It’s been eight months since I’ve posted on this page. Obviously, things are looking different. I moved to a different host. Blogger didn’t offer enough choices in templates, and I was starting to get tired of spending so much time trying to write my own script. I’ll admit, everything got a little better when Blogger updated a bunch of functions. But it wasn’t enough. Well, it was enough, but not the right enough. A change was needed. So I moved to WordPress, which I’m liking so far.
And now for the reason I’m here after such a long absence. I originally started rocknrollscientist three years ago because I desperately needed an outlet. An outlet for writing about music, culture, film, art, food, and pop culture. At the same time, I needed someplace where I could post random fiction that popped into my head. Most of it was about talking office supplies.
At first it worked out really well. I had a lot of fun, and my friends were reading it. But I started getting obsessed with my stats. And then out of nowhere one day, a music marketing company contacted me about pimping their artists for them. The payoff was free music. I took the bait, and went to work. My page hits were movin’ on up, but still nowhere near what I had hoped. Eventually more companies started contacting me, including the music marketing divisions of Vice and Filter magazines. They would email me with MP3s and tour dates and press kits for new bands and records. Some of them would send me free CDs to review and write about. They knew I DJ on the weekend, so that was yet another reason to give me free stuff.
When it began, I liked it, but it got to the point where I felt obligated to post everything whether I liked the band/album or not. And posting with photos, links, and other crap was too time-consuming for me. Come October 2006, and I started a new job that was much more intensive than the previous one. So I cut the cord with the marketing companies, and stopped posting on rocknrollscientist.
People are always telling me I should be writing about music, and I agree. So here I am.
