May 1st
Ahh, May. It’s a wonderful month for those of us still going to school. Typical high and elementary schoolers may have to wait until to the end of May to acquire the summer freedom, but most university-goers that I’m aware of are getting out no later than the middle of May. Myself…I’m already out of class, but I’ve got two finals to attend next week. And then it’s all over, and I’ll be sitting around at home for a few weeks before heading out to California. Can’t wait.
I can feel the stress melting off my body already. I’m not even worried about these finals. Considering the ease of the corresponding midterm exams for the two classes, they should be a breeze.
To come: more reviews, of course. Though I’ve already done two of their albums, I plan to put up a Doors one soon, maybe their debut album. Also, expect (but don’t count on) The Who, Iron & Wine, Hot Tuna, Robert Plant, The Stone Roses, Neil Young, Heart, ELO, Def Leppard (hey, I need something to bash), and David Bowie. Of course, it’s likely that I’ll do something I didn’t list here at all instead.
Concerns.
With more and more album reviews being posted, it seems like I have an increasingly harder time not repeating myself. Certain phrases and such keep coming up and everything starts to seem really dull and repetitive. I need to come up with ways to rectify this. Doing more reviews on bad albums, like the review on Metal Machine Music, might help.
Another note: maybe I should really start bolding track names within the reviews, to make it easier for people to skim for certain tracks. After all, some of the reviews tend to be simply too long.
No time.
With the end of the semester upon me, it’s like I never have time for anything anymore, and I get tired faster than ever, and all of this is having an effect on my blogging: simply, I find it harder and harder to write reviews now. Luckily, tomorrow’s Friday, and I have a break…so expect reviews to come out relatively quickly tomorrow and over the rest of the weekend. I have lots of nearly finished drafts of reviews that will be published when I’m not exhausted.
For now, I depart. Bed time for this kid.
A much needed break is over.
So yeah, you may have noticed that I’ve done basically nothing on this blog for several days. Well, I took a bit of a personal break for personal reasons. For quite a while now I’ll be cranking out reviews quickly.
The break went well though, because I got a lot of new writing done. Lots of poetry that I consider worth revising, and I’ve gotten a fair amount done on the new novel idea I’ve been working on.
A little update…
On the right over there, you may notice two new links under “pages.” I’ve sorted the 22 album reviews I’ve done so far by rating and by artist. Both lists are looking pretty bleak right now, especially the artist one considering I haven’t done more than one by any artist yet. But the lists will fill up eventually. Hopefully those pages will serve as useful.
