Oh man, titles. There’s an art. I could tell you…man.

I’ve painted myself into a corner. It was the perfect plan: paint self into corner, then enjoy some sweet, sweet standin’ & lookin’. Is there anything more satisfying than that first step onto tasty, fresh, completely dry floor paint after witnessing the full majesty that is the paint drying process? I think not.

But enough about my life, let’s talk internet. I announced the end of meta posts— so this can’t possibly be one—and have started working on a review. But I can’t seem to get through it without a particular meta topic polluting it to the point of total distraction.

It’s social networks. I used to have a consistent standard of rules for these things. If it got stupid, I would just quit that one and start over. Things seem to be getting more stable with these sites…and this is the problem. Networks in real life are fuzzy and chaotic. People come and go (or don’t) often for no reason. I felt like I had reached some kind of emotional maturity about this stuff in real life and it applied the same way online. But that was years ago.

I now have a different set of friend-adding rules for each profile. I’ll be going into these in this new ‘networks’ category. Been trying to sum it all up in one post but this is obviously an evolving subject. All of this is about different aspects of culture and finding (a) place(s) in it. Music is a part of culture and recordings are really just concrete artifacts of specific social networks actualizing themselves. I want to share my experience with something that can be experienced by others; you can listen to the records and have your own experience. If you’ve already had the experience you can share it in the comments or link from your own site or whatever. If you haven’t heard the record, me telling you about it is part of your experience. (You could leave that part out, I’ll never know.) Everyone’s experience is valid.

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