tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post112180333411915429..comments2024-03-29T06:05:06.527+00:00Comments on An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming: No(Stalin)gia and the WHATIFSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1121891800700038402005-07-20T20:36:00.000+00:002005-07-20T20:36:00.000+00:00Gee, I just love that subjectivity essence thing y...Gee, I just love that subjectivity essence thing you got going...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1121876580806419592005-07-20T16:23:00.000+00:002005-07-20T16:23:00.000+00:00Nice post. I always thought that was what music b...Nice post. I always thought that was what music blogs were. Updated fanzines for a slightly older set. The endless gossiping and explosive thrill of a new discovery are what bring me back to my favorite writers. <BR/><BR/>I have given up on most music magazines as overly self important, while the blogs keep me coming back day after day. Geeta's blog the original soundtrack is probably my current fave simply because she expresses herself so simply there. Instant identification with the writer without the tired tropes of magazine writing is definitely where its at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1121867394467751082005-07-20T13:49:00.000+00:002005-07-20T13:49:00.000+00:00>it should be regarded as a form >of social intera...>it should be regarded as a form >of social interaction not of >journalism. It's not a new media >at all, it's a new form of >social discourse<BR/><BR/>i feel what you're saying but the fact is you're not "saying" it, you're writing it -- and as byproduct of whatever it is that blogging is in essence, it can generate fantastic prose. like your post today. so it's like some weird inbetween thing between speech and writing, chitchat and criticism.<BR/><BR/>it is funny how there's so many bloggers who are dads, i think blogging must function--as you say--as a kind of cordoned-off zone of adolescence. a retardo-space you can just drop into and then return to your parental/professional duties. for me it's that, but also a kind of conservation-zone of old-style music-writing of the kind i could get away with in Melody Maker but is almost impossible to squeeze into current media formats<BR/><BR/>blissbloggerSIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1121805734742050532005-07-19T20:42:00.000+00:002005-07-19T20:42:00.000+00:00Poor turn of phrase again there. I meant "Who say...Poor turn of phrase again there. I meant "Who says blogging can't be taken seriously".N.E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05422753615782986293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1121805568231740582005-07-19T20:39:00.000+00:002005-07-19T20:39:00.000+00:00In retrospect I think my comment was inaccurate. ...In retrospect I think my comment was inaccurate. It was more a feeling that it validated blogging as A Worthwhile Thing To Do. Sometimes I wonder why the hell I spend so much time blogging (or thinking about blogging) when my time could be used more productively. The fact that artists I admire have been drawn to it helps reinforce my resolve to continue (and you'd be surprised how often I fantasize about giving it all up - I've composed the big 'good-bye' post on several occasions)!). I get sent links to loads of useless MP3s too, by people who obviously haven't read the blog, cos otherwise they'd know I wouldn't be interested in their drivel. But...just today the postman handed me a surprise package containing two beautiful slabs of vinyl - Collapse Of The Wave Function Vols. 4 & 5, release date 1st Aug. - personally sent to me by their creator Ed DMX. This would have been unthinkable a year ago - who says blogging can't be serious?N.E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05422753615782986293noreply@blogger.com