The lovely month of August, which is, at least way up north here where I live, the last month of summer and ends with the first days of autumn is almost here, and wow that summer went by fast.
The lovely month of August, which is, at least way up north here where I live, the last month of summer and ends with the first days of autumn is almost here, and wow that summer went by fast.
After almost a week off after the end of the semester, I just started my work marathon yesterday. Will be working 8 hour shifts every day up until Christmas, mostly between 4PM and midnight. Can’t say I’m really looking forward to it, but it’ll give me a good financial start to the new year, and I can hopefully finally get some new clothes and stuff. Seen so many cool things, especially t-shirts and shoes, on the intarwebs recently, I can’t wait to actually do a little shopping.
Other than working, I’m hoping to get quite a bit a work over at Silent Sound Waves. Looking at the stats, I’m actually surprised by how well we’re doing in Google already. It accounts for most of our visitors right now, and we’re getting decent ranks for pretty much all of our reviews almost instantly. This is pretty great, and I think it speaks volumes about how great WordPress is for SEO purposes.
With this in mind, I want to give our reviews section some extra padding by hopefully writing up a new review per day for the next week. I don’t think there’s much purpose in reviewing old albums, so I’ll be focusing on 2008 albums, and in particular those who will most likely make it to our best-of-the-year list, which I hope to publish sometime between Christmas and the new year.
I’ve also decided to take one new person on the team, and I’ll be giving him a quick introduction when we both have the time, and hopefully he’ll start contributing after that. I’m excited to have him with us, and I think he’ll be able to write some great posts and articles that will be interesting for our readers, and hopefully draw in some new ones as well!
I’m also working on a monster of an article that I am certain will do really well in the various social sharing sites, but it’s not exactly top priority at the moment. Aiming to get it ready and published before the end of the year though.
Yesterday at work I think I heard through Day & Age at least three times, maybe four, because of a lack of alternatives. It’s actually better than my first impression suggested, and a few of the tracks are every bit as good as I had expected the album to be. Right now I’m loving Joy Ride and Neon Tiger, great songs! One interesting thing about the album though is the lyrics, which are much more cryptic and less acessible than those on Sam’s Town.
Oh and if you didn’t get it from the headline, Okkervil River is still near the top of my playlist. The Stand Ins is such a fantastic record, one of the best of the year for sure!
Long time, no real blog post, as usual. I’m also sure you 60 odd subscribers have been checking your feedreaders at least a couple of times per day, eagerly anticipating another update from me. I dearly apologize for not pulling through, until now of course!
Truth be told however, there hasn’t really been much to talk about. Life has been taking its usual course with university and work in the front seats (my life has two front seats in addition to the driver seat), spiced with a little bit of fun and heartache in between. Uninteresting stuff for the most part, and certainly nothing anyone of you would want to read.
I have also been “preparing” for Silent Sound Waves by listening to music, a whole lot of music. I am also keeping up with the scene by spending quite a bit of time over at AbsolutePunk (my profile), and I think I am closing in on the place where I feel like I have enough to contribute with to actually justify a music blog.
One thing I have been contemplating though is whether or not I want to try and get someone to help me out with the blog. Posting as much as I’d like is going to be extremely time consuming, and finding one or two people to help me out with a post a week would make it a lot more feasible. Finding someone who is willing without any monetary compensation however will probably prove to be quite hard.
To close up, I feel like I need to make some more modifications to the blog. The current setup isn’t working very well, and activity is down a whole lot. I need to find a middleground between the current setup and the traditional blog frontpage, because it isn’t giving the posts enough attention. Plus I need to find a lifestream plugin which actually works, as the current one isn’t fetching my Pownce activity for some reason.
Will keep you up to date on all of this, and any other interesting thing that might, however unlikely, happen!
So it is 9AM and here I am at the University, with nothing to do. Had a lecture scheduled to start at eight, but it got cancelled, so right now I’m just surfing around the web and wasting time. I have no litterature from the curriculum yet as they have yet to arrive at campus, and I thought what could be better than to write a little update at my blog for all of my loyal readers to read?
These days it seems that everything in my life is actually moving in slow motion, and while I am at “normal speed”, there is nothing I can do but be patient and wait for everything to fall into place. Why the philosophical approach to life today? Not sure honestly, it just feels like this is the time to be patient for me, instead of trying to be on top and controlling every little aspect.
As you may know if you follow me on Twitter, my recently purchased car is not running as well as one had hoped for. It’s got an appointment with the car doctor tomorrow, and it’ll be “interesting” to see how far getting it fixed will set me back. Purchasing and owning a car is expensive enough as it is here in Norway, and adding outrageous prices for parts and mechanic-hours can do serious damage to a student. I’ll know soon enough though, and I’ll get it sorted one way or another, so I’m not spending too much time worrying.
Another thing that happened recently is that my MacBook recently got an unfortunate case of the cracks. No worries though, I talked to Apple Support and they’ll cover it even though I don’t have AppleCare. Unfortunately there is no service for Apple here in the town that I live in, which means I’ll have to send my dear away, and I’m a little hesitant about it. It will leave me computerless for a couple of weeks most likely, which is never fun, especially as I am eager to really get working on Silent Sound Waves. I have wasted enough time however, and I guess I’ll be sending it off tomorrow so that I can get it back as soon as possible.
Other than that there’s not a whole lot of exciting things going on at the moment. I was at a festival this weekend and got to see Amy MacDonald and Travis live. They both put on a great show, and I must admit I was positively taken by suprise by Amy’s appearance. A beautiful girl with a fantastic voice no doubt! In less than three weeks I am going to see Coldplay live for the first time as well, and I am completely stoked about it, and I really hope I can have my Macbook back by the time so I can report on the concert while it is still a fresh feeling, because those feelings are really what music is all about, aren’t they?
Anyways that’s it for now. Going to grab a bite to eat and see if I can’t find someone to hang out with so that when I go home later instead of now, I can feel like I’ve done something with the day as I’ve been spending it at Uni instead of home!