So Hello Blog. . . Now What?

This is my first official post on my first official blog--well other than all of that personal Myspace rantings and ravings. . . . This will be a quick entry, but I'll briefly explain the reasonings behind this blog. . .

After graduating with a degree in radio/tv/film and journalism last December, it's been a long and trying year for me to find who I am and what my passions really include. While in school, I wrote a weekly music review column for my college newspaper--The Advance Titan, which I also double dutied as a managing editor. I wrote reviews from the spring of 2004 until the end of my college career in December of 2005. If you couldn't find me in the office of the AT, chances were you'd find me up at my 2nd home, my office at the college radio station WRST FM where I worked as the Music Director--reviewing endless piles of non-com records, kissing up to various music promoters and attempting never dying swings at organization.

So all in all, I was a music fiend. Whether or not I ever really had the slightest clue of what I was talking or writing about will remain a mystery, but one thing that was obviously apparent was my passion for discovering new musicians and experiencing the itch. The itch for something that was so new, innovative and made me bust out my moves and rock the headphones around campus and got me through the monatony of Wisconsin and my experience at a pretty non-cultured campus.

This past year, I've forgotten about the itch. I've lost some of the confidence and passion. Whether or not I can make a living doing what I love is unknown at this point--but after a recent conversation with a very close girlfriend, I was motivated enough to at least start my own blog and attempt to find my own roots.

As far as my ultra-mega cheesey emo title of the blog, I tried to pick something with some sort of revelance to the content I'll be posting about. . .

According to Dictionary.com:

vi·nyl /ˈvaɪnl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[vahyn-l] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. Chemistry. containing the vinyl group.

(some boring definitions I ommitted personally. . . )

4. Phonograph records considered as a group: a secondhand store that buys and sells vinyl.

rap·ture /ˈræptʃər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rap-cher] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb -tured, -tur·ing.
–noun
1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.

Music, whether in the shape of the record or not, is in itself a form of chemistry, magic if you will that has the ability to carry a person to another place in time as well as possessing that itch that I've missed so much.

So now kids, the cheesiness ends here, well for now anyway.


Let's see how this thing works out. . . .