I remember, when I was in high school, and the 'zine/press-your-own-damn-records era was in full swing thanks to Simple Machines, Riot Grrrl and the like… I felt like I was sitting on my hands and couldn't do ANYTHING despite having all this awesome support available and a burgeoning community of producers, because I didn't have the money to do photocopies and postage, and I didn't have money to buy instruments and start my own band (etc etc). If I was 15 again today, though, I'd be ALL OVER making my own YouTube videos and websites and… (you get the idea).

In a way, I'm kind of jealous of the kids who are growing up in *this* era, because they have access to even more means of easy media distribution than we ever did. But it pleases me to no end to think that we've got an entire generation of media producers coming up who think this is the way it's always been and will treat it as such.

(God, I feel old now).

It's an amazing speech!

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/josswh…

It is no longer the time of sitting around and thinking about doing something.

I have been feeling this way in my life a lot recently, and it's a message I've been getting from many sources for about a year now, and so it's clearly something the universe wants me to see. Nothing could be more anvily than Joss saying it in an interview with you.