Update about Updates

So, yeah, the electronic halls of this little experiment I just bought the domain rights for have been relatively vacant these past few weeks. Heck, if it wasn't for Nick's sparse but diligent last few posts, you might even think our run was over. But I'll go ahead and take the inspirational-sterility blame on the chin and tell you cryptically otherwise. It's just a slump--like Ray Allen's recent cold streak: the stroke is still there, it's just waiting for that big moment to break out again.

Navigating the post-college transition has kept me busy in the most unproductive and indecisive way. Woe is me aside, the past week or so has consisted of eating repetitive bagel sandwiches, and reclaiming my former bedroom from the unisex and innocuous makeover my mother gave it since I first moved out. But I have managed to spend a good chunk of graduation money on new records, and have slowly caught up on my GoogleReader. Oh, I also finally got a computer, which makes things easier.

The point is, expect the next few weeks to mark some kind of glorious return to form. This summer brings with it an abundance of some really great music: between album releases from My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, and Wolf Parade (just to name a few), local festivals like the Capitol Hill Block Party, PDX Pop Now!, Music Fest NW, and Bumbershoot, and the peak of touring season on the horizon, there should be lots to see, do--and write about.

But this whole blog/website is still an infantile work-in-progress, and I'd hate for us to take ourselves too seriously (at least more than we probably already do). The point is to write interesting things about interesting things we care about and want to share. That's it. No doubt there will be some occasional droughts and speedbumps.

I'm hoping to get album reviews of Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, and Fleet Foxes up by this weekend; and the plan is to make some kind of mp3 posting/podcasting improvements to the Gold Soundz section so you can take the music with you. Until then, keep the faith.



-James