Why Am I Doing This?
Why am i creating a blog on Friendster? Good lord, i have no clue. However, this is categorically untrue. While blogs are mostly reprehensible to me, i must admit I’m somewhat fascinated by them in a train-car pile-up sort of way.
Reasons I am creating a blog:
1) Procrastination from other pressing matters. Multi-tiered; also a delusional exercise. "If I write in a blog, soon I will be inspired to recommence with the project i started before I became preoccupied with excuses not to do real work!" A flagrant lie.
2) Masturbation. Everyone loves the sound of their own voice. Mine is particularily bel canto.
3) Minor-Key Shitdisturbing - I refuse to link everytime i make mention of Johnny Awesome’s blog. The fact that people get upset over non-links or whatever the jargon or ettiquette is in the *Cough* blogosphere, is all the more reason not to link to someone and or create a blog for that sole specific purpose.
4) Laziness. A blog is bad enough, but a blog on Friendster. Jesus. If i had the patience with blogspot, i would take my half-hearted blog there and intially i did, but it broke or something… I couldn’t figure it out and since i’m a product of instant gratification, when it failed, i bailed. One would assume and hope that once I use my brain for more than 2 seconds, i will have a blog elsewhere, but as of right now, this is easy as pie. Oh, btw, did I mention i work on the web as a producer for a living?
5) Exhibitionism. Such a loathsome trait and the main reason i detest blogs in theory, but i assume the main reason i am writing one and an not writing a personal journal is because i am secretly hoping somone will read it and think i am brilliant or something. I mean, i can only imagine that’s the only reason any person who claimed they hated blogs (like myself), would create a blog.
It’s definitely a quandry, an ugly paradox. Almost every time i read a blog, the smugness overwhelms me and i would love the capability to instantly punch the writer in the face. To qualify, most of the blogs i’m talking about have an audience, Stereogum, etc. music/culture blogs that feel self-important and carry a vague sense of authority about them (i.e. "tune in and i will let you in on some variant of hipness you weren’t aware of!") I probably will/would do the same, but the idea is vomitous. You can also make up words which is kind of fun.
i hate blogs. I do. Let’s face it. I wrote a thing called the Playlist from 2000-03. It was pre-blog and smug as fuck. I think part of my hatred of blogs is perhaps the fact that what i was doing was too far ahead of it’s time. (hahaah, did i just write that? Sad…) Then again, i started to hate myself and what me and my partner Angelo were writing. I think it really got some venom and frustration out of me that I’m not sure i possess anymore. Perhaps that was the point.
Either way, there’s definitely mixed feelings on the matter. I don’t want to write about music here, that’s for sure. Anyhow, what is the point of blogs that just point to funny stories? I wrote one sentence and the punch line is my link! Oh that’s clever "writing," huh? I hate blogs.
May 11th, 2005 at 6:12 am
i always read the playlist as you know all to well — “concerned thoughts of a friend - year end issue” was it 2003? dont remember ..
looking forward to future posts on the playlist part deux….
i think we are doing this — and maybe people in general do this — because 1. we are self obsessed geeks 2. we are charming self obsessed geeks who think we know a thing or two about a thing or two (quote from This Boy’s Life) and want to share.. pass the courvoisier