Currentblink.com?

Note: If you’re reading this from my Facebook feed, you may want to stop reading here. I’m going to be writing about what direction the site is going in, what will stay the same, what will be touched on more, and what I’m going to be talking less about. Fair warning.

I’ve been writing music oriented articles on Postblink since the site was created. I don’t know if they’re good or bad but they’re my thoughts on what ever happens to be on my play list at the time of the writing. This will continue. Not only will this continue but I’m going to attempt to get more structured pieces together as far reviewing full length releases. This includes an actual rating system. I didn’t do this from the start because I’ve never looked at the site as anything more than an outlet for my thoughts. That’s changing. Judging from the site’s logs, I’m getting hits on albums I’m talking about, new songs, and shows I’ve attended. So I’m going to try being more consistent by applying the rating system. I’m still going to ramble on with my pointless thoughts — they’ll just be accompanied by stars or hearts or bunnies. Who knows?

I’ve also been writing a lot of personal articles. My life, my thoughts, my aspirations of music. This will also continue but with an exception. I’m not going to talk about politics anymore. It’s really fucking annoying — no, not what I have to say. I’m always brilliant, so screw you. It’s just annoying to keep defending a tired cause. Okay, and maybe I was a little annoying. I guess I feel a little jaded on the whole political spectrum. Left-to-right, it’s all a bunch of bullshit. I have my thoughts, my ideals. I have my beliefs and they are strong. I’m just not into talking about them on a largely public medium anymore. If you want to chat one-on-one with me about it, you know where to find me.

For a while I had intentions of having multiple authors on the site. It didn’t work out so well. The group I picked out either didn’t maintain an interest in writing or moved on to create their own blogs. That’s fine, and I’d even encourage it. What it means, and I’ve been thinking about this for a while, is that the site once again becomes more identified with me. That’s why I’ve gone back to writing longer, more personal articles over the last six months. Guest articles will always be welcome however.

I guess I don’t really have anything else to add. It’s cold in Iowa. Single digits cold. That’s not much of a conclusion but I’ll leave you with it anyways.

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About Lucas

I'm a 22 year old writer-wanna-be from Iowa. After starting my first hobby site in 2004 and dabbling in web design and development, I registered Postblink.com in late 2006 to share my love (and hatred) for different aspects of all kinds of music. The site still serves that purpose, in addition to my thoughts on life and different events happening in my life.
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2 Responses to Currentblink.com?

  1. Craig Weber says:

    Hey Luke, I’m excited to see what the “new site” will feel like. I’ve been spending the majority of my “free time” trying to figure out wordpress theming as web-design is increasingly a favorite hobby of mine. We’ll see how this goes–maybe if/when I get proficient at theming I’ll help you out when you need it? Anyways, Iowa is cold; however, at least the windchill is only negative single digits lately. As opposed to the negative 2345236563456456 celsius degrees that we are used to.

    Peace,
    Craig #1

  2. Lucas says:

    That’d be awesome. My issue isn’t so much the coding – I can generally find where in the PHP files I need to make edits to make certain things show up where I want them. My problem is that I have all the tools but not much in the way of a “designer’s sense” to make a cool looking site.

    Hope things are well friend. At least we’re out of those single digits! haha

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