yeah, if you see me making a big proclamation, then I must be lying

The summer has started off slowly, easily, and on my own terms...it's funny how un-busy you can feel in the middle of the most structured and busy schedules. I don't feel like posting stuff I did last semester for a final project, so scratch the previous big proclamations. The only big proclamations I've made that have also come to fruition were ones that already had sufficient inertia to guarantee arrival pushing them forward. So I would have already had 3 huge posts ready to go, then said "I've got this great idea for a series of posts!" then they would've gone up.

Which brings us here: The illusion of spontaneity in music. I don't know if that's true or not...

anyway, I've just spent two hours looking at http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/ and have somehow ended up listening to the Fantastic Planet OST. This reminded me of how entrenched in academia I've been for the past two years and how narrowly focused that entrenchment makes one. and that it'll get narrower and narrower until the day I'm out of law school. Point is, I hope to go to law school in Chicago, where I won't be as cut off from the music world I love most...all the weird, random places to see music in Chicago and some of the medium-small places as well. During the year, I live in one of those towns where the occasional good band comes through. Then the rest of the time it's local rock shit...but there's tons of it, so you often get told there's a good music scene there.

I spent a couple years just reading Chicago Rash Audio Potential at http://www.savagesound.com/ and going where it told me to go. Much of my life is spent in this manner. Some things have lead me on several year long tangents that ended (or will end) at dead ends, but Malachi Ritscher's calendar was far more helpful. The rest of my music-listening life will continue to grow from the foundation of "bands I found through CRash. In November 2006, Ritscher burned himself alive in protest of the Iraq war near the Ohio St. exit...I want to say that's very surreal, but the calender sits there on 11/3/06. Like most things I find useful and interesting, I took it so for granted, yet there it sits. Fucking incredible that it's coming up on 2 years now...and of the thousands upon thousands of dissenting actions and words towards the war that I've heard, that will always ring the loudest.

Anyway, it seems http://now-is.org/index.html has taken over and there I shall go.