http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:53:40 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/084605.php#comment-729473 The circumstances have been different for me, but I can in some ways identify with a piece of this. I've had CDs stare at me, daring and demanding me to write about them and I've returned their commands with a blank stare of my own, "I've got nothing. I've got fuckall to say to you and about you." Most of the time it stays that way. Sometimes, though, out of nowhere comes a small thread and from that thread comes an article. It sounds arrogant to say those tend to be my best and I'm not sure I've got the perspective to say that, but I will say some of those tend to be my favorites. I hope good days and good moments begin to outnumber the bad. 729473@blogcritics.org Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:53:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/084605.php#comment-729277 It is crazy how most of us attribute writing as a linear activity. That we need to get into a routine to write out something that is most times non-linear. I find that as the years have passed, my old writing techniques do not work the same anymore, that I have to adapt them to fit the evolved me. So maybe it is not a case of you finding the "old" linear pattern that you knew, but creating a new "linear". Just a thought. And, you know, Spring Heel Jack sounds like a country band name, not an electronic free jazz duo. But I digress. 729277@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:05:38 EDT