I am a writer. I love music. I like to write about music. Seems simple enough doesn’t it? Then why is maintaining a blasted blog so blasted difficult? Is it school? Stress? Distraction? I have no idea, but I’m going to keep trying this shit until it sticks and sticks right. The mode of my long time writing style has been exhaustively analytical and lengthy reviews. I like to talk about what I’m talking about. But now I need to try something new. I have found to my irritation that it is difficult for me to assign time to write out said lengthy reviews. Thusly, I’m going to try focusing on making shorter, punchier articles that get to the point and don’t waste time doing it. This will be an interesting challenge seeing as how I usually like to cram as much info into what I’m writing as possible and will force me to highlight the intensively important elements of whatever I’m talking about. So instead of Progressive Rock, I’m turning to Hooky Pop Music (Think Pixies instead of Pink Floyd.) In my writing style that is, I’ll still write about whatever I feel like. I’m hoping that the shorter nature of the articles will allow for a more accessible time exploring the blog. That and it might be easier on me. (Knocks on wood.)
More over, I’m not just going to do album reviews, but try to continue the radio style pieces I did a few of during the last round and also incorporate a few new ideas into the blog as well. Now, as to posting frequency. For a little while, I tried to post everyday to keep people engaged and that wore me out. I don’t know how often I’ll be posting with school on, but I’ll try to make it worth your while to check in and see what I’ve cooked up at least once a week. But don’t hate me if I can’t keep to that. This is an experiment.
In closing, I feel it is important to mention why I’m doing this and why I’ve let you in particular know about it. I love music. It helps me stay sane and gives my life color (cause my clothing doesn’t.) I love sharing music I think people will like/should hear with people most of all in some ways and I’m going to keep trying to do that on and off the computer. If you’re tagged in this note then it’s because I like you, care about you and want to share something that I get a kick out of with you. I realize I come off as a music snob at times, but ultimately I just know what I like and what I don’t. My only request of you, should you choose to accept it, is that you take a minute of your day to try what I put in front of you. You never know, you might like it. And tell me if you do. If you don’t that’s fine, maybe you’ll like the next one. Who knows? I don’t. All I know is I’m driven to do this stuff and I show no signs of giving up. So here it goes… again… Wish me luck. Thank you all for your time. Cheers.
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