As I sit here on this rainy September Sunday, I find myself in a contemplative mood. I come back to this blog after perhaps a week or so of inactivity and wonder: What is the point? As it stands right now, more the 2500 hundred people have viewed my blog since it’s inception sometime in February of this year. That is not bad, but let us be honest with ourselves that it represents but a scant sliver of the sum total of what we call humanity. Wikipedia tells me that as of December of last year there were at least 112 million blogs in existence which would make me like a grain of sand in the Gobi Desert. Well, maybe not that insignificant.
But again, what is the point? Imagine standing among 112 million people, all talking at once, and trying to be heard? It would seem pointless. As I look at my tiny piece of the Internet pie I can find some solace however. I have still reached 2500 people I never would have otherwise. Who knows who those people are? It’s crazy to think that someone from a far off place has read my words. At this moment, those images that you always see in commercials that tout the way this or that company is using the Internet to connect the world come to mind. I see a youth in a Brazilian favela reading one of my entries or an African tribesman. I know that this is highly improbable. My readers, whoever they are, probably hail from less exotic locales. Still, even if someone from St Louis or Rennes reads my blog I am happy. I get the impression (hopefully correct) that in some way I have connected with them. That something has been shared.
Thus we come to why I choose to write, despite the overwhelming evidence of it’s complete and utter futility. If you have perused this blog even superficially you can tell my entries about music are not bound by genre or subject or really anything. I guess the spirit of this blog can be summed up as: here is a good song that I like and think you might like (with a definite “party music” slant). One could ask why I would think that I am any more qulified than anyone else to do this and truly I am not. The difference between me and anyone else is that I am doing it.
I do have other motives as well. I believe in a unifying theory of all music. I believe all genres are in some way interconnected. I believe if you truly like music then you should like it all. As a dj I try to illustrate that as much as is technically possible with two turntables and a mixer. Which comes to another of my motives as well: self promotion. But then, aren’t all blogs fundamentally a type of self promotion? The blogger giving regular newsflashes about their lives or ideas in some way?
Anyway, back to the music.
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