10 days ago I officially turned twenty-one years old. I figured for this milestone I would finally do something I've wanted to do for years, the proper rite of passage all people go through - I would start a 2000s style blog.
Unfortunately, LiveJournal is long dead (unless I intend to learn Russian, anyway), so Blogger will have to do.
So why do I want to do this? Three reasons.
1. This can essentially be a diary. I think preserving my day-to-day thoughts and experiences will be useful to me in the future. My memory isn't the greatest and I don't expect it to suddenly improve, something like this can be immensely helpful in that regard.
2. I need to write more anyway, why not use a medium I have always wanted to use in order to do so?
3. I like talking :)
I have no idea how often I'll return to this, or what the subject of most of my posts will be. I want to let that all happen naturally. Writing is best if left to occur on its own, I think. But I'm sure you can expect copious amounts of talk about 90s and 2000s power pop, vintage internet, and esoteric politics. Those do seem to be things that follow me no matter where I go.
Finally, before I close things off, thanks to my buddy Deckra for letting me steal his blog skin. True friends encourage creative theft. He runs a killer blog looking into very obscure bands which I heavily encourage folks to check out. Also just a killer person.
Song of the Day: Chemical Bomb - The Aquabats