you know how years ago I planned to blog about some stuff?

Well, blogging about how Koshkin uses cross movement motific development in his Sonata for flute and guitar would make a fun blog entry but there's the whole problem of not being in a position to use musical samples. And, to be honest, it occurred to me that I don't REALLY want to write such a lengthy article as a blog, lay out what essentially could be a term paper for an undergrad course .... or maybe even a master's thesis on Koshkin's use of cross-movement thematic mutation as a form of fusion between classical and rock influences ... and then just have some kid out in the blogosphere rip it off as term paper material. Not that that is LIKELY to happen but I want to promote music I care about in a way where I'm not making it too easy for people to take shortcuts but make it "too easy" for people to go find the stuff I'm commending.

For instance, I plan to do a fairly detailed write-up about Atanas Ourkouzounov's new CD when I can finally manage to get it but you'll forgive me for being unemployed and not ideally situated to go buying CDs. I may attempt to research and write about Igor Rekhin's 24 preludes and fugues for solo guitar, however, since I believe such a cycle of pieces deserves more attention in the West on principle. Jack Duarte mentioned it but not a whole lot of other people have mentioned it. So that is something I hope to blog about when time and resources permit. But some of the stuff I set out to blog about would be too time-consuming.

And my attempt to blog about themes like systemic and culturally ingrained child abuse as depicted in Eureka Seven? Well, I love the show but I have better things to do with my time, probably ... even though I'm unemployed and technically "could" devote time to examining those themes. Life has a habit of catching up with you and I, never one to really be "with it" in whatever is of the moment most of the time, can't be bothered. I track Pixar films and, yes, I saw Zombieland, and Up, and the new Trek movie but I have limits. I'm the sort of almost handicapable folks who can't always get out to see this or that and don't have the impulse to just buy new CDs or DVDs because other people are into things. I studious avoided both the Nirvana AND Radiohead fads over the last fifteen or twenty years. Bjork and Weezer and Portishead on the other hand ... .