Tuesday, June 17, 2003
It's the end of July, just three more days until August. Though the calendar gives us another month and a half of summer, I can already feel it winding down. School begins in close to three weeks.
The beginning. I put out a zine for a long time, which included a lot of music reviews, some short, some long. From there, I started working for MRR, then got a "real" job writing about music for an Internet company. Thirty reviews a day, five days a week. All kinds of music. Punk, oldies, christian alternative, hard rock, R&B, country, grunge, 35 year-old guys living out their fantasies of being in Rush...you get the idea. And somewhere along the way I started writing for Blank Generation. Once in a while, i'd do something for a local weekly. It was a lot. A lot of writing about music. Too much.
As one might expect, I got really burnt out. Everything started sounding the same. Even when I just wanted to put on a record to listen to while I was in my darkroom, I'd start dissecting it, cut it open, looking at its guts. It'd be like if I were a surgeon and instead of just having a conversation with someone I felt the need to cut them open and find out how their vocal chords, brains and mouth worked to make words. I had to stop. So I did.
But the itch is still there. I don't write for MRR anymore (Mitch Cardwell now does the column I once wrote). I quit my Internet job to go to grad school, to become a photojournalist. Blank Generation, abandoned. The weeklies gave up on me and I don't forsee doing another issue of my zine anytime soon. So here I am. Inspired by Jay Hinman's music-blog, Agony Shorthand and Jeroen Vedder's Captain's Log (he now writes for The Next Big Thing) I finally decided to start this, another Blog about music.
Welcome and enjoy.
The beginning. I put out a zine for a long time, which included a lot of music reviews, some short, some long. From there, I started working for MRR, then got a "real" job writing about music for an Internet company. Thirty reviews a day, five days a week. All kinds of music. Punk, oldies, christian alternative, hard rock, R&B, country, grunge, 35 year-old guys living out their fantasies of being in Rush...you get the idea. And somewhere along the way I started writing for Blank Generation. Once in a while, i'd do something for a local weekly. It was a lot. A lot of writing about music. Too much.
As one might expect, I got really burnt out. Everything started sounding the same. Even when I just wanted to put on a record to listen to while I was in my darkroom, I'd start dissecting it, cut it open, looking at its guts. It'd be like if I were a surgeon and instead of just having a conversation with someone I felt the need to cut them open and find out how their vocal chords, brains and mouth worked to make words. I had to stop. So I did.
But the itch is still there. I don't write for MRR anymore (Mitch Cardwell now does the column I once wrote). I quit my Internet job to go to grad school, to become a photojournalist. Blank Generation, abandoned. The weeklies gave up on me and I don't forsee doing another issue of my zine anytime soon. So here I am. Inspired by Jay Hinman's music-blog, Agony Shorthand and Jeroen Vedder's Captain's Log (he now writes for The Next Big Thing) I finally decided to start this, another Blog about music.
Welcome and enjoy.
