Starting a standard format for weekly meta posts. My reading and study backlog is getting under control now and nothing crazy is going on so I’m going to write more again. Obviously I spare to one meta post a week, but if they start piling up I’m going to feel like a real asshole with no clever title or anything, a blog full of excuses, a house of lies, a Beckett play with NO AUDIENCE. “Oh, look at me in the depths of existential angst with this audience of thousands and critical acclaim, respect from my fellow artists.” Sure, bub. I guess you’re bleak. Lo, but it is I who blog the blart of darkness. None have obscured their toil in more frosty a blackness; it is like unto the proverbial liquorice milkshake, inside the proverbial broken refrigerator at the bottom of the proverbial dead sea, inside the proverbial overlong sentence inside the proverbial blog no one reads. Ugh! That’s rough. Is it even possible to go on?
Dear imaginary reader, take a taste of a spin of the random album generator I’ve just cooked up. Disgusted? I am. But I’ve managed to queue up some reviews anyway. I go through it till I hit a double. There’s about 200 already. If I write 4 reviews a week I could catch up inside of a year. hahahahahahahahaha…oh you’re still here.
So, “we” established last post that no one who I was originally blogging for still blogs. Don’t matter. There’s other blogs. Make Believe Melodies is a great inspiration with this post. Patrick does freelance work but still keeps a really prolific blog covering a lot of new music (mostly Japanese.) I’m not trying to do the same thing, but he keeps the focus on really listening and committing to follow up on favorites, not just skimming over the surface of everything. I used to have that kind of focus and I think it’s worth keeping. That is a reason to blog. A reason…to love? Nope, just blog. It’s not that big a deal. Easy.
Let’s finish this up with some bullet points:
- Politics: fascists vs. hippies. We’re supposed to pick a side, right? Didn’t there used to be more than two sides? Talk about bleak. Shit is getting cartoony. Can I vote for Nader this time? The election is not ever going to be close is it? Is it too late for Nader? Could an old white guy be President? I actually like Obama, but I dunno. (take it) I think it’s safe to vote for Nader.
- Music(making): was this ever not a joke? I don’t know. But it needs work. It’s like a side project from a band that used to exist and/or one that may exist in the future. I can’t put that name on a shirt. (Altho someone did…wtf? What asshole would wear that?)
- Japanese: still blogging progress on Netlog in an incredibly shitty manner. Joined lang-8 on the advice on Tofugu’s 30 Days of Becoming a Better Japanese Learner but haven’t blogged there yet. (It’s a long 30 days, but I’m getting there).
- Jobs: I seem to give people the impression that I have a degree and should be applying for jobs that require one. Noticed that the Free Music Archive is hiring and has no such requirement. Am I qualified otherwise? Probably not. I should give it a shot anyway, don’t I think? I could have chance if no one else applies because seriously there’s got to be a grip of people more qualified. A grip. That’s right. Volunteering at WFMU is the only time I have ever felt any hope for humanity, even Andy Breckman. Getting paid for that would be unreal. It’s something I have to mention even if I have little chance of getting this particular position. Last time I was at Mitsuwa they had a help wanted sign and I seriously considered a 2-hr commute and actually started doing the math of how long I could that before I could make rent. It doesn’t work out at current gas prices. If there was any confusion, I do not make any money off the internet in any way. I’ve never even used computers much in any job I’ve had. Never wanted to work in an office for some dumb company, so I haven’t. Didn’t even put that much thought into it, didn’t seem like an option. Right now I work as a janitor and I walk dogs.
- This guy: Could be worse. %
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