I’ve Got To Give Myself One More Chance To Be The Man That I Know I Am

I just don’t know what to do with this blog these days. The standard of writing here has been on a steady downhill slide for at least the past two months, and I’m starting to feel that this blog is in danger of turning into an MP3-of-the-week site and little else. I’ve got no one to blame but myself – I’ve just been too lazy to write anything worthwhile for this blog. I’m finding it harder and harder to write outside of the context of a discussion; I have no problem writing thousands of words a day over on Barbelith, but when I sit down and try to type something to the blogger template, I’m at a loss.

I’m starting to get the impression that my writing is a lot more entertaining when I’m angry about something, but the last thing I want this to be is just another blog full of stupid rants. My primary objective since the beginning has always been for this blog to be about advocacy, to enthusiastically endorse things that I enjoy. I don’t want that to change, but I would like to find a way to make this a little less repetitive – it’s getting awfully boring finding new ways to say that I really enjoy something.

Also, I seem to be unintentionally making the range of topics written about here more and more narrow, and I don’t know why I’ve been doing that. Reading back on this blog, I realize that I’ve not mentioned at least 80% of all of the media that I’ve been immersed in for months now. I’ve barely touched on the films I’ve seen lately, though I did at least acknowledge that I saw Chicago and Adaptation, even if I more or less glossed over the both of them. I almost never mention any of the comics that I read, I never talk about television, and I only sometimes write about my obsession with The Best Show On WFMU or This American Life. I obsess over comedy quite a bit lately, but you’d never really know that by reading this blog. I think part of this is because I have outlets for discussing these things in my regular life, but I feel like I really ought to be working them into this blog.

So, by posting this, I suppose I am trying to make it clear to the people who read this blog that a) I know this place has been sucking a lot lately, and b) I’m going to try to do better, even though I’m going to have a lot less free time pretty soon.

Actually, you know what? I think the abundance of free time might be the problem itself.

I Want You To Know There Ain’t Nothing Too Good For You

I’ve very sorry about my laziness with this blog lately – I didn’t even get around to writing about the songs from the last set, which I think I’ll just take a pass on now. I’ve been meaning to write about Max Tundra in particular, but it occured to me yesterday that maybe it is a better idea that I don’t, since I can pretty much sum up my feelings about the Mastered By Guy At The Exchange album in one, terrible and inarticulate sentence: It’s really wacky, original, weirdo pop stuff and it RULES! I’m keeping the two Max Tundra songs, “Labial” and “Lysine”, up for a little while longer, just to make sure as many people get to try them out as possible.

Anyway, the new MP3s are all soul favorites of mine. You can hear Spanky Wilson and Otis Redding blow Cream and The Rolling Stones out of the water, and have yourself a little dance party with the lot of them. Enjoy.

Spanky Wilson “Sunshine Of Your Love”

Otis Redding “Satisfaction”

Lee Rogers “I Want You To Have Everything”

Syl Johnson “Dresses Too Short”

Big Ella “Too Hot To Hold”

Bobby Byrd “I Know You Got Soul”