It seems like 2007 is going to be one of those years of new everything. My old blogger blog which had served me faithfully for a year and half all of a sudden completely and totally fucked up. I couldn’t upload new postings and worse, old postings were getting lost along with the comments that people were making! This of course was total shit, and couldn’t be tolerated! I mean I’m pretty relaxed about a lot of things in my life, but not my blog, because it’s my art, my legacy to the world, my connection with humanity! Oh no, when blogger started fucking with my blog, it was time to take drastic measures.
And so I did, making this here new blog that you are reading now. Youse all… all 5 of you! Well no matter, it’s not quantity but quality that counts I’ve always said! And youse faithful readers are all of the very highest quality! No matter what it says about you on toilet walls in seedy bars! It will take a while to get the layout and user feel-good factor just so, but yeah, if it means being able to post reliably and not lose your adoring comments which I just crave to read, then it’s going to be a fuck-sight better than that old dead horse of a blog I was flogging for no results and hence no reason!
I can’t help but think that my blogger issue is a small scale reflection of my wider life right now. So many things are different, with me and with people I am close to who surround me. I almost fail to take in how much life has changed in the last week if I stop thinking about it. It’s funny though, I’ve talked with a lot of people since NYE and almost everyone has said that 2006 was either a really good year or a really shit year, there wasn’t anyone that said it was just ‘okay’. Most everyone says that 2007 is going to be a year of radical change for them. I’d almost start to believe it’s the new age of aquarius or a Nostradamus prophecy coming true.
Maybe it’s got something to do with us all coming into the last few years of the first decade of the new millenium. I mean lets face it, this is the time period that defines the decade in our cultural history. Everyone will look back these few years as the benchmark for style, music, fashion and culture. I always feel that life starts to gain a momentum from here on in as we approach the beginning of a next decade too. The changeover of from one decade to another are always a transition point from one unique cultural definition to another. Which is why we can always point to a decade and say it had some particular feeling about it. The 70’s were rock, sex and long hair; the 80’s were glam, high tech and synthesised; the 90’s were grunge, underground rave, and a generation of apathetic kids all reaching adulthood. I’m still trying to work out what this decade is about. It doesn’t even have a name yet. What do you call it? The 1’s? Personally I like ‘first decade of the new millenium’, but it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like the others.
My feeling is that 2007 will be a year of change. I don’t even know how to qualify that in any meaningful way, except to say that there is an energy right now that is affecting a lot of people, and lives are moving in unexpected ways. I figure the best way to approach this is to be open to new things, and be positive when you see the landscape altering in front of you. After all, change is natural, it’s how you look at it and accept it that will determine whether it’s good or bad.
Padwanna!
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