Long-time readers will remember that I did a long series on this blog, called Friday Music, starting back in 2005. Every week or so, I’d post a “mixtape of the internet”, sharing stuff that had grabbed my attention, both new and old.
Like so many other things in my life, it kind of drifted off — I’ve tried, a few times, to resurrect it, but not with any real sticking power. Well, I’m giving it another shot — and this time, in that convenient streaming format that the kids all go crazy over!
Yep, I’ve now got a profile up on Mixcloud, and, every couple of weeks or so, I’m going to post a mix — 40 minutes or so of music, which you can listen to via your phone (Mixcloud has an app on Android and IOS), or your desktop. I’ll put a player widget here, and you should also feel free to share it via Twitter, Facebook, etc.
This week’s playlist:
1. Big Audio Dynamite, “C’Mon Every Beatbox”
2. Stewart Copeland, “Coco”
3. The Pursuit of Happiness, “I’m An Adult Now”
4. A Flock of Seagulls, “(It’s Not Me) Talking (Remix)”
5. The Ocean Blue, “Between Something And Nothing”
6. Nick Heyward, “Whistle Down The Wind”
7. Human League, “The Lebanon”
8. The Police, “I Burn For You”
The title of this post has multiple meanings. First, I want to start using this site to blog again. I’ve been failing at that — primarily, because of massively late projects meaning that I have no time for it, and secondarily, that lack of time making it far easier to share items of interest to me on other platforms (Twitter and Facebook, mostly). But I really need to make myself do this, to produce content on a platform that I control, rather than creating for some company’s platform (and besides, I can always keep using Twitter & Facebook, and just post links to here). Additionally, it serves a couple of other purposes: one, it diverts my attention from the frankly-horrifying news of the fascist dismantling of my country; and two, making myself put stuff up here is good for my discipline, putting me in the right mindset to then get more work done.