Blogmania

EVERYONE HAS A BLOG!!!! 

Ok, maybe that is a teensy bit of an exaggeration. Two of my friends decided to join the blog boom and get themselves set up with blogs. In reading them I found out that two of my other friends had blogs before but stopped after only a few posts.

So this new movement on my blogosphere brings some mixed feelings. On one hand, good for them, they got themselves blogs and my blog got a few new readers. I use the term “readers” very loosely because I doubt anybody has actually read all of my posts, but I just mean that a few more people are actually aware of my blogs existence.

In that last point lies my other outlook. The shelter of my relative anonymity (One person who I actually know knew about this blog) has been blown away. Maybe I am being a bit paranoid but it seems to me that I will have to judge anything I want to write about on here and see if I want everyone to read it and think about how they may take it. For example, if I wanted to talk about these new blogs, I wouldn’t want to criticize anything because it might hurt their feelings or what have you. Another thing is that my online life and my real life are no longer so separated. Before, blogs never came up in normal conversation; they were relatively personal and such. Now when I am hanging out with my friends all I hear is “Oh, I am so gonna put this on the blog.”

All in all, it seems having more people I know find out about this blog counteracts its purpose. I started this blog as a place to say whatever I want about whatever I want. Now, I need to think about what I post and whether I want everybody to know about it, it’s as if I need to censor what thoughts I put here. (That reminds me; I wanted to write a post about censorship and how much it sucks). Maybe I need to start a new blog with a whole new identity and tell nobody about it. That has a few setbacks, one, I guess the whole point of a blog is for people to read what you write; otherwise it’s just a journal. The second is I am having trouble finding time to keep up with one blog; I wouldn’t be able to write two simultaneously. I guess my only choice is to keep up with this one and just keep in mind who can read what.

On a totally unrelated topic, my Led Zeppelin kick has ended, and today I decided to dust off the country section of my collection and listen to that again, I haven’t listened to country since our local station went off air. So right now I have Brooks and Dunn blasting through my headphones. They are a fairly versatile band, from the very foot stomping country song “Play Something Country” to the slow almost tear-jerking song “Believe”*. I don’t know how long my country run** will last, but I am just going to sit back and enjoy it for the moment.

As for movies, last night I watched “i am sam” with my family. I wasn’t expecting much out of it, most movies I watch with my family end up being ok movies, nothing thought provoking or anything, but this was actually an amazing movie. It stars Sean Penn as a severely mentally challenged father fighting to get custody of his daughter. It takes a certain caliber of actor to play someone with a mental disability. Dustin Hoffman did it in Rain Man, and Sean Penn certainly did it here. The movie was well done all around and I encourage everyone to see it. Of course it helped that Sean Penn’s character had a Beatles obsession***.

I think that’s it for now, my bike is out in the garage with two flat tires and the pump is calling my name.

Until next time,
-MAESTRO

*This song always reminds me of my grandpa, I remember hearing it on the radio right after I found out he had died, so it hold a special meaning for me

** Not that this doesn’t mean I have abandoned all other genres or artists; it just means that I am in the mood for a certain genre at the moment.

*** In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I have a bit of a thing for the Beatles