hi,
this is my blog. i think i might put things up here that i'm working on, or things that i'm interested in. i'm pretty sure this is a fairly well-known idea by now, but i'm fascinated by the parallel between modern-day blogs and commonplace books. hopefully this can be something like that. however, i'm a little wary of manifestos/totalizing statements, so i'm not sure i want to say what will/will not appear here.
i've had a little experience with blogging services before. a couple of my friends and i wrote about music for almost a year i'd say under the name GIRL ATTORNEYS. that was a funny experience because i think we eventually got sniped by Blogger for either posting a link to LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening or The New Pornographers' Together (i can't remember) when it leaked. also really funny was that i got sent Shelby Lynne promos - god they must have been desperate. anyway, a lot of the posting on GIRL ATTORNEYS was posting of leaks like that, however, i did create some longer form pieces (i.e. enthusing about R.E.M.'s Chronic Town), which i mourned the loss of the other day (it appears the waybackmachine never crawled GIRL ATTORNEYS ... how devastating).
after that i maintained a tumblr for a while. this was interesting, but - as lame as this might sound - i didn't really feel like i could maintain an identity there. the world of tumblr is fascinating definitely - reblogging, the memeplex (is this a word?), etc. - but i'm not sure if i really saw myself in it. it did give me this though, for which i owe it a lot. and this.
anyway, yeah.
also, if you haven't checked out the new Chromatics record, Kill For Love, do so if you want. i took it for a night drive today, a la this, and it totally wrecked me.
other suggested Chromatics listening environment.
oh god, tired.
goodnight,
joel
