An explanation, of sorts.

There has been a huge break in service on this blog. Not that I have ever been one who is consistently blogging a few times a week (who has the time for that?)(or the ideas of things to write about? Not me!), but, you know, a few times a year is probably not that acceptable in the "blogosphere".

Again, though, not that I need to be acceptable. By any definition of the word.

However, I feel that I should explain myself and my lack of blogging about musical things.

Quite frankly, I lost interest in music for a while there. I get really stuck with the things that I like and I am always quite excited about the things that I like. But, new music? I don't dig it so much. I have become, in my old age of 27, quite close-minded in what I listen to. You can see the problem, I'm sure, with having a closed mind and, yet, trying to maintain a music blog.

Even a crappy, not ever read music blog.

I'm trying to change. I am. But, mostly, I don't care that much about things that people rave about. I don't get it most of the time. I like what I like.

Spoon!
Pavement!

And others.

The other night, in an effort to change, I went to my favorite record store and bought eight (count 'em: eight!) CDs. Prior to that, I had purchased six over the course of the entire year. The six I bought?

Some Loud Thunder - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks (I'm not lying about this.)
FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake (Again, I'm NOT LYING about this.)
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
King for a Day - Bobby Conn

Aside from Spoon, I have listened to the others a total of one time each. Spoon has been on repeat for months (even prior to the release).

Acquisitions on Tuesday were:
Challengers - New Pornographers
Grinderman - Grinderman (Nick Cave, really)
New Moon - Elliott Smith
Living With the Living - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Songs From a Room - Leonard Cohen
The Blackened Air - Nina Nastasia
Dogs - Nina Nastasia

Maybe someday I'll write how I feel about them. Though, regardless of how I feel about some of them, it is good that I'm opening up again to new sounds, new things.


This really isn't an explanation at all, is it? It's more pointless blathering from the Bad Arts. Ahhhh, so it goes. So. It. Goes.