Text, text.

I know I've been posting mostly poems and songs lately and other people's photos. It's not my ideal way to construct my blog, but if it's between that and not posting anything, at least it keeps the ball rolling for me. That's been my commitment to this blog, just to keep it going, and not try to make it perfect or some kind of masterpiece. That kind of thinking has got me in ruts all my life and prevented me from doing a lot of things; seems like I'm always waiting till I can do a perfect job, and it never happens. In the meantime real life happens, like John Lennon said. Or like Roger Waters said, no one told you when to run—you missed the starting gun. It's like sometimes I'm spending my life always preparing for something. But for what? I think I'm just afraid of putting things out there, putting myself out there, because I'm afraid of criticism or rejection. So I take the lofty road of not doing anything, but thinking "I could if I wanted."

Anyways, with the weather nice these days, I would like to start getting out with my camera more, trying to get inspired for photography again so I can post my own pictures with my own poems, or in their own little photo posts. That was when my blog was best balanced and actually attracted some people, a little more than a year ago when I had gotten a new camera and was taking a bunch of pics and learning that art, or trying, while still writing about half prose commentary and half poetry on the text side (if that makes sense...). Now I've gotten pretty predictable, but like I said, I'm just glad that I post something most days. Keeps me in the habit.

I'm reading up on how to store audio files on free hosting sites and stream them to a blog, and also how to embed video (besides ready-made code like YouTube). It's pretty simple actually, you just need to know the syntax for the code that calls for the file and tells Blogger where it is. There are probably some legality issues with posting longer than 30-second clips of songs, but hey! no one notices my blog anyway, so I doubt I'm gonna get run down by the RIAA, who can rot in hell anyway. If someone asks me to take something down, I'll just take it down. In the meantime it might be more meaningful to people to hear the songs I post lyrics to. I think I've said this already in a previous post....

Oh well. My brain is on the blink again. That's good, means everything is normal. Ciao.