Saturday, October 2, 2010

An Obvious Choice

Reeling from my last experience with blogging, my computer metaphorically eating the assignment, I knew I was going to save my work every second I could.  I sat down and started thinking about what next experimental music I should choose and I found that I had a few choices.  I was either going to write about The Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground or Dream Theater.  I then narrowed down the choices as I did not think Dream Theater classified enough as experimental rock.  Also, my Pink Floyd collection lacked, only having popular albums like The Wall, Animals, and The Dark Side of the Mood in my music library.  Although great albums, my purpose in the blog is to show readers music they have not heard.  When I do Pink Floyd, and I will write about them, I want to do a less popular album from their psychedelic-music days in the early 1960s.
My choices, now narrowed down to The Mars Volta and The Velvet Underground, did not appeal to me very much.  I listened to the albums De-Loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta and Loaded by The Velvet Underground and I still was not getting inspired to write a post which looked in depth at the music on the album.
In this frustration, I left my computer and walked into my living room where one of my roommates was watching Led Zeppelins The Song Remains the Same.  I sat down on the couch and began to stare as my favorite band ripped through song after song, exciting me so much that I ran and tripped in my room to get my computer.  As I got up I grabbed the computer and brought it in front of the TV screen and began to write about the film.  The only problem that came from this was I did not want to stop watching the movie.  My eyes were glued on the screen and I typed without paying any sort of attention to what I was producing on the computer.  When I had a minute to look it over, I realized how good the post was and I immediately published it.
I am now starting to get the hang of my blogging about music.  I am really starting to find it enjoyable and I find that I am learning lots of new things about some of my favorite music that I did not know before.  This is because I am trying to write posts which really describe the music in depth so that if anyone decides to read my blog, they will realize it is not just a school project but a passion of mine.

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