It turns out, Jefferson City is the capital of Missouri, who knew? I found out the hard way today. St. Louis eat your heart out.
In July of 2015 (or June?) I bought and started this website. Fun fact, it was intended originally as a website dedicated to student loan information. Basically giving me a place to put my own spin on the whole ordeal. Also giving me a reason to actually investigate the actual laws and what's REALLY going on, as I was ignorant to a lot of it. But that faded quickly, becoming my own space, my own little corner of the world, albeit small, to express myself. A place to converge all aspects of my art and ideas of future art into one singular place. Music is on Soundcloud, Facebook has the most exposure, must post Soundcloud link ON Facebook page to promote album...On Bandcamp. etc. and that's just music. Instagram: Sharing life. Blogger: Sharing thoughts/verbal diarrhea. Youtube: Sharing art/thoughts via video. Facebook I can use theoretically for writing and photo albums, but it's not condusive to anything nowadays except a diatribe, or quipy ideas (see twitter).
My issue with Facebook, although it's the universal tool and can be used to link anything to it, providing access to all, it forces people to see things they do not care about. It puts a bad taste in their mouth. it puts a bad taste in my mouth. Even though I only have 70+ "friends" at best, I can't stand most of the things they post. Sometimes it's a repost of some crap meme. Horrible creations, but I digress. My point is, on Facebook, you are shoving your shit down people's throats. Your music, videos, thoughts, opinions (yuck) everything is forced because it is required to be on your feed. I can't SEEK anything out. It's all given to me. I can't choose what i see freely. This is the whole point of the application I suppose, but I've come to a realization with it all.
If someone wants to know where I am, or see what I;m doing, or know, hear, see, read more about me, they can seek me out. But folks don't feel the need to do that anymore, as when you post something, that's it! That's all you need to do. All this drivel ends up in their feed and they ingest it mindlessly like cattle. No one knows what they want anymore, they just swipe and keep swiping until they need to do another 5 minutes of work. They need not think. But the few (and it dwindles) moments they come-to and realize they don't care about your dog or fish or that you had a bad day, they hate you. People begin to dislike the things that are constantly shoved in their conscious mind. I find myself shaking my head scrolling, but when I think of an old friend I haven't heard from, I immediately take to the internet streets and search them up and down and find out what they've been posting, doing, in and out of Facebook etc. It's a necessary tool, but I don't hold myself to that regard where I feel the need to shove my life down other's throats.
Which is where this website comes into play. Keep in mind, I bash social media, but I cannot bash my insatiable desire to share my life or publicize it. I am an artist at heart. I discover this more and more each week of each passing year. I'm not only a drummer, singer, guitarist, pianist, or a musician, or writer, or videographer, or documentarian or amateur photographer, or blogger etc. I am simply an artist and cannot peg myself into one hole or another. I express myself in various ways, and those ways will expand as time passes. I need an outlet, I'm under no pretense that anyone SHOULD read, hear or see my art. I don't care. But I do feel the need to make it public. I am under no illusion anyone cares or will. But having it out there for people who might care to be able to see what I do if they so CHOOSE is what this is about. Which is why I will be, for the time being, posting on all sites of mine as my last official post for a while, simply pointing them in the direction of this site. It kill two birds. They won't hear from me and I won't be in the collective's mind which i was never under the illusion of, but if I was, it's better off and it'll be one less fly in the face. AS WELL AS, if I do pop into someone's mind, and they should go seek out my Facebook page, they will see my last post about this site, visit, and discover this is where I've been living all this time. PLUS, it will be a place where they can get EVERYTHING in one place. Music, Video, Photo, Writing of all forms. Without the hassle of working to connect all the different mediums. Paring down.
If you want me, you can find me here... havenoillusions.com