New Bloginnings

I'm not nearly hip enough to be blogging.

That's right, I said it!

Here's the thing: I had an embarassingly melodramatic Online Journal about 5 years ago, long before it was cool. And believe you me, it was not cool back then. Now it is cool. Very, very cool. Supercool. Paul Newman cool. Bruce Springsteen cool. Jack Nicholson cool. And not necessarily in that order, either.

So, now it is coming to pass, as it has with almost every major social networking megafad that has gripped our consciousness in the last 3 years or so, I'm going to blog again. It will give me a new platform for wiseass comments (as if I needed one of those...lately, it's been the Facebook status update.), and to be honest, I've missed writing regularly about the various things on my mind. So, here I am. It would be a real accomplishment if this one keeps going. We'll see, friends and neighbors! But, don't even bother asking, I'm not getting on Twitter. Twitter scares me.

So, here's another observation: Nowadays, blogs have themes! So, as my work and my major interests would suggest, Music and Musings seems like an appropriate title, although I'll change it in a second if, in the middle of the night, I am struck by something awe-inspring, like Wrathfully Raging Liberal. I don't think I fall into that particular category..besides, Lori writes that kind of stuff way better than I do, so I doubt I'll be going to town on political issues in this blog. Instead, I'm going to be talking about my favorite thing: Music! I'm going to try and include a little bit of everything. But, because I'm a classical musician (cue pretentious music), I'll probably be talking about that a good bit. Also, because I'm know to go off on the occasional (read, crazily regular) existential musings about things I find funny, confusing, or all of the above...The title will give me license to write about all the odds and ends I enjoy so much.

So...Here goes--Intro over...let's have some fun!