Good news first, not just for the Journals section but for all of the forum:
Pet_Sounds has decided to rejoin us, after almost as long a hiatus from here as I took. Welcome back, man, and hope to see The Scrap Heap back in business soon.
Bit thin on the ground this week though: other than my unruly gang of assorted journals, there are only five of you updating. Surely this situation can be addressed? Guys? Guys? Well, have it your own way. Of those who are bothering, you may read below. If you have a journal and have not updated, I hope their efforts make you feel suitably ashamed and eager to redress the situation post haste. In other words, get the ****ing lead out.
1blankmind kicks us off (almost literally!) with another Brant Bjork album and a lot of stuff about wrestlers, one of which is a rapper, I believe. Mercy! Catch it all where
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-pleases.html.
Seems
innerspaceboy is now not only our resident vinyl guru, but is fast becoming our headphones guru. Send your requirements to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html and we'll discuss my commission later, man...
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...reciation.html is where you'll find
Machine's list of albums he's listened to so far this year, including Kalahari Surfers and Vektor.
There's gonna be a solicitor's letter headin' your way,
Plankton! The Anti-Metal
Playlist of Life, indeed! Where's my copyright lawyer? What do you mean, he's been dead for four years? Ah. I was wondering where the smell was coming from. Well, don't just stand there! Get me a
new lawyer! A
living one! And then send a strongly-worded letter here
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ower-punk.html has Saves the Day, Bad Astronaut and Direct Hit.
One of my old journals resurface this week, and there's another one on the way back next week. But first, we're continuing our voyage through the music of Robert Wyatt in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html while RPI is going strong over at
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...k-journal.html with Unreal City, then it's welcome back (maybe) to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html as we catch up with
Babylon 5 and the boys from
Supernatural. Zappa and Floyd are the subjects under consideration in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html. Finally, we're seeing how the Black Death and the War of the Roses affected Ireland in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-ireland.html.
Time for another dreary tramp through
and this time I want to look at a journal which, on the face of it, looked as if it had some real thought put into it. Well, let's be fair: it did have some thought put into it. Its author obviously intended doing this thing properly, as you can tell from the opening lines:
“I have been thinking about doing this for a while now, and I think it's time I got this journal started.” It did indeed start well for
FrigginParadox, but sadly did not last very long. I don't know what went wrong – whether FP just decided it was too much work, had too much real-world stuff to deal with, left the site, just lost interest – there could be a hundred reasons why someone starts a journal, with the greatest of intentions, and then lets it slide till they either forget about it or lose faith in it, but this one did not last long, which is a pity. But sometimes – quite often, sadly – that's the way it goes. Which is why I always say, if you think starting a journal is a good idea, ask yourself this question: are you prepared to commit the time and energy to it that a journal needs? Nobody is saying you need to update very week, or even every month, but regular updates not only keep your journal visible and therefore read by more people, they also (in my case, and I know in the case of others too) give you the impetus to keep going, especially when your work is being read. Maybe the fact that FP only got one response to his journal sheds some light on the reasons why he junked it, but he only gave it just over a week before jacking it in. Hardly enough time to gauge what its success would be. Oh well, I guess we'll never know.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...dox-music.html
Statistics
Journal title: The Nostalgic Timeline of Paradox and Music
Author: FrigginParadox
Born: July 23 2013
Total views: 651
Total posts: 5
Posts (by author):4
Actual posts by author (ie not just replies to comments): 3
Died: August 2 2013
Graveyard Ranking: One single red rose is laid on the gravestone once a year in July, in respect to the journal's birth. The shadowy figure is not really what you'd describe as Loathsome, but he remembers being the only one to comment before the journal died, and he keeps its memory alive.
I'm sure it will do his ego no end of good to refer to his journal as one I, and others, miss, and his likely response would be “I am great and I update when I please so suck it peasants” or something similar, but come on! How long has it been since we heard from the classic
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...t-schemes.html I ask you? Well I'll tell you: over
three years, that's how long! The last entry of any consequence Batty made was in August of 2013!
Now come on: surely we all remember that heartbreaking scene when our heroes, high atop a mountain pass, watched in helpless horror as Joey Belladonna accidentally lost Batty's cigarettes over the side? Or when the guys debated the merits of Black Sabbath albums? And what about Gunrdid, or whatever her name was, Batty? Did you ever make an honest woman of her? Would we expect you to? Last time we heard of
The Return of the Kings of Metal they were trapped, if I remember, by Tipper Gore and her bloodthirsty cult who worshipped the severed head of Varg Vikernes! Man, you can't leave us hanging like this. What if Tolkien had said, after finishing
The Hobbit, “I should really flesh out this story but you know, **** it, I have Xbox to play.”? We need closure, man, we need closure! Can we tempt you?
(To be continued. Maybe.)
And don't think
you're escaping my gentle wrath either,
YorkeDaddy! I'll have a lot to say to you next week, so be warned.
That's it for this week gang. More next week.
Till then,Toodles!