Changes

Hey, random readers! Hello, my one follower! How are you? I appreciate the support.

I have some thoughts regarding this blog.

1. Sometime in the middle of writing my review for Operation: mindcrime, it sort of struck me how silly it is to write such lengthy reviews of such old albums. If people want to know how good an album is, they can look up one of the billions of reviews that already exist on the internet, and those will likely have been written by someone with a bit more authority on the matter.

2. Related to #1: I'm mostly doing this blog for myself, because it gives me something to do and it lets me document my collection on my computer (and on the internet, on the off-chance that someone else is interested in my musical life). I already know whether or not I enjoy an album; writing long reviews is sort of pointless.

3. So I'm going to change my "LP Review" posts. Instead of a big review and a little bit of information, I'm going to start reversing that; I'm only going to write a short-to-medium-length blurb about the art/music, and provide a lot more details (track titles and times, band personnel, etc.). With albums that I love as much as Lizard, you might see an epic review since I just can't control myself, but I was literally forcing myself to write that Operation: mindcrime review, which meant I wasn't enjoying it, which meant I was doing something wrong.

4. I've been writing to please readers who don't exist. I'm going to stop doing that.

5. But I can't pretend that I don't want people to read this. If anyone has any ideas about how to make this thing a little more entertaining, feel free to comment.