Friday, February 29, 2008

and so it begins...

so...long story short, due to requests from close friends, family, and my mass comm. instructor, i have decided to start blogging again. yes, again. you see, my instructor thinks it's a good way to keep your writing juices flowing (if he only knew) and suggested to me the other day that i start up a blog. well, i am no stranger to blogs - i was blogging before blogging was even called blogging, much less considered an honest-to-God American pastime. these were the days where us youngsters dumped our teen angst and hormone-induced confusion onto websites such as xanga and livejournal (neglected as they are, i still have accounts for both) and a time long before myspace became a fox news story/national phenomenon and destroyed the idea of intimacy on a website for people like me, because lets face it, facebook and myspace are the last places on earth that you're going to talk about your daily life, and definitely not the place for people who give a rats ass what happens in your daily life. they're more suited for asking your friend down the street, "whats up?" when a cell phone is too inconvenient, or showing everyone on your top friends that you have a genuine social life and you have photographic proof. yes, it does help you keep up with distant friends, but so did those other websites, and on an actual personal level.

so i guess what i'm saying is, i miss that.

for me it was therapy. writing in general has always been my form of venting, whether it be song writing, napkin doodling, or opinion papers for my psychology class, and it's been a major part of my life ever since i started having spurts of insomnia on a monthly basis around the age of 14.

anyway, enough of why i took up blogging again. hi, my name is ty. i'm young (19), but self-aware, and a lover of all things music. especially "old" music. i'm also a fan of things that are bad for me that can be later blamed on my youth. and sarcasm, if you hadn't picked that one out yet. i enjoy the simple things in life, like irony, sunsets, and walks on the beach. as well as a glass of wine now and then. i hear it's good for you, but in a "healthy choice" kinda way (how much healthy choice can you eat before it's no longer a healthy choice?) - which is where the whole "youth" thing comes into play. some people call that "irresponsible" or "reckless" - i call it the American way, baby.

fortunately for you, i'm not always sarcastic, and i do in fact have the ability to take things seriously, i just usually choose not to. i'd rather just sit back and watch celebrities lose weight on television or relax to Bob Marley's Legend.

well, i think that's about all i got in me for tonight. today has officially caught up with me and yawning has ensued. which reminds me to mention that it will be nothing short of miraculous if this thing gets updated more than once a week. okay, later days.

one love
-T