The questions below have been each routinely asked from me in the course of the last few years, so I present you this possibly illuminating dossiér.
Q: Why are you not twittering or using some social networking site?
A: Because of these two reasons:
1. In short, browsing the mundane events of acquintances online is simply uninteresting to me.
There is scientific data on the very limited amount of contacts one considers meaningful.
University of Liverpool Professor Robin Dunbar concluded in 2003 that "150 friends is roughly the number of people you could ask for a favour and expect to have it granted." Within this group of acquintances, a clique of a maximum of 12 people can be considered "intimate".
According to a study documented in the June 2006 issue of the journal American Sociological Review, the average total number of confidants per citizen has dropped from four to two. To claim one's, say, 1463 social networking pals classify as any kind of confidants is ludicrous.
2. Social networking sites are precision-engineered to reduce one's privacy and many of them and their associates are irresponsible when it comes to their handling of private user data. Actually, they don't consider any user data to be private, as the news articles below demonstrate:
Google: Street View cars grabbed emails, urls, passwords >
Facebook bug spills name and pic for all 500 million users >
Facebook login page still leaks sensitive info >
Facebook's Broken Promises: Facebook Apps Leaking Private Data to Advertisers and Trackers >
Q: Do you still work in music?
A: Not really. There is simply too much competition in that field. Apart from the rather deplorable Idols-affairs, there are no incentives to forge ahead in the music industry as yet another minor player.
"Making it" in music can't be done through willpower and/or quality material alone. Some luck is definitely necessary in this strained and increasingly confused business. Also, finding motivated musicians is very challenging as most people don't really care about working on long-term goals in this field. Having said that, I do occasionally work on soundtracks for my own audiovisual projects.
Q: Why do you write stuff online and express yourself in general?
A: Please refer to Article 19 in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Based on that document I am merely exercising my human rights. If you find that offensive, you might feel more comfortable living in a failed state, to where I wholeheartedly recommend you relocate.