ans99

I feel like my internet presence has been disjointed and confusing, so I've been trying to merge more things together. I'm going to run down a list of things I have to make it easier to follow what I've been up to. For those who have been playing the game to win, this list will (mostly) seem a bit redundant:

1. MUSIC

First off, my new band's sites. We've just bought a domain name:

http://www.neverrightnow.com

which right now just redirects to our BandCamp site:

http://neverrightnow.bandcamp.com

The BandCamp site has better quality streams of our music, and you can also download the songs we have up there (and when we have an album, it'll be available for download/purchase there).

We've also got a Myspace at:

http://myspace.com/neverrightnow

where we'll be posting songs and gigs (when we have 'em) and where you can friend us if you have a Myspace.

You can also become a fan of Never Right Now on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Never-Right-Now/326417010926?ref=ts

For good measure we'll be uploading our songs and announcing gigs here as well. There's also the added community aspect of Facebook, because we get to post discussions and links, which I find so super neat.

We hope to get up an actual site soon at our new domain, with lyrics and bio/press kit stuff and blog links and such. In the works: a blog (probably Wordpress, Twitter, a spot at ReverbNation, and (once we begin to amass some video content), YouTube.

2. ART IN GENERAL

My nifty-difty (it's a word now that I've typed it) art blog is at:

http://ans99.wordpress.com/

And there is an LJ feed located at:

http://hieratic_art.livejournal.com

Here I'll post my photos, drawings, fanvids, writing, and of course any developments in the band or music in general. It's DEFINITELY worth following if you like what I do at all, because it'll probably all get mentioned and then linked from there.

I've also got Hieratic updates being crossposted automatically to Twitter.

3. TUMBLR

My Tumblog is at:

http://ans99.tumblr.com

I used to have to ship Twitter to LJ (which is apparently an incredible social faux pas) in order to bring my Tumblr posts to my friends list. Now I've created a direct LJ feed:

http://ans99tumblr.livejournal.com/

In my personal Tumblog, I reblog and post all sorts of things 'round the Internet that make me smile, weep, get angry, and, last but not least, think. It's a nice collection of what inspires me on the 'Net, but also of interesting tidbits from sources that might not make the mainstream news. I also tend to post pertinent updates from my other blogs when I remember.

In addition, because of all the inane book covers I run across in the course of my job (which at least in part has me putting up book reviews on a website), I created an additional Tumblr mocking said book covers:

http://wtfbookcovers.tumblr.com

The LJ feed is here:

http://wtfbookcovers.livejournal.com

Some of these seriously have to be seen to be believed.

4. TWITTER

My Twitter is at:

http://twitter.com/ans99

Twitter is kind of a dumping ground and I'm scared to go there much because with my day and my rampant Internet addiction as full blown as it already is, I really cannot keep up with what kind of sandwich Adam Savage ate for lunch or what Neil Gaiman said to Amanda Palmer over the phone. So this is not used for much more than notifying any readers of Tumblr posts, and now Hieratic posts, that I've made. OCCASIONALLY I will do an actual Tweet. Also our British cell phone has texting capabilities so when I go overseas I'll probably use it again for trip updates.

I think that's it.

OH. Before I forget:

If you have a site (for art, or writing, or whatever) and you'd like to be linked from any of my sites, please let me know. I'd love to include you. I'm especially interested in rebuilding the blogroll for Hieratic. Most of the links from Digitalis will be rolled over but I know some of you might have some new stuff you want to share.

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So in other news, today I've got some sort of eyelid swelling going on. It's burny and obnoxious, and I don't want to go out in public. I woke up this way, so I'm not sure what happened. Took some Tavist, which did NOTHING, and applied an icepack to the eye. Nothing is really beating it too well though :(

Also, all my Neko Case arrived, as well as the Doctor Who 2009 specials. The Neko Case is of course awesome, and I've been listening to it all afternoon.

But the specials artwork... ugh. Ok, First off, not enough Master! I'm rather incensed that Wilf gets the other CD for End of Time (Doctor gets the other of course). WTF. The story is about TIME LORDS. Not some doofy old person who... well, maybe that's a spoiler. But he doesn't deserve the Master's place, that's for dang sure. He just got in the way the entire story!

Also, the inside cover art for it is just entirely too melodramatic:



Give me a flippin' break.

for whatever reason i just decided to read the blog of some random chick i used to go to middle and high school with. she was one of the moderately popular and interesting, and not a total bitch mind you. and a few years ago kind of out of the blue she happened to dis me in passing while in conversation with someone else, and because i hear LIKE A BAT of course i caught wind of it. and.

i was going somewhere with this, but i'm not sure where. suffice to say her blog is one of the most boring things i've ever read. and it makes me more sad than anything, but it seems to be the way of people from That Place. they just get sucked into it and never leave, and then they turn into the boring old people they never thought they'd turn into, like some sort of longstanding family curse. she writes with this banal, self-important air that i remember indulging myself in when i was 12 years old. she talks about how to get discounts at restaurants. i feel like i've just gotten a glimpse into what could have been my future, if i'd been bred to be content, told i was okay just the way i was, liked right off the bat. instead of, you know, being kicked around emotionally like some sort of sad little ball of trash. maybe a crumpled-up love note on the back of a napkin, tossed when someone lost their nerve or lost their direction, deciding it ultimately wasn't worth it, or i don't know.

and maybe i'm not seeing the full richness of her ultra-exciting life via a simple blog, but i just don't know. when you're young you just think you're going to do so much, right? and when i was back there nobody had these crazy dreams, it seemed. at least nobody shared them with me, nobody hinted it was anything more than popularity from beginning to end, just scraping by to get the grades, kicking others out of the way to climb to the top of the honors list. even cheating to get there. and for what? everyone's getting married now, getting excited about buying houses and having children and it always seems too soon, it seems like a let-down after everything we were told we could be growing up. god, it's like at the end of mona lisa smile except it's the entire class.

where is everybody?

i don't really feel vindicated because nobody deserves the sterile hell that she appears to have sunk into. i just... feel like i went to school with a bunch of paper dolls, in the valley of the paper dolls, and i'm lucky to have escaped with my individuality intact. and it's a strange, haunting feeling, looking back on the past like that and seeing how very little has changed and nothing has grown. i'm not sure i can express it any more eloquently than that.