Beginnings

In the summer I have a lot of time to think, or at least, I have a lot of time in which I don't feel bad about thinking. Maybe I actually think more when I don't feel like I have the luxury, when instead of steadily tunneling my way through the neverending pile of work standing in the way of graduation, I lay on my bed, turn on the music, and stare at the first letter of the page. But I'm supposed to shake those thoughts out of my head and work on the second letter.

I also have a lot of time in which I listen to music. But I don't have an outlet for it as I do in the school year, when the good songs are filed onto my next radio playlist or the artist is written about in my next column. I don't have an excuse to share the music I really like with the people I really like. And, not that I need one when I have nothing better to do, but, I like having a reason to look up old interviews with musicians, and memorize details from their website and wiki entries, and look up their back-catalog. And I also like having a reason to think about my musical responses, what they says about the music, and maybe on a deeper level, what they say about me.


I've tinkered with the idea of starting a music blog for some time now. Sooo..I'll see how it goes.