(I prefer to avoid swiping song titles for my works, but will probably overdo it for blog posts. That one's from a blazing old Husker Du track.)
So, been pondering this blog for months now. What do I have in mind?
Well, even since last night, have realized I should probably post at least once per day to get rolling, find my blogging voice again, and so forth. Don't think that will take long though. Every so often, I think, "I don't know what or how to blog," and then remind myself, Duh, I used to blog at deviantART just fine.
But what's the plan here? First and foremost, to get back out in the public with art and photography. It's been too long since exiling myself back out into obscurity. And the reality is that having "a public" really motivates me to get the work done.
But too, there's just so much more to share than that. Perspectives on music, philosophy of living, strategies for photography, insights into art, sharing my influences... and, of course, telling some stories.
On one hand, am constantly checked by an unease toward any form of self-aggrandizement. But on the other, can look back at almost twenty years in which younger people have really appreciated my point of view (sociopersonally during my 20's in Memphis, internetionally during my 30's in Lexington), and think, it's time to create a new functional venue for the same thing.
(And if I could coin a useful term like "internetionally" and it catches on, that would never suck either.)
My actual lifestyle now is very quiet and serene compared to most people. Teaching for four hours a day - an extraordinary kind of social time for a reformed extrovert - but then living most of my life in solitude which I quite enjoy. But much of that solitude results exactly from the lack of cohorts along my own lines around here. Only one friend who's really passionate about music, for example, or only one guy with a kindred spirit for photography or Photoshop (and whom I ultimately had to part ways with).
Though I suppose I'm not so good at looking very hard around here. It's too easy for me to enjoy the solitude. Underneath it all, this blog will be pushing back against my own hermitic tendencies. "Life is too short to enjoy it by oneself."
For the moment, simply writing to myself before "going public with all this" in a few days, and ultimately the criteria will be usefulness. But as a time capsule, it seems "useful" to flex the mind a bit and ask, "what's the goal here?"
To create a place for hanging out, with someone whom a few have enjoyed hanging before...
And to see what we can all learn from the experience.
Oh, and if you didn't know, I used to throw some damn good parties back in the day. Do you know the secret to the best parties?
They're where everyone knows someone, but no one knows everyone. That way, everyone can feel at home with familiar company, while seeking new breaths of fresh air.
So let's get it going on.
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