I was on Kazaa just now (I know, I know, Trent Lott is going to figure out a way to blow up my computer) and one user in particular was giving me good download times on my Peter Tosh songs. I peeked into his directory, looking for the rest of "Legalize It," and also found a fair bit of music with Hawaiian-sounding names.
My father-in-law lives in Hawaii, and unlike my sister-in-law, I wasn't driven crazy by the local radio station on my last visit, so I thought I'd download a couple of songs. I chose a few at random, and soon, the user in question sent me an instant message. (I'd forgotten you can even do that on Kazaa). I wish I'd copy-pasted it, as it was pretty cool in retrospect...he noted that I was downloading his "local tunez" and wanted to know where I was, if I had any similar music, etc. Well, he may have been slightly bummed that I was investigating on a whim and didn't have any to swap (though I offered him some old blues), but he was very pleasant nonetheless and we had a nice, if brief, chat. He's from Hawaii (duh) but now lives in Las Vegas. He left to make dinner, but wished me happy ripping.
The Aloha Spirit is alive and well in Nevada.
(For once, I'm not being a smart-ass. Hawaiians really are, in my limited experience, more laid-back and friendly than mainlanders. My father-in-law rightly pointed out that cashiers and other service industry people smile at you and seem to mean it -- it's not a great job, no, but the daily grind doesn't seem to *grind* quite as hard. If someone honks their car horn at you in Hawaii, it's a tourist. It's a good culture, one that the other 49 states, particularly the ones on the east coast, could do worse than to cultivate.)
(Final, conscience-induced parenthetical note: I rarely download full albums from Kazaa, unless I already bought them on tape in the early 90s, or I already bought them on CD and the CD was ripped off when I was robbed in 2002. I'll buy the damn Peter Tosh album when I start getting regular paychecks again, promise.)
My father-in-law lives in Hawaii, and unlike my sister-in-law, I wasn't driven crazy by the local radio station on my last visit, so I thought I'd download a couple of songs. I chose a few at random, and soon, the user in question sent me an instant message. (I'd forgotten you can even do that on Kazaa). I wish I'd copy-pasted it, as it was pretty cool in retrospect...he noted that I was downloading his "local tunez" and wanted to know where I was, if I had any similar music, etc. Well, he may have been slightly bummed that I was investigating on a whim and didn't have any to swap (though I offered him some old blues), but he was very pleasant nonetheless and we had a nice, if brief, chat. He's from Hawaii (duh) but now lives in Las Vegas. He left to make dinner, but wished me happy ripping.
The Aloha Spirit is alive and well in Nevada.
(For once, I'm not being a smart-ass. Hawaiians really are, in my limited experience, more laid-back and friendly than mainlanders. My father-in-law rightly pointed out that cashiers and other service industry people smile at you and seem to mean it -- it's not a great job, no, but the daily grind doesn't seem to *grind* quite as hard. If someone honks their car horn at you in Hawaii, it's a tourist. It's a good culture, one that the other 49 states, particularly the ones on the east coast, could do worse than to cultivate.)
(Final, conscience-induced parenthetical note: I rarely download full albums from Kazaa, unless I already bought them on tape in the early 90s, or I already bought them on CD and the CD was ripped off when I was robbed in 2002. I'll buy the damn Peter Tosh album when I start getting regular paychecks again, promise.)
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