Re-Evalutation

So here we are again. Another, uh…year…and another shot at a blog. By my count there are twenty some odd days left in June and my goal is to post on eighteen of those days. Feel free to hold me to it and laugh at me when I can’t pull it off. Writers really are a lazy breed and I am no different from all the rest. We’re constantly looking for ways to make us do what most of us do as naturally as breathing. I’ve had some variation on the following conversation so many times in my life it makes my head spin.

“What are you getting into tonight?”
“I’m having my chest waxed. I’m hoping it’ll make me write more”.

Okay, so that’s the extreme version. I’ve never had my chest waxed. I have very little chest hair so it’s not much of an issue. Personally, I’ve taken creative writing class on top of creative writing class, I’ve gotten up early, I’ve stayed up late. I’ve left the house, I’ve stayed in. I’ve bought a laptop. I’ve tried classical music, blogging, writing letters, lighting candles, white noise, no noise, bad country music…you get the idea. Getting up early and sitting with a cup of coffee seems to work best for me. This experiment has more to do with curbing my instinct to write ridiculously long letters to folks who are likely to tell me to go away some time in the near future then with the need to write consistently. It’s also a good way to warm up before I get to work on other things.

Where this is going, I can’t really say but I’ll be writing about the things I see, be that sports, music, flicks, news, whatever. Keep in mind though that when I review records or movies, it’s liable to be a little behind. Money sometimes keeps me that way!

Album reviews have a section called “Keepers” at the bottom and these are specific songs that I think are worth picking up on iTunes (or downloading illegally from your PTP of choice). For now I’ll give those a rating on a One through Five scale. Movies don’t get stars because hopefully you’ll be able to tell from the review if I liked it or not. Feel free to sound off and let me know you came by!