I am very shy.
I am too self-conscious and embarrassed to read a blog, much less author one.
However, I now find myself in the predicament of having written and recorded a few tunes that feel like maybe they don't suck so much, with the even more disconcerting inclination to share them with you. And the presumptuousness with which I am executing on this bizarre obsession makes me feel like I should explain myself -- to justify myself to myself.
So, in assessing this blog (which has barely begun and yet has already revealed itself to be regrettably self-aware), I yield unto you, dear reader, the inalienable human rights of snap judgement, loathing, and vengeful deprecation. I emphatically sanction any sudden preference to ditch this sucktastic shit and go browse for cat videos. I'll join you. Because I have no business writing a blog, any more than I have any business writing music.
Music doesn't give you a choice, of course. It emerges from nothing and nowhere, seizes your brain and booty with an infectious groove, and imbues you with a strange, mystic power to traverse the tenderest introspections, while dancing your ass off with wild joy. So when a little new melody reveals itself you, you of all the humans on the Earth, rippling through your consciousness, conveyed on some afternoon's daydream -- you listen. You sample it through all of your senses.
Then, if you're smart, you write it down. And if you're very lucky, you capture the pixie heart of it.
This blog cannot promise to be worthy of your time, or taste. It will fail to avoid sentimentality, indulge in hyperbole and superlatives, occasionally buzz market my friends whose art I find fascinating. And yet ultimately it will aspire to nothing more than a simple reading of one human's attempt to create some entertaining things. And if all of this stirs vivid, familiar colors in your brain, brings you a little heart, or encourages you to get a little further up your own path, maybe we can both be satisfied.
For you must know that I love you, dear reader, and I want the best of all things for you, whomever you are that made the choice to be here to sample this scrapple.