Temp: 25 degrees
It's strange how 25 degrees feels so chilly now...
There's a cool ocean wind sweeping eastward, and while the sky is as clear and blue as it was 2 days ago, the air temperature is a full 10 degrees less. I spent a couple hours kicking back in the yard, listening to music and jotting down lyrics (yeah, I've started writing some stuff so that hopefully I'll have a complete album to record come the fall).
But most of this evening I've spent tweaking my MySpace page. I resisted this myspace thing for soooo long, but finally gave in to peer pressure. My argument has always been "I've got a personal blog, I've got a band website, I've got several other personal websites, a family site, and a photo site so why on earth would I want to sign up on a 'personals' site... just because everyone else is doing it?"
Well, slowly but surely I gave in. First I just made a blank template to reserve my name but then Carole added me as a friend and got one of her co-workers to add me too. So now I felt guilty that there was no content to look at, so I added a picture, some bands, and answered a few of the stock questions. But then I started looking around and saw that other people were using cool templates for their pages, so I began designing my own - simply because if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it right... I'm kinda anal that way, generally right up to the point where I give up out of frustration...
So now I've got an okay template, but no real content and only two friends. I decide to give my site a musical theme, and begin requesting adds from some of my favorite bands... to my surprise, many of them actually accept - well, that's pretty cool, so the other day I decided to write a blurb about my musical interests, favorite bands, influences, and how my tastes have changed over the past 20 years. Well, that really got me thinking about how I was only adding bands that are my favorites "this month" but was totally neglecting virtually all of my all-time favorites. So tonight I've been kicking back on the couch with my laptop on my knee searching for all my favorite bands of all time. And at the same time, as I think of people, I'm searching for people I know/knew too. I know, I know, I've become the typical lamo MySpace user - what has come over me???
The upside is, I'm learning a lot about what all my old favorite bands are still up to, it's like a total blast from the past and has been pretty fun. Hopefully once I've got the page looking okay I can just forget about it for a while ... like anything I sink my teeth into, once I think the job is done, I move on. I guess time will tell.
For now, it's just fun to invent a hardcore persona - sure, that's all the music I like, but obviously it's only a fraction of who I am ... anyone who's been reading this blog for the past 3+ years will know that. Wanna checkout my rockstar persona? Here it is again ... I'm calling myself Ephemeral Demise, 'cause of all the band names I've been tossing around for my next solo project, that's the name that has stuck in my head the longest without me getting sick of it.
Posted by Calvin at June 28, 2006 09:34 PMGlad to see you back writing again!
It sounds like you are fully enjoying our beautiful summer.