Actually Using This Thing
I will sidestep the tiresome cliché of opening the first post in a long time with an apologia enumerating my reasons for not having posted in a long time. Suffice it to say: I did, and do, intend to funnel my blogo-energies into layout customization and such pretty soon, and also I’m really lazy.
There is much too much stuff to talk about. I’d be remiss if I used this space here and now either to gloss over the world’s various catastrophes and reduce my nuanced and no doubt laceratingly brilliant insights on each topic to crude punchlines, OR to go into soporific detail on any one of them. So instead, I’ll give you a quick bullet-pointed list of what’s going on in my personal life.
• I’m at a point where teaching drum lessons full time is profitable enough that I no longer need to supplement my income with the emasculating nightmare-generator that is a minimum-wage job. Yahoo.
• Things being as they gloriously are, I’m quitting Movie Madness in two weeks.
• I will be celebrating this emancipation with a trip to LA, to commence virtually the moment I clock out of my last shift. I’ll be there from August 31 to September 12.
• I’m writing a lot of songs. At Dusk is on a brief vacation, what with Cary in MontefreakingNegro and all, and I’m meanwhile getting a good stack of acoustic tunes together on my own, and also rekindling the 2delicious fires with my friend and engineer extraordinaire Chris Anderson. 2delicious, for those of you not in the know, is a hip-hop/dance fusion project on which Chris and I broke ground about a year ago, and then had to abandon entirely in order to focus our energies on You Can Know Danger, and Chris’s other major time-abyss of 2005/06/04, the Strength album (which, for my money, is the best album of 2006 so far, and by dint of greatness has retroactively nullified all of the grief that I gave those guys about their perfectionism during the Hundred Years Recording Process that it seemed to require). I like making music, on a computer, that is purpose-engineered to move butts, at the very least because it’s such a far cry from how I normally operate in terms of priorities.
• A little off-topic, but: Chris and I refer to 2delicious as 2del, just for private shorthand, and… well, check out what www.2del.com currently is. I guess we won’t be able to register that domain after all.
• I’ve seen many movies recently. I’m back up to an average that approaches the voluminous input I was enjoying back in the Video West days. I think I might follow Jem’s lead and do a capsule review post soon, but I’m comfortable revealing now that the best of them was, uh… either The Wicker Man (which was totally captivating though I only really watched it in the first place because I’m going to need to substantiate all the animadversion I’ll be directing at the remake even though I probably won’t see it), or The Wages of Fear.
• I am still reading a very, very long book.
I am tired and I’m going to bed. Stay tuned, now, officially, for more posts soon.
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