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Ok, so I have to start out by saying that I have never done anything like this before. "What, write a sentence" I hear you say...(sorry that was bad)...No, what I mean is I've never had, or even been apart of anything that could be considered an online journal before. God, I even tend to stay away from message boards like the plague. I guess the Time-Off message board kinda scarred me for life. Shit, I just admitted that it existed, that could be a problem...see for the last...oh say...6 months, I've just believed that the Time-Off message board didn't exist. Don't get me wrong, Time-Off is a fantastic publication, but at the time I decided to delete the message board from my memory "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" style because it just seemed to be a place rife with angry, insecure people. I thought "oh God, who are these people that have to hide behind pseudonyms and take out their existential angst on people who are trying to play in a band, and trying to make music...something most of these people wouldn't know the first thing about". For God's sake, go to therapy people! Anyway, that turned into a rant, it wasn't supposed to...I really don't care that much about the time-off message board.
So what was I saying? Oh yeah, So I was kinda wary of the whole "online identity" thing. I think the idea of an "online diary" or online journal had kinda freaked me out in the past too. I was like "why would anyone want to keep an online-diary...isn't that an oxymoron?" Apparently not. So true to fashion (I was one of the last people that I know to get a mobile phone - I beat my mum by like less than twelve months...and she is one of those people who always talks about how the towers are going to give us all cancer)...I have taken a while to come around to the whole idea of an online journal. I think I also thought it was just a tool for social retards/uber nerds and/or people with an inflated sense of self importance...then I thought..."Hold on, that's me...". Not really, but yeah...I'm working on the self importance thing.
So what I propose to do with my live journal...which is also the reason I caved and opened an account...is to keep some kind of record of the making of my band's debut album. I figured, "How much time do you spend sitting around in the studio waiting to do something?". So what I'd like to do is spend some of this time...which I usually spend sitting around pulling my hair out...doing something a little more...worthwhile. I haven't really thought that much about the logistics of it all yet...I guess this means someone in the band is going to have to borrow a laptop or something so I/we can type stuff while we are in the studio. Of course this idea could all go horribly pear-shaped. After all, recording...and mixing can be a very strange and stressful time...as anyone in a band will know. And rather than typing up all our melrose place style dramas...I'm probably more likely to not type anything at all. But I think it's worth a try. I figured that I might not get a chance to do this ever again...record an album I mean...I mean you only get one "debut" album anyway, so regardless it is a one-off of sorts. And when I'm older it might be funny to read.
So what was I saying? Oh yeah, So I was kinda wary of the whole "online identity" thing. I think the idea of an "online diary" or online journal had kinda freaked me out in the past too. I was like "why would anyone want to keep an online-diary...isn't that an oxymoron?" Apparently not. So true to fashion (I was one of the last people that I know to get a mobile phone - I beat my mum by like less than twelve months...and she is one of those people who always talks about how the towers are going to give us all cancer)...I have taken a while to come around to the whole idea of an online journal. I think I also thought it was just a tool for social retards/uber nerds and/or people with an inflated sense of self importance...then I thought..."Hold on, that's me...". Not really, but yeah...I'm working on the self importance thing.
So what I propose to do with my live journal...which is also the reason I caved and opened an account...is to keep some kind of record of the making of my band's debut album. I figured, "How much time do you spend sitting around in the studio waiting to do something?". So what I'd like to do is spend some of this time...which I usually spend sitting around pulling my hair out...doing something a little more...worthwhile. I haven't really thought that much about the logistics of it all yet...I guess this means someone in the band is going to have to borrow a laptop or something so I/we can type stuff while we are in the studio. Of course this idea could all go horribly pear-shaped. After all, recording...and mixing can be a very strange and stressful time...as anyone in a band will know. And rather than typing up all our melrose place style dramas...I'm probably more likely to not type anything at all. But I think it's worth a try. I figured that I might not get a chance to do this ever again...record an album I mean...I mean you only get one "debut" album anyway, so regardless it is a one-off of sorts. And when I'm older it might be funny to read.