Themes!

I'm thinking that to spice this thing up, I'm going to do theme weeks once every so often. Trying to set a limit or timeframe on it (e.g. once a month*) will only box me in and probably cause the quality of the posting to suffer, so I'm going to do theme weeks once every whenever-I-damn-well-feel-like-it.

Anyone who knows me in real life (i.e. most of my readers*) knows that I spend a lot of time downtown locally catching shows in various states of inebriation. So, for the first theme week, I'm going to go with bands that can often be found playing in downtown St. John's. Pretty broad, but picking seven of my favorites shouldn't be too bad.

Stay tuned!

* = Fun fact: I had to run across my bedroom to the poster I have of The Oatmeal's When To Use I.E. In A Sentence to actually write the above without screwing it up.

A Blogger's Lament

To be a blogger, whether it be a personal blog, a blog about something you love; whatever, is an experience. A blogger pours somewhere between a few minutes and a few hours of themselves into a piece hoping that it might reach people. It's a wonderful thing; you've got an end product, and whether ten people or ten thousand people read what you've written, you've made some sort of ripple in the water that is the world around you.

...Well, that's the dramatic and picturesque version.

The reality is that everyone and their brother has three blogs and follows three hundred others. The reckless abandon of putting a piece of yourself out into the world turns into reckless abandonment once you realize that next-to-nobody read it or cared.

I have to admit that, as of 101810, that was why I finally gave up; the enjoyment I was getting out of blogging wasn't worth the time input to me. I left this blog as a tab on my web browser's link bar, and it acted as an occasional sad reminder of something I enjoyed, but not that much.

That is, until recently, when a friend asked me out of the blue what happened to my blog. She wasn't the first to ask, but it was the length of time that her memory persisted that caught me off guard. Others have mentioned it as an aside when talking about blogging, but in this instance, it was an out of the blue "why don't you do it anymore?" The reason that I'd quit back then just wasn't a good enough answer to that question.

So, back to the ten-or-ten-thousand measure at the start of this post; I find myself re-energized to write for whatever audience I merit. I came back and finished the long tagging-my-backlog-of-posts process that I started and that probably helped drive me away from the blog in the first place, and I've experienced music more frequently and personally this summer than at any other time in my life. I can't promise that I'm here to stay, but I do feel compelled to give it another go.

Stay tuned!