Let’s Try This Again…

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OK, I’m back, hopefully for good.  When I started this blog last year, it was intended to be a creative outlet for me, and for a time, it was just that.  I found myself writing poetry again, often, and caring deeply about the wonderful comments I began to receive from friends and strangers.  My pet project, the Song of the Day page, was a special joy, as I have always secretly envied music writers, and it was fun pretending to be one.  Besides, who doesn’t want to read about and discover super-hot new rock and roll?  I was really enjoying myself for a while, and looked forward to posting everyday.  Then, plans began to change, I got busy working toward a new, exciting goal, and the writing just stopped.

Today, I am no less busy.  I find myself studying feverishly for the LSAT (June 16, keep me in mind), working as much as ever to support my little family, and trying to enjoy my children’s childhood while I still can.  But I also find that I miss this outlet, the opportunity to just display a random thought, explore a mood, or share a vital influence.  I miss the idea of reaching out and touching the few of you who had made an attempt to read this nonsense, and I want that back.  So, here goes, with some minor changes…

If ya’ll don’t mind, I’m ready to mix this blog up a bit.  Some days are poetry days, some are music days, some are “What the hell am I doing?” days.  And that’s just life, the whole beautiful, crazy mess.  To attempt to compartmentalize those various depths and heights, to edit them on the fly, is to deny them their truth, their weight.  Part of what makes the blog world so interesting is that we are all free to be ourselves, to speak our minds, to create, to muse, to bitch, to hope.  And so I, with a little grace, am getting back to the keyboard.  Some days this may read like a diary, some days like a novel (hopefully a good one), some days like Rolling Stone.  I just want to keep the stone wet and the blade sharp.  I want to communicate with you, whoever you are.  I want to record my life…  It’s just now getting to the good part…

If there is any one thing that can get me writing again, it is music.  So, before I go tonight, I must introduce you to Justin Vernon, better known in the indie rock world as Bon Iver.  This guy blew my mind when I first heard him a few weeks ago, and I am still reeling.  His album, For Emma, Forever Ago, is available through virb.com, where you can also stream the entire LP.  Vernon’s music displays everything wonderful about indie music today: haunting melodies, deeply personal lyrics, and innovative musicianship.  Look, listen, be enthralled. 

Normally, the videos would go right here, after that amazing intro, but WordPress seems to have changed their media links while I was away, and now I don’t know how to move stuff around.  Anyway, vids are at the top!  “The Wolves (Act 1 and 2)” is first, then “Blindsided.”  Apparently, there are no “official” music videos for these songs, which is a real shame, because every song of this album is a cinematic gem screaming to be filmed. 

P.S. – One of you techies please tell me how to put media where I want it to be in the post!

 

 

 

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