What's Next For This Blog

So as you can see, I changed the name and the URL to reflect my new ideas for this blog. My plan is to start writing about music. Here's how that came about: Tonight (well, now yesterday) I made my weekly pilgrimage to Bull Moose to browse around and spend lots of money on CDs. While I was there, I found myself looking though the $2 VHS bin, with a vague notion of "hey, there might be an entertainingly bad movie here and I could watch it and...wait no, shit, I already know somebody who does that (and does it very well by the way, check out her blog here)". But the idea of blogging about SOMETHING stuck with me...earlier this week I stumbled across another friend's blog (here if you are curious) and had to log into my blogger account to post a comment, which reminded me that "oh hey you started a blog too a while back".

Anyway, I was in the car, unwrapping my purchases (very successful run, btw: Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke, New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too and the movie "Across the Universe" out of the discount bin) and it hit me - I could have some things to say about music. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense...over the last several months, music has become a lot more important to me, and I've started listening to a much bigger variety of different stuff (Bonnaroo helped with that). I was having a conversation about Vitalic with another friend a couple of days ago, where I referred to them as "more abstract than the music I typically listen to". Huh...kind of a clue that I might be descending into the early stages of music nerdery (in the "wow, what an indie nerd" sense, not the "wow, he can play lots of instruments" sense, though I would not call myself an indie nerd either).

Anyway, there is a lot of music that I have been listening to lately that I have stuff to say about, so I figure I'll say it here. If nothing else, it will be interesting to me. I have several albums in mind that I want to talk about at some point:
Oracular Spectacular by MGMT (Time to Pretend in particular is an important song for me)
Ocean Eyes and Maybe I'm Dreaming by Owl City (and Owl City in general to some extent)
Alive 2007 by Daft Punk
Before the Dawn Heals Us and Saturdays=Youth by M83
In Ghost Colours and Bright Like Neon Love by Cut Copy
Dystopia by Midnight Juggernauts
21st Century Breakdown by Green Day (yes, really)
Shout, the Very Best of Tears for Fears by (guess who!) Tears for Fears
Phoenix by Asia
and probably a lot of other stuff, I may regret giving myself even a list that big. I reserve the right to...well, do whatever I want. There is totally music out there that I would like to talk about but not cover the whole album, or whatever else. I'll probably do the odd non-music post too.

Anyway, that's the new hotness. Hope ya'll like the idea...
-A