I’m alive, but a different kind of alive!
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!