retro-blogging
Tom has put up a bunch of old links on Freaky Trigger, revisiting a strange Golden Age of music and culture blogging from the turn of the millennium. I quite miss it actually, even in this day of RSS feeds of hundreds of blogs. There are quite a few blogs and sites that seem to be missing on there, but it's going to take awhile to see what he missed, although most of it seems to be revolving around the NYLPM axis. Hopefully i have an old bookmark file stowed away.
I only started blogging in the aftermath of that, in 2000, during the election recount. For a few years before that, i'd been putting music fansites up every few weeks. The blogging thing didn't make a connection until later. My old site was Fighting Against Making the Pie Higher. Until a couple of weeks ago, i wasn't even sure if it was still online. I didn't look it up out of embarrassment.
No matter how much any of it makes me wince, it will be rescued.
The real Orbis Quintus must come back soon too. Blogger ain't my style. Wordpress is missed immensely.
2 comments:
That blog was awesome. I only read one looong page so far, but I loved it. Although I disagree about Mammy Blue. Derivative of their (other?) cover, Brother Louie (or whatever its called), YES, but enjoyable enough. I like the first Stories disc better. Hey France! Where ARE you going?
Glad that you enjoyed the old blog. It was a giddy time.
Just uploaded the two and a half years of of posts of the original Orbis Quintus.
Having a little trouble getting the archive of comments back online though. they are so permeated with spam that they are not possible to upload, as the file is too large. If i was just dumping the Ismail Axe idiots, it would be no great loss, but there were some communities growing on in a handful of odd posts that might never bloom again. I miss them.
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