Good Morning / Mission Statement

Well, here it is. Another blog. This is at least my 4th new blog and who knows what number rededicate this is to committing time and effort into this endeavor. Let me answer the questions you probably have right now-

Why am I starting a new blog? It’s because I had too many blogs. Before you think too hard about that I will explain – I had too many different avenues for writing and none of them really appeal to me right now. Newslang was a great idea but is too formal for what I want to do now. The stuff I wrote for that blog took me way too long to write (sometimes as much as 2 hours due to constant mid-flight revisions) and was too formal for my liking. I also decided to quarantine my thoughts on music to that blog, basically stripping my “regular” blog of anything interesting that I had to say. I still like the idea I have for Left of the Dial and I’m keeping the door open on writing more formal things for newslang still, but I think I need something less static right now.

So what does that mean for this blog? It’s going to be a “real” blog – which means I’m going to use it for different things. Sometimes I’ll use it to rant/rave about music. Sometimes I’ll use it to talk about things I’m interested in other than music (mostly books, sports, and occasionally TV or movies). Sometimes I’ll use it to talk about my personal life or tell an amusing story.

The title? No, I don’t think that the RnR era is over but I really like the phrase. It’s from Pavement’s “Fillmore Jive” from the album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain which you really need to own. It came into my head today as I read that New York’s K-Rock might be switching formats to some kind of talk radio bullshit. For the record, K-Rock stopped being interesting the same time that “Modern Rock” stopped being interesting.

And finally – why now? Well, I’m a few months into my “extended summer vacation” between graduating from college in May until I (hopefully) get back to school in September ‘06. This is one way that I’m trying to keep my brain from completely melting.

So that’s it for explaining myself. Feel free to throw in your two cents by leaving comments or whatever. If you say something interesting, good for you.

BW