HECK.

So, no updates for a month, not even any apologies for not posting. That’s terrible, isn’t it? And I haven’t even been that busy… just moderately busy. Nothing all that dramatic or interesting has happened to stop me rattling on about rock bands anyway.

I recall that back when I started this weblog – best part of five years ago, wow – I was penniless, and living in a remote locale, with no social life, and not receiving a great deal of cultural stimulus – so the idea was that rather than being a hype-chasing New Stuff blog, I’d just post free-form, text only observations on whichever scratched CDs I’d got out of the library that week, or whatever rightfully forgotten bit of weirdness I dug up from the depths of More Music for 99p to try to keep me entertained in between going for long walks and pretending to look for a job. Ah, good times.

Nowadays though of course, I’ve got cultural stimulus coming outta my fucking ears – brilliant albums old and new piling up, waiting to be appreciated (this week the number of albums on my iTunes caught up with the year of my birth - I can’t help it officer, they just download themselves), an endless backlog of Great Books (with capital letters), the qualities of which help enhance my experience of life no end, and I’d love to tell you all about it too, but I mean, what are the chances of the likes of me ever finding the time and inspiration to compose any original thoughts on the work of Joseph Conrad or James Baldwin or whoever? Then I’ve got my own music-making and social type duties - some at least, as opposed to the more conventional none - and, being in London, it’s only exhaustion and grumpiness that stops me from stepping out to go and watch bands three, four, six nights a week. And then there’s the internet. I don’t even seem to find time to watch movies or read comic books these days, let alone write about them.

And that’s good – I’m certainly not complaining – but it can be tough on my work rate for this weblog, especially since I want to make sure every post represents a worthwhile, nay coherent, piece of writing of some kind, rather than lapsing into more functional one paragraph “hey I saw this band last night, they were great, check em out”, “hey I heard this great song – it’s soo good – check it out” type posts, of which I could probably do one a day.

So:

We ain’t dead. For the time being, this is never going to be a regular posting-every-day weblog, and I’ll refrain from trying to outlay grand schemes and trail forthcoming atrtractions, but everything half-decent I find myself writing will be up here straightaway.

2008 has thus far been a record-breaking year for great records that have found their way into my orbit, and I’m damned if I’m not going to get around to telling you about some of them. In fact I’ve got some stuff written and various other posts ready to go over the next few weeks, but don’t sweat it if there’s an occasional gap in posting is all I’m saying, I guess – thanks for making the effort to stick around.

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