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(edit cleanup 3.19.13: Explaining why I started this blog, which to March 2013 has mostly been filled with personal ramblings about shit I just needed to get out of my system somewhere<\/em>. I’m trying to repurpose things now for more General Interest and Public Good, of course.)
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\n“New” social media sucks. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that I like to write, and I like to write lots. “New” social media discourages this. Further, followers of new social media frown these days on people who like to write lots.<\/p>\n

I also tend to think a lot about things cursorily related to music. Look, this has been very, very frustrating for a long time, because I have seemingly been born into an extremely uncomfortable in-between spot, the likes of me being totally unsuitable for either amateur or professional appreciation.<\/p>\n

The thoughts I have about music tend to be somewhat overtechnical for the layperson, and the way I tend to phrase these thoughts is far too casual and\/or ADHD for the educated musician (I have always been suspicious of the latter accordingly).<\/p>\n

Here I am, alone, posting a bunch of stuff on “new” social media with what might appear to the layperson to be laser focus, and yet about a bunch of stuff that formalist, myopically-specialized fuddy-duddies In The Field could give a toss about.<\/p>\n

It has long seemed to me that I must protect myself from Other People In The Field at all times. I must never let my guard down, lest my misgivings about that world (and intrinsic dissonance with that world) become “widely” known and end in professional demise (not that I haven’t done plenty toward that end as it stands).<\/p>\n

But I cannot control my boundless enthusiasm for these topics, nor my continual heartbreak when dumping words about these topics on a unsuspecting audience that actually does useful stuff for a living results in gut-churning silence.<\/p>\n

Which is better? To try and package my thoughts in a way that will say, “Hey, look at this thing, look at THIS thing, and isn’t THIS amazing, LOOK LOOK LOOK LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN I PROMISE YOU’LL LOVE IT” in just enough characters to avoid the dreaded “More…” cut, only to result in no one actually giving a fuck… or to take my ball and go home to a land where I can write 4000 words on the virtues of underappreciated Korean guitars and\/or the sexiness of the second scale degree in Turkish saz music and expect <\/em>that no one will be there to give a fuck?<\/p>\n

If an overly wordy, misanthropic crank blogs in the forest, does it make a sound?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(edit cleanup 3.19.13: Explaining why I started this blog, which to March 2013 has mostly been filled with personal ramblings about shit I just needed to get out of my system somewhere. I’m trying to repurpose things now for more General Interest and Public Good, of course.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}