Mixed Media Junkie

I was going to go with dear readers (plural), but that seemed a little premature, to assume that multiple sets of eyeballs would be led astray and accidentally read this blog.*  Anyway, as this is my first post here, I feel somewhat compelled to offer up a kind of mission statement to orient you as to what this blog purports to be.  (Not Mission Statement, uppercase, italicized, which seems even more full [fuller?] of itself than a mission statement for a blog would seem to indicate, and consequently leading to the probably-not-too-far-off-the-mark impression that I’m full of myself as well.) 

Anyway, ”to write more” was a vague, ill-defined New Year’s resolution of mine, and as I find myself spending the majority of my day on the computer, it seemed only appropriate and convenient to throw these ramblings somewhere up on the web.  I decided to start this blog specifically to capture my off-the-cuff (and sometimes more focused) thoughts on the various media I consume: what I watch, listen to, and read.  Hence, Mixed Media Junkie.  I’ll try to leave personal musings for other avenues (i.e. myspace, livejournal, tear-stained diaries) but there may be cross-postings and linkages here and there.

 *Permit me a brief aside here.  As you can probably already tell, my writing’s a little unfocused, with the occasional (okay, frequent) parenthetical aside and footnote.  Maybe my writing will evolve, but things like brevity, cohesion, getting your point across… you know, the characteristics of good writing, those things will probably only be making cameos here.  Anyway, to illustrate my point, it’s taken two sentences to get to the point of this footnote, which is that I used to hate the word ‘blog’ when it first started cropping up.  Hazel (you might as well get used to her name, she’ll be alluded to often) pointed this out the other day, and I think it’s because it’s not a very fun word.  Blog.  It’s short, squat, unpretty.  It has no allure, and definitely does not roll off the tongue, possibly due to the fact that it’s a weird cropping of a conjoined word – weblog.   By its sheer ubiquity though, it’s gained acceptance in the mainstream lexicon.  It’s like a shrill crying baby that no longer registers in your immediate consciousness because it’s been shrieking for so long.  Similarly, I will no longer fight the existence of the word ‘blog.’  There’s just no way to shut that fucking baby up.  So here it is: my music/television/movie/book/internet blog, with a good smattering of tangents and digressions into who knows what.  Welcome.  Enjoy.  Discuss.