virtual World, Vistas, Walkin’ Boss, Wander, Wandering

• Bass Rigging

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 53 Seconds. For those of us who play guitar or bass, how fun is it to seek out “The One,” that near perfect instrument & rig that captures your sound? Almost like dating, it’s a numbers game – instruments, amps and effects pedals come and go. Eventually we learn what works…

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  August 1, 2019

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  20 Beers, 311, AKG Headphones, Bass, Bass Guitar, Basswitch, Cafe Walter HA-1, Conrad Lozano, Cris Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood Art, Cris Kirkwood Booted Orange Tongue, Dusty Hill, Feel, Gord Sinclair, Groove, It might get Loud, Jam, Lehle, Lehle Sonic Spark, Los Lobos, Meat Puppets, Music, Nylon Flat Bass Strings, P-Nut, Practice, Steinberger, Steinberger Synapse Bass, The HIP, The Tragically Hip, ZZ Top