Taking a Timeout to Blog About Music

The list of things I feel guilty about not doing continues to grow. My first public writing, per se, was done through my music blog, which I began in 2006. It wasn't a serious writing venture, but a means to publicize our band. I know it's hard to remember how the internet was twenty years ago, but at that time, people still read blogs. Blogger was probably king until WordPress came along, with its overwhelming array of doodads. I probably still have the start of a blog there, which I quickly abandoned due to the site's complexity. I just wanted to write, dammit. WordPress is, I guess, a place for the cool kids. I'm not a cool kid.

Once our album was released, to astounding public clamor (no one bought it), I grew tired of trying to create buzz, but I still wanted to keep writing. So I turned to posting about albums and artists and the state of music in general. Plus, I just had fun. The blog was my Friday night entertainment. My favorite posts are still my reviews of fake albums. (Apparently even then, my future was in writing fiction.) I also threw in some personal stories, either related or unrelated to music.

But once I embarked on my new fiction writing path, my poor blog only got a visit from me a couple times a year. My last post was two months ago, and before that all the way back in May. Did I feel guilty? Of course. But not guilty enough to actually do anything about it. At some point during my blog's heyday (so to speak) I felt it was important to memorialize artists who had passed away, many of them long forgotten by music fans, or never known about to begin with. And now, while we're still in 2025, I've fallen down on the job. I tried to write something about a very iconic artist, but I was intimidated. Probably hundreds of memorials were written for him, and who was I? So, I still haven't written it. And it wasn't just him. 

Now before the year slips away, it's time to catch up. Because it's all about the music, I include video performances, preferably not modern day versions, but ones from the time when those songs were hitting the charts. That's often a struggle. One would think anything can be found on YouTube. Balderdash, I say! But I still give it a go.

So, please excuse the interruption while I buckle down and return to my roots. 

By the way, my blog is linked in the sidebar here, so you can take me to task if I don't follow through.