Willie Cry Records is pleased to announce that American Darlings, a new band from Brooklyn, New York, has just signed on board the label. For those who are fans of bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur, Jr., Weezer and just classic, loud and melodic rock, then you should hop over to the Willie Cry site, scope out their bio page, and check out their two EP's, which, by the way, they are passing out to their beloved fans as a free download. So go and check out some new New Yorkness over there. Here, I'll make it easy for you and provide a link you can follow: AMERICAN DARLINGS
Hopefully, they'll be putting out a full-length album before long.
Damn, it's a conscientious exercise posting a blog on a regular weekly basis. It seems simple, but it's deceptive. OK, in reality, it's not too hard, but in unreality, which is where a lot of our thought processes take place, it is hard. It's easy for me to have scruples- everybody promoting themselves all the time, all the time. I don't want this to be viewed that way. This is hopefully a shout out of variety, sometimes short, sometimes long. Sometimes it's just a story, or randomness, or it's something perhaps of interest you can go and scope out, maybe get a freebie. True, some things are for sale, too.
I admit that I like the magic capabilities of computers, but I also like to give my eyes and brain a break from the staring light of them that has come to encompass society now and look into other things. Every now and then, I can see faces in practically everything I look at, and they seem to have some sort of soul embedded in them. I know I'm not crazy, because I can show them to other people.
I still plan to do the majority of anything I write in notebooks, and then type it. There's less distractions there, no icons to click on. It feels like holding time in your hands, or just being a time traveler from an ancient world that wasn't so long ago. Also, you don't have the pressure of knowing that several people will be reading what you write almost immediately, so it feels somehow more personal, and you can go over it and choose to share it or not at a later time. Well, all of these styles and ways of doing things have their own pros and cons, I think. Here I am dabbling in these various techniques. What's the point? I feel like I know a lot of people, but I don't really know that many of them very well anymore, if I ever did, but there's just some desire there somewhere to connect. Is it called being human?
So as much as I like the idea of doing a regular column, I also dislike the whole predictability of it. But if you change that word to "consistency", I don't mind. And then again, what's wrong with being predictable? You can "predict" that someone's going to try and do something they like to do. And by now, words can become vague and near meaningless.
Part of me doesn't want to expose anything personal on a regular basis, the other wants to be all revealed, all exposed, brought to the light, and to be exposed. Which side will win? I'll think about that for a bit.
And this isn't supposed to be all about me, even though I am writing it. Questions, anyone?
P.S. though we've been slow to make a Facebook page and the whole "Like" thing is kind of silly, I suppose having a page could come in handy when we're out touring around. They have some silly rule that you have to have 20 likes before you can get your personal address- so if you're just, like, really, like, feeling like "liking" something today, go to: http://www.facebook.com/
It's a work-in-progress.
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