NoobTube

should have been done with a new post yesterday but my eyes were balls of pain due to sleep deprivation, i stayed up late the other night (well, until the wee hours of the following morning) taking advantage of YouTube's faster loading of video files (those hordes of cyber sociable kids preening their Friendster's page with embedded videos bring YouTube to its knees during the day), i didn't know what had gotten into me but others call it nostalgia: i watched all (well, maybe not all, but a lot, A LOT) those music videos i missed when i was about those Friendster kids age, back then our poorly angled four-element TV antennae caused me a lot of heartache as it usually picked up nothing but static especially during the weekends when i could have caught America's Top Ten, Video Hot Tracks or Video Hit Parade on Channels 9 and 2, respectively, cable tv then was just beginning to creep in our neighborhood and it was such a luxury my poor parents could ill afford, i simply listen with glassy eyes to my better blessed high school classmates talked about China Crisis' Wishful Thinking was incoherent yet an eyecandy nevertheless; or A-ha's Take on Me was amazing in that it's rotoscoped presentation was both traditional and futuristic (!?!); or Joe Jackson's Breaking Us In Two was ohhh sooo mushy but unforgettable (who can blame the romantically hopeless adolescents); or Belinda Carlisle being a standard wet dream in her suggestive movements in Heaven Is A Place On Earth, it was a blast wallowing in the memories of my younger time in front of the pc monitor burning my eyes in all its bright radioactive glare, guzzling coffee by the mugs, tapping my feet on the floor, drumming the desk with my fingers, nodding and bobbing my light-as-hot-air-balloon head and plunging myself into a world of regret in hindsight

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come the morning after, my head was a mass of throbbing living pain reminiscent of another dimension in my life when quality time with friends was measured by blood alcohol content and the intensity of the hangover, but back then simply losing a night's sleep was no big deal, but then again checking reality reminds me that i am only younger in my daydreams, so i endured the penalty for my previous night's romp down memory lane aboard YouTube: a whole day of fighting monstrous sleepiness to keep myself from keeling over while babysitting part-time students part-time cyberwarriors, phoney chatters and copy-paste-print "re-researchers," and when you are sleep-deprived other unnameable sensations of tortures simultaneously kick-in to remind you with a vengeance that Hypnos and the Sandman are not to be messed with: you seem to feel your brain has somewhat shrunk a bit and its attachment to the inside walls of the cranium (is that the meninges? the surface that gets inflamed in meningitis? oh well, i'm where?) has loosened and every little movement of the head rocks the "suspended" brain sending violent responses in megavoltages of shimmering pain particularly targeting the eyeballs, ahrg!, and true to its essence Murphy's Law rule the moment: there's nothing left of the stockpiled mefenamic acid just when you need to pop the whole blister pack

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YouTube, iFilm and other flash-based video sharing websites may become a thing of the past or may be reduced into a stale watered-down stump of its current lively form, the battering ram aiming to dismantle these successful sites is the focused effort by the copyright lobby (think RIAA and MPAA) and its growing influence on the US lawmaking body which in turn has the power to whip out international carrot-or-stick compliance mechanism, i have several night stands and quickies more to indulge with YouTube to get to watch some more of my teen year's music videos before the copyright police finally reduce the site into a repository of largely amateur videos whose significance barely deserves neither bandwidth nor server space

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the music i mentioned above represent my musical taste back in high school, in the middle of blah! college i heard Metallica and i was eaten alive by metal music, i have grown somewhat compromising lately and i now enjoy other musical genres like corny pop, tiresome r&b, relaxing trip-hop, danceable reggaeton, trippy reggae and confrontational gangsta rap, my YouTube trip the other night was capped by great heavy new ones: Pearl Jam's Life Wasted (a stylish anti-war protest), Amorphis' House Of Sleep (forget these Swedish guys' usually-lost-in-translation lyrics, their new vocalist gives a more evolved Amorphis sound) and Sepultura's Convicted In Life (a metal animal rights advocacy anthem, PETA people are having multiple orgasms with every spin this music video), go check them out

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