land war by katharine eastman
very luddite and very very minimal thing for a variety of backgrounds
oh lordy me yes - I was so excited babbling away yesterday about butterflies that I didn't notice that yesterday's album was my 400th. I might buy myself a cake and a candle later today. Though I probably really need to go down to Specsavers and see if they can do anything about my hearing.
400 or any-hundred is meaningless but sometimes you do shit because other people expect it of you and I am weak and passive and always go along with the crowd - so I'll do a tiny retrospective about my career here on BC - ie have a peep at the stats. They reveal that I am even less popular now than I was right at the start when I was a complete total utter 100% unknown.
Yonks ago, when I was doing blogs that highlighted my favourite BC albums I'd sometimes get nice messages from musos and I learnt that anyone who just plonks a bit of music out of nowhere onto BC for the very first time will get about 7 visits on the first day - there are literally only about 7 people on the whole planet who are searching around at random among all the new musics for stuff they like.
All this shit about how the internet was going to make everyone more adventurous and broaden their horizons as they scooted around among all the wonderful genres so easily - in music, in reading, in politics, in socialising, in fashion, in everything .... well we can see the end result of it all - everyone drives a grey car, wears black clothes, thinks the same thoughts, pretends to like the same music/whatever.
Once you've been on BC for a little while then those 7 adventurous people move on to new people. Totally understandable. But there is no one coming along behind. So for me, the heady days of 7 visits are long gone. Now it's 0 or 1 or maybe 2 and half the time those positive numbers are just because I accidentally visited this site without logging-in first. I feel obliged to put a positive spin on all this. And I really really really don't think I'm kidding myself when I go round saying that I like being unpopular - it certainly suits me, it certainly comes easily. And come on, you've met people, you know how stupid and boring we all are - would you really think it some kind of grand achievement to know that lots of them think yr brilliant, when everything else they think is total bollocks.
