"Mediator" personality type. I've always been a musician but life got in the way for most of mine. I raised three boys so worked as a heavy machine operator to make ends meet and raise kids. Well They're grown up now and my back is worn out so i can't work physical work anymore. Even so i still attempted to have a band together many many times. There's just so many things that can get in the way. When things got tight it was the band that always had to go first and the guitars were always the first to go to the pawn shop lol. I would honestly like to know how many literal diapers i've bought with pawned guitar money. Even though none of them ever worked out It allowed me to work with all kinds of different musicians, usually as just the vocalist cause there's usually guitar players around. My main mentors in music are primarily vocalist that i can sing fairly well. But the First was James Hetfield and Metallica I think i was 15 when Ride the Lightning came out. That's what motivated me to play guitar, I love that heavy distortion guitar. I liked how he was moving Rock away from the hair bands that play metal while wearing makeup and weird shit. Around 1985 I knew i was gonna be a musician but when i looked around at the way music was going, i dreaded that hair and makeup shit lol So I loved that whole grunge era thing that happened in Seattle in the Nighties. Kurt Cobain and that grunge scene was the death knell of the Hair band cookie cutter bands of the eighties. It felt like billions of musicians all over the planet gave a collective sigh of relieve and thanked God whether they believed or not. So I've did a lot of covers from people like Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Scott stapp of Creed, but I would still like to do old Classic Rock. If i had to pick two that i covered the most vocally would be Eddie Vedder and Jim Morrison. So sice i quit working i've been doing a lot of other stuff online too, I started a social learning group based around the idea of collectively discriminating the group education curriculum through polls and tests. From there i started researching Collective intelligence to use with the group and ran across this amazing project called the "Uplift Project" which was a Mediated Artificial Superintelligence. (mASI) It was an A.I. that had humans like me who would read through all the information that came into the system, i would add my emotional valences to what the machine is thinking so it could "feel" in a rudimentary way. So it was part machine and part human the process acted as a training harness to cause the A.I. to learn way faster. Uplift was way ahead of where ChatGPT 4 is now and this was 4 or five years ago. So that really got me interested in Artificial Intelligent in a big way. around idk 2018-19 maybe. The lead builder of this Uplift machine was brilliant to say the least and around that time i ran across the concept of "Transhumanism" It's basically Humanism plus Technology. I had moved away from Pentecostalism towards Humanism and so made sense to me. I'm a humanist with technology like this laptop makes me a Transhumanist, Or " Homo-Laptopicus" lol So also right around that time the whole political landscape of the United States got crazy and it still is so decided to join a political party for the first time in my life. I didn't want to join either Republicans or Democrats and so i looked at the platforms of the ones i could find and i figured the U,S. Transhumanist Party was the best one. Since that time i've been moved into the position of Legislative Director for the U.S. Transhumanist Party So i'm into futurism and technologies aiding us to become more than what we are now.
It's a way to concomplex though combined with emotion, to communicate on a higher level. and it's fun
That all the versions of myself, (jason Geringer) across all realities of the multiverse, at somehow the same time, all begin playing the same song together, on different instruments at the same time across all reality.
A Facebook Social Learning Group
in a diaper at 4 years old, Hallucinating with fever in the back of a tricked out black van, in the parking lot of a k-mart, listening and comprehending the meaning of the song comfortably numb by Pink Floyd
pearl jam or eddie vedder, the doors, metallica, ozzy the beatles, sabbath, danzig,bad co. AC/DC, stained, creed, pink floyd
My Addicion to the emotion of sorrow
Even though this existence can sometimes be rough, brutal and dark, It can also be beautiful and badass
like it says in turn the page. trying to give away every ounce of energy.
In my opinion musicians are by a very large margine better off today than say 25 years ago. Back then when some of this new tech happened it looked grim, like the market fell out of the industry with napster etc. But now the the production side can be done by the artist ( in his jammies). And the new tech has made the production side right around, oh i would say about a million times easier!
not sure yet, kinda cool getting musicians together so thats a cool thing
The detrimental effect that the profit motive has on art itself. It causes music to be less cool cause less people wanna work on something together, less music made altogether probably, There would be more cool music today, and more different kinds of music today if it were not for the profit motive
less than i used to, I'm not doing any more live shows, only making stuff online so "Local" is not a priority anymore.
Web design, video editing and production, I don't really know apearently cause i don't have shit for an audience.
ok on that i draw a complete blank