About music nowadays: What a rip off!

Why mainstream music usually feels and sounds tacky? I don't want to deflect blame on anything or anybody but I have been exposed to the music of silver spoon kids for quite long. I know about their strenuous journey, lack of time and everything bad that comes with fame... Don't get me wrong, I do not want to denounce their contribution to their respective works, they paved their ways for bigger and better things in their lives and I have nothing but profound respect for them. I just think that the whole evaluation process is far out of whack. That is the way it is and there is no solution in sight.

Fortunately! Keep notable artists hidden and away from the masses.

As I indicated before, I truly believe that the driving force of music are independent artists. I intentionally do not use the term "indie", because I mean "independent" in every conceivable way. In order to do things properly, you need to do them on your own without any external pressure. You try to do something that was never done before, you diversify. I really feel that this liberal approach is absolutely crucial for basically any independent artist that needs to create a separation. Creating a separation is a fundamental cornerstone of the independent music nonetheless.

The all-time great Robert Johnson is a prime example of what is mentioned above. Almost nobody knows about him, because he and his talents could not embrace their constant struggle for recognition.  His impact on music is often diminished by our lack of perception and maybe even worse, by our ignorance. However, if it weren't for him, there would be no commercially succesfull band you have known and admired. Justin Bieber didn't start anything new. The Rolling Stones (Muddy Waters even had to create  their name) didn't start anything new. The Beatles didn't start anything new.  The timeless Robert Johnson had started it all. Many people fail to realize where rock music came from. This is a legitimate answer:

 No Robert Johnson. No Rock n' Roll. 

And yeah, Robert Johnson was not independent. He had the devil on his side.

The bad is meant to be broken

The whole idea of a man that lost his step somewhere along the line, struggling against a fatal disease and turned to a life of crime seems to be hasty at the very least. But this statement could not be any further away from the truth. The main plot revolves around protagonist Walter White and his transition from a good guy to a villainous alter ego called Heisenberg.

The Breaking Bad series has an abundance of raw moments that may not neccesarilly meet people's expectations. If you are looking for a tedious, pandering repetition and so called "lighthearted agreement with audience", go watch the likes of the Big Bang Theory. While watching the scenery of Breaking Bad, you feel like living in a world where literally anything can happen. It is crude and rough in a good sense. Momentum of each character changes exponentially in nearly every episode and therefore it is very hard to say how it all will turn out in the end.

Has there ever been a better opening theme than this one? The answer is: Nope.

The Verdict:
It does not have powerful quotes and lines like Mad Men. It does not contain showers of blood and gore as represented in Dexter. It is an unique tension and credibility of characters that make this show unanimously the best drama experience I have seen in years. The plot line can be interpreted as tantalizingly pessimistic, albeit extraordinarily thrilling and gripping at the same time. As opposed to any other mainstream channel, the American Movie Classics know how to put out a high quality product. And at long last, the bar is set very high. All hail the King.

The Language of Bees

It all began when I was just a little kid. I was about 7 years old and my mom bought me an English magazine with an audio cassette. Mommy was glad that I had shown some interest in a foreign language. But the thing that always sticks in my mind is a song that goes like this:

"Mr. Cat is very fat, very fat, very fat. Mr. Cat!"

I think that hearing this audiotape was my very first experience with the English language. By the time I was a student at my first basic school, I remember that I had to choose what language I want to learn. I had two options: English or German. I did not know what English stands for back then. So I asked my colleague this exact question:

"And where in this list is the language spoken by Americans?"

She had to tell me that English is the language I was looking for. I think it is quite obvious that I opted for English.  When I reminisce about my younger days, I have always wanted to learn the language of kings. But I just could not "learn" English at school. Unfortunately for me, nearly everybody had signed up for the English classes and just a few for the German. Aber da kann man nichts machen.

ABOUT ME

The beginning
Born on the 10th of July in Eastern Bohemia as the second child of my parents. Named after the original surname of my mother.  Raised in a very small and isolated village near Chrudim.

The past
At the very young age I used to play outside with my peers all day long. As the years went by I figured something out - whatever the majority of people was doing, I found myself doing the exact opposite. When my friends were smoking pot, I was working out. When they were learning for school, I was working out. My mother, for obvious reasons, did not appreciate this reluctance to learn for school very much. The consequence of my idiosyncratic conduct was that she signed me up later to the Elementary athletic school in Chrudim. I consider this step to this day as the breaking point of my life. I did not want to be an athlete at first because all I had ever known was european football. My boundaries of interest got pushed so quickly that I eventually changed my mind in the process. I won multiple various track & field championships in 60 meters and 150 meters dash. Afterwards I graduated from the Secondary school of management and business in Chrudim and shortly before that time I had become a member of the Czech national american football team within one year. Being a part of that team was not financially manageable, rather expensive and the risk of injury was way too high. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth and I did no longer wish to put my body at risk for the sake of entertainment.  These are just a few examples why I have decided to quit my beloved sport in the Czech Republic. Now I am a sophomore studying philology at the University of Pardubice.

The Future
As far as the future is concerned, I have always been a firm believer in everything that I need is not pertaining to the future but the present. In my case, what the future may bring changes a mile a minute and therefore I'm not able to predict what's to come. And that is the part I like about the life probably the most. The unpredictability full of surprises.

But as almost every reasonable person, even I have lifetime goals and I truly believe that I have been doing my part so far. Many of us tend to chew up the scenery and be the center of attention hand in hand with fame, fortune and limelight. People with these bright expectations come a dime a dozen. My all-time goals differ completely because I don't care about these things at all. Of course I will try to seize up every opportunity I get but the greatest achievement I could attain is to be the best person I can be, to maximize my potential. To put it all in a nutshell, the intangibles are a lot more important than money and wide recognition to me.

I should always pursue an advanced degree and turn my potential into reality, no matter what the circumstances are. That was instilled in me early on.