Archive for December, 2007
2007: The Year in Review
December 31st, 2007
In this year, 2007, I:
- gave up a perfectly good, stable job that I’d had for ten years for a risky venture that paid more–or, rather, promised to pay more–and didn’t even last two months. Thus did I confirm the adage by which I’ve lived my life since grad school: risk is never worth it.
- came within a hair’s breadth of committing murder.
- did not commit murder, henceforth immunizing myself against the threat of ever “going there again” by realizing that it’s positively ridiculous to ever permit a human being to weigh so much on one’s conscience, no matter what that person has done.
- learned that “love” is simply Not Worth The Trouble, and that the best relationships are those that are casual or, at least, undemanding. Never, ever again will I even consider altering a major portion of my life in response to another person’s expectations.
- went through months of therapy to come to above conclusions.
- learned that no matter how “liberal” a so-called “Christian institution” may be, said institution is, nonetheless, a seething snakepit of backstabbers, “good ol’ boys clubs,” and falsehoods, all carefully hidden behind a shallow, flaking veneer of hypocritical “Christian virtue.” Never trust a Christian. Period.
After last year, I have but one resolution for the coming year, now less than twelve hours away: Survive. I have no ambitions left, nor goals, nor cares; I have lost every expectation of a “Quiet, Normal Life.” Honestly, if I live to see New Year’s Eve 2009, then I will consider 2008 a great success.
What am I doing here, anyway?
December 27th, 2007
Wow. The last time I posted anything here was…ummm, in June. A lot has happened since then…and very little of it good. However, many months, a new job, and massive amounts of therapy later, it looks like I’m officially Back in the Saddle and ready to spray the Internet (and, therefore, your eyeballs, Dear Reader) with my particular, peculiar blend of juvenile enthusiasm and world-weary spleen!
What does this mean? Well, for one…a new theme: something grey and depressing, but easy-to-read and clean, almost minimalistic. But also, a number of older posts have disappeared. Important or interesting stuff remains, of course; I’ve simply deleted material that A) never developed properly; or B) is neither timely anymore nor of any historical interest. Simple housecleaning, that’s all.
What does the coming new year promise? A great deal more writing. For one, readers of PEGRITZ(.com)!’s sister sites, NONFICTION!, Oneirophrenia.net, and Footnotes to the Human Species will discover said sites brought into closer alignment with my primary site and completely revised/restructured/remade for 2008. Don’t worry: redirects will abound. Readers may need to update an RSS feed here or there, but that’s about it.
My band, Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos (official site), will be finishing its “second” album, Strange Aeons, in the early months of 2008, and will, of course, provide it free of charge online as high-quality (>256kbps), Creative-Commons-licensed mp3s. That’s right, free.
Plus, I’m working on a ton of other music, as well. Expect new jams from A Doctrine of Works, Retar-D2, and my latest project, Excitable Boy!
Speaking of music…my music-review blog, The Spacing Guild Guide to Good Music, is going away. Vox.com barely gets any traffic, and, though it features some excellent tools and abilities that make maintaining a music-blog very easy…well, the site barely gets any traffic. So, all of its content is going to migrate over hyar, and will be expanded considerably with even more reviews and mp3 samples! In other words, don’t just take my word on a piece of music: give it a listen yourself.
This year, I resolve to do my absolute best to update this site regularly. I doubt I’ll be able to do so, but…hey, I’ll try.
Here’s the hoping 2008 won’t be as miserable as 2007 was!
