How time flies when you’re enjoying yourself!
I started this blog one year ago today. In between chomping on some cake and slurping champagne I allow myself a brief moment to reflect on the blogging highs and lows over this 12 month period.
I began the blog with the idea of it allowing a means of putting out ‘there’ quotes and thoughts that seem important enough to merit sharing. Most of these fall into three broad categories of :
- ageing/living/dying – I turned 50 during this year and while this currently feels like a milestone rather than a millstone it inevitably makes questions of mortality more pressing.
- belief – Q Is there a God? A – No . But what we believe in gives us soul. Animal that soul!
- new weird music – my main listening passion / obsession over the past 4 years, so much so that I still harbour dreams of writing the definitive book on this ‘genre’. Many pieces that end up in this blog are spinoffs from this as yet unfulfilled project.
Other entries fall into the crevices that lie between these weighty topics.
My fourth blog entry on May 28th – a very brief poem by Ivor Cutler – amounts to roughly half of the total hits (over 16,000 readers) . The choice of image (a brick wall!) serves as some form of bizarre bait in Cyberspace – I have searched in vain for an image / topic that draws an equivalent response.
May 2008 is the first month in which I have succeeded in writing a post every day. It remains to be seen if I can keep this up but the more I post the more I want to post – therein lies the addiction.
My favourite posts are the two online interviews I did with Marco Mahler (Dec. 7) and Rob St John (Feb 16) – both musical ‘unknowns’ who deserve a wider audience.
The most pointless post I made was of the ridiculous advertising photo of Materazzi (July 2) – this entry seems superficial and hardly fits with the theme of the blog. Similarly the post on Asshotel (Sept 22)is a bit throwaway but the shots of pert behinds of Brazilian beauties acts as a more predictable lure and when all’s said and done has to be preferable to staring at a brick wall!
I turned 50 just after i started, too: it must be a mid life non-crisis type thing…..assuming we live to be 100 🙂
Belated happy 50th – I’m glad you said NON-crisis – this feels too positive to be put down to a male menopause option! Long may we blog.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation 🙂 Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Crustaceous.