FINDING A VOICE

We’ll see won’t we. This is the first post I am making in what I hope will be many to come. I had hoped to hit the ground running with brilliance and at the very least something I would look back oon laugh on the level of pathetic that it qualified under. But at the very least something. For many of us whom have come up in the blogging world, via born within an era of DOS where computers were concerned, this platform initially seemed so freekin’ cool and wonderful and pre the term “social-media” when we simply were ONLINE. Most of us starting as friends of Tom and trying to decide if we wanted to reunite with high-school acquaintances. Blogging in its infancy offered communities and groups that we could identify with, or try our best to get our insecurities about our appearance invalidated by the opposite or same sex…Who didn’t want the comment, “You’re Hot!” And so curiosity took the better of some of our office work time and before we knew it, getting to work was simply a means of logging in and posting. I did my time. I quit under a fog of drama and then I discovered BLOGGER!

MOVE OVER LIVEJOURNAL, WE HAVE BLOGGER!

Blogger was the easiest way to get in there as it were and just start writing away about my thoughts on music. Upload a border photo, adjust some colors and VOILA! Your blog was done and now you just had to find other bloggers to follow. I had tried initially to make a go of building a massive site on WordPress, and much like now, found myself technologically inept and frustrated and just went back to building sites on Go-Live (remember Go-Live, the QuarkXPress of website designing?) I tried to encourage, through guestbooks and Forum54.com add ons, for people to join me as a community and journal alongside and submit show reviews and album reviews and be part of the SPASTIQUE PLASTIQUE REVOLUTION! Alas, 2 people assisted me very briefly, and I fell back into Blogger as clearly the only option.

I don’t think I ever truly found my style of writing and just rambled away and linked to more and more bloggers…some even became friends! No, like I have met them and spent time and can actually call them friends…not just numerical followers. But finding your voice is the most difficult of ’em all to do. I have hopes of that, although I think many folks find I write in the manner of how I speak and Im not sure if that means that’s my voice or what, but I want to have flow and I want to engage and I really want this site to flourish as a hub of other music-passionate individuals, and to not get too WOKE, more women editorial focused. I know so many women who love music, and yet I feel it’s a very under represented world online where that’s concerned.

A TYPICAL FIRST POST OF INSECURITY AND LACKING ENGAGEMENT…WHAT ELSE IS NEW?!

So yeah this will evolve. I will figure out how the **** to finesse this template into a site as opposed to a bunch of awkwardly margined and padded text elements. There will be great things, I hope, to come. Mostly I am trying to commit to getting it done and not leaning on my growing OCD issues that have magnified since the early 20-teens. Anywoo…. FEEL FREE TO SEND HELP ON WORDPRESS!!! I am grunting away right now. Ok. That’s all. I like music.