Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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I have to say that i’m with Re on this one. While BlogSpot is a terrific idea and opportunity for folks who don’t want to go through all of GeoCities BS to get a webpage, but all too often it’s just a stagnant pool of unimportant and uninteresting blogs. It seems to me that any halfway decent BlogSpot blogger would get snapped up by a domain as soon as they found a few visitors, unless they wanted to stay at BlogSpot for some reason. I personally grabbed Brant as soon as i found out he didn’t really want to stay on at the Spot, and would do the same for any other blog i read regularly and enjoyed. While trolling around to all of the domains for hosting is tedious and rather rude (trust me on this one), getting people like Re or I to read you is a simple thing if you’re interesting, and hosting can’t be too far behind. I think the issue is that BlogSpot makes it too easy to start a blog … so that it really doesn’t take any planning or ambition or thought or anything of the like. At least going through GeoCities forces you to monkey with the FTP settings long enough to decide what you really want to do with your time.

My point? Firstly, i’d blame a good bit of the Blogger overinflation on BlogSpot, which means it’s their own fault (maybe they should just start charging for Spot to make their money back…). Secondly, it seems like BlogSpot is a glut of a lot of uninspired people, and the inspired ones get snapped up pretty quick once they establish their own voice. So, … this isn’t an invitation to inundate me with hosting requests, but if you’re on BlogSpot and you don’t like it there, just know that all you need to do is find your groove and a small audience before your time there is over.

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Since i never really flirted with anyone seriously to begin with, it’s hard for me to conceive of the fact that i’m a really huge flirt. In my eyes, i’m just nice while also being incredibly brainless and amusing. Of course, those are the three things that epitomize flirting. So, now i’m stuck with all these acquaintances who my entire relationship with is based on flirting … and of course it’s highly inappropriate to keep flirting with them; nevermind that i’m not actually flirting. Argh. People are so complicated…

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The girlfriend decided on her own that she doesn’t ever want to read this page, and that i should never wander over to read her diary. I told her weeks ago that she might not want to read this, not because i didn’t want her to read it but because i often say things on here without putting much explanation behind them and she might eventually be offended. Anyhow, i think we had trouble understanding the boundaries of each other’s writing – i assumed that her diary would be open to the public since she bothered to put it online but told her i wouldn’t read it if she didn’t want me to while she couldn’t understand how this could be open to the public even though she probably shouldn’t read it. But, anyway, that’s all over now, and now i can say mean things about her again :p

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Um, as you might have predicted from my last post (@ 5am), i wound up sleeping ultra-alot yesterday and never got up to blogging. Yep. Not that anything really happened to me yesterday that was worth commenting upon. Yep, yesterday was boring. Blargh. I think i’m recording a best-of album tonight – dunno why or of what, but it might be recorded. Yep. Okay… see ya later.

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I somehow forgot to mention the two neatest things that happened to me yesterday, and god knows they’re pretty neat. so excuse me while i switch into banal-blog mode to update you on some happenings in my life.


Firstly, i manged to snag myself vocal lessons for next semester. Now, i don’t know how much this shows through my incessant prattling, but i’ve wanted voice training for years. Long before i became musically inclined singing was one of my favourite things to do, but i was horrible at it and was constantly being persecuted by my friends for my lack of ability. Playing guitar gave me the most basic of confidences in singing, but i’m still unsure of myself when singing on my own and i still have no formal training on how to sing. So, the fact that one of our voice instructors wants to make time for me in her schedule is very cool.

A bigger compliment came from Bill Hull, who’s currently in charge of the aforementioned Eight to the Bar. I mentioned off-handedly to him that i was finally starting voice training and he replied that i ought to audition for the next opening in Eight to the Bar. Audition! For an all male a capella group that’s half composed of Vocal Music majors! I tried to deflect what i thought was an obvious attempt at flattery, but Bill was quick to point out that he is one of the few people on campus in possession of a copy of my demo, so he knows full well that i can actually sing when i put my mind to it. He tempered his compliment by admitting that i certainly have plenty of technique to learn from voice lessons, but then reiterated that i would stand a good chance of being a member of the group’s new lineup in the fall.

Eek. I’m not used to feeling this good about myself all at once. No wonder i keep writing songs tonight…

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