"On a Web site, a blog, a short form for weblog, is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site and its purpose. Topics sometimes include brief philosophical musings, commentary on Internet and other social issues, and links to other sites the author favors. The essential characteristics of the blog are its journal form, typically a new entry each day, and its informal style. The author of a blog is often referred to as a blogger. People who post new journal entries to their blog may often say they blogged today, they blogged it to their site, or that they still have to blog."
So why, you ask, do I have this blog? It all started back in 2000 when I made an album. I thought I should have a website. Around this time, blogging started becoming popular and since I knew some people in it, I had to jump on the bandwagon. I would post little daily trinkets and keep track of how my songs were ranking on a few indie music websites. In July of 2000 I had my first “official” blog.
Over the next year, the blog became my focal point of the site. I didn’t know what I was doing and I didn’t know why, but I wanted to become a part of this growing blogging community.
The site has gone through many physical transitions since then. The blog was put on the front page, the design and layout changed many times, my level of brutal honesty dwindled as more people were exposed to it. Now it’s something different.
Now, I use my blog for a few reasons. I use it as a documentation for myself. To know when things happened. I use it to help discover myself and help others discover me. I think, though, that my main motivation to continue blogging is in hopes I will write something or share something that inspires someone else. I enjoy helping others to see things in a different light.
I hope while you are browsing through the main page and perhaps through some of the archives, you will react with more than a blank face. I hope something strikes you and if it does, I always like to read people’s comments on the blogs.
======= As for me, well.....
It would be easy for me to sit here and type away a fantastic description of myself... but I won't. What you would like to know about me lies in between the lines. So I'll make this simple.
I am 28 years old, living on my own in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Married, I am not, but I look forward to the day I am. Children, I have none, though I look forward to the day I do. I think I want to move to a place totally unlike this. I just don't know where because I've not traveled much at all.
The music I listen to means something to me. It has to.
Tool, A Perfect Circle, Tally Hall, Fiona Apple, and Sarah Slean make up 80% of my listening habits.
Though I haven't written anything in a while, I do play piano, sing, and write music. I made an album a few years back. You can learn about it here.
I love graphic design and acting. The Carpeted Wall is another site of mine detailing my portfolio and begging for your money. I still have yet to persue drama, but I will.
I strive for such things as passion, personal freedom, and enlightenment. I've found these things in the music I listen to and in such movies as "American Beauty" and "Fight Club".
I have a hole in my sock.