3 posts tagged “blogging”
This was originally posted on January 3, 2003. It's long since been offline but like all the On a path archives it still lives on my hard drive. Ellen and I were talking about this list this morning so I thought I'd resurrect it.
"Music to Slash Your Wrist To" is being put together by my aunt Ellen and myself via email today. We only have the first two tracks thus far so I'll come back and add others as we get them.
Music to Slash Your Wrist To
1. Chicago by Ryan Adams, Ellen
2. Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones, Michelle
3. Romeo and Juliet by the Indigo Girls (live Mountain Stage version), Ellen
4. Two Star by Everything But The Girl, Michelle
5. Black by Pearl Jam, Ellen
6. Brick by Ben Folds Five, M
7. Brag by the Cutting Crew, E
8. New Favorite by Alison Krauss and Union Station, M
9. February by Dar Williams, E
10. Grace by Jeff Buckley, M
11. Wasted Time by The Eagles *With the orchestral "Wasted Time Reprise" that preceeds it, E
12. Half a World Away by REM, M
13. Sane by Nate Borofsky, E
14. Do What You Have To Do by Sarah McLachlan, M
15. Walk Away by the Indigo Girls, E
16. Colorblind Counting Crows, M
17. November Rain by Guns and Roses (full 8 minute version), E
18. In the Gloaming by The Story, M
19. I Will Never Be the Same by Melissa Etheridge
20. Silver Dagger by Dolly Parton, M
I've added a lot of music to my collection in the past four years so I can definitely think of some additions and changes.
From On a path
The article in the local weekly that I mentioned a little while ago is out now. It's one of the very few places where you'll see a photo of me where I'm not in a group or I'm not with my beloved B. So run, don't walk to read it.
I'm thinking of blogging again at On a path. I like vox like I liked livejournal for a minute, it's like a conversation with a few friends. But even though I'm over blogging the way I once did (total honesty, complete openess with information and opinions, excessive personal unimportant, uninteresting small stuff) I miss being part of the internet/blogging community. I want a place to write some longer more interesting things about society, pop culture, the internet, business blogging, gay issues and a variety of other topics that aren't appropriate or of interest to the vox audience I think. I thought about starting a brand new blog but I don't want to abandon the four years of content I have online and although I cringe now at reading some of the things I wrote at On a path I don't need to be disassociated with it. So why start over? No reason, just pick up where you left off.
Another reason I want to go back to blogging again as opposed to...what would you call this, social networking maybe, is because it's like a conversation with a few friends. Meaning only the friends who are invited are involved. The people in this current invited conversation I met either directly or indirectly through On a path. I mean I met people that I love and adore and are big parts of my life (and flew cross the country to come to our celebration) because I met them through On a path. I feel like I've been closed to meeting new people that way for a while and that's just silly. Why would I not be open to meeting more people who I really like? Lame on me.
Also, I feel like there is stuff that I could share and maybe even should share publicly in the blog arena. I mean several people were kind/brave enough to comment on my post about weight and age and it was a) uplifting/helpful to me and b) it seemed like other people were glad to be talking about it as well. When I started thinking about these issues and what I wanted to do/was going to do about them there were two blog posts that I found extrememly useful and I'm extremely grateful that the writers wrote them and put them openly online. Not to mention the inspiration I took from Cecily's writing from a few years back (including Days of Our Thighs). Maybe one person would feel that way about my post. I'd like that to be a possibility. Those two posts by the way are Fat Headed by Lance Arthur & Fat is a feminist issue by Ariel Meadow Stallings.
Hmm, yes writing this has made decide to definitely bring On a path back to life in an active way. I'll still post private conversation-y things here but in general it will be Exposure for photography, Consuming Indy for Indianapolis and On a path for Michelle Jones.
