Spreading Myself Even Thinner

A couple of quick announcements…

1.

Foolish as it may seem given the trouble I’ve often had updating this weblog on a regular basis, I’ve branched out and started a second weblog - Breakfast In The Ruins - to sit alongside this one.

The idea is that Stereo Sanctity will be a purely music-based blog (which it pretty much is anyway, let’s face it), and I’ll use the new blog as an outlet for stuff relating to movies, books, comic books, general weirdness, history, wider culture and so forth. Which is not to say I won’t be posting music-related content over there from time to time (scans of unusual record covers, movie soundtracks, that sort of thing), or that I won’t reserve the right to post non-music stuff over here should I feel like it.

My plan is to make Breakfast.. more focused on pictorial/aesthetic posts – scans of interesting old book and record covers, comics, fanzines, posters etc. from my, er, ‘collection’, with only sporadic pieces of original writing, which should make it easier to update regularly without diminishing the effort I put into this site.

‘Breakfast In The Ruins’ has of course been my email address and sometime internet alias for quite a while now, but I thought it would suit the intentions of my new venture a lot better than any of the other contenders that were floating around my brain, so decided well go with it. The name is taken of course from a Michael Moorcock book, in which Karl Glogaeur (protagonist of Moorcock’s earlier crucifixion time travel caper, ‘Behold The Man’) is picked up by a muscular African man in Derry & Tom’s Roof Garden in London, and they proceed to spend the rest of the novel having rough sex, interspersed with disturbing visions of assorted alternate world apocalyptic scenarios. Truth be told, I didn’t enjoy the book all that much, but it was certainly a characteristically daring bit of experimental fiction from Moorcock, and I did enjoy imagining the reaction of all the straight-laced Elric fans who must have picked it up by accident, and hopefully a similar sort of vibe will be in evidence on the new weblog (well, minus all the rough man-sex at least).

And that, my friends, is perhaps the last time you’ll be subjected to a pointless digression about old Michael Moorcock books getting in the way of my indie-rock type musings here on Stereo Sanctity, as my plan for establishing my own cultural schizophrenia is put into full effect! I’ve already put a few posts up on the new blog before announcing it to the world, in order to avoid that ‘first guest at the party’ type feeling, so if you’re remotely interested, then by all means, visit regularly, tell your friends, put up links, etc!

2.

Also, I got given a hand-me-down digital camera over Christmas, and have started taking pictures of stuff for the first time since my old analogue camera died a few years back. And so, years behind everyone else as per usual, I’ve reactivated my Flickr account and started regularly uploading stuff to it.

Of course, there’s no reason why this should be of much interest to people who don’t know me in real life (and frankly it’s of precious little interest to those who do), but the same thing could be said of about 85% of the internet, so hell, I’m not going to let that stop me now. It’s there anyway, so look at it if you like. I’ll be trying to keep a visual record of all the bands I see play, amongst other things.

Normnal service to be resumed here within a day or two hopefully, so stay tuned.

Labels: announcements, self promotion