Some Thoughts.

In an age of digital reliance, sometimes you seriously need to take a step back to appreciate anything.  Whether it be music, art, or even personal relationships; reflection is a necessity.  I left normal review site because I grew tired of the process, publicist are simply doing their job to push their product and I can respect that they are simply doing their job.  But then depending who you wrote for their was a level of not being honest about how you felt or a certain format you must follow.  While I was lucky enough not to deal with too much of this it felt rudimentary.  Why review something that is offered in a full album stream or leaked the same day anyways?  People obviously have every opportunity to form their own opinions unlike times say even ten years ago when people based purchases off magazine reviews. I saw writing in this fashion to be mind numbing and formulaic and truly pointless.  When I write just for myself, to share a story about my experience with the release and or artist it not only serves as a scrapbook of sorts for myself but it holds more meaning.  It isn't simply 2/5 or 7.5/10 stars or whatever fucking nonsense someone deems to rate art which is not something that should be graded anyways.  One can state whether or not they like something but to grade art is to belittle someone else when the critic himself tends to have little or no talent of his own.  At the end of the day its just one persons bullshit opinion flowing from his/her mouth and or keyboard in this case.  No one needs another critic to tell them what the fuck is hip, lame ass elitist mentalities have no place in this world, forged your own opinions.  Take what you will from anything on this blog, contribute if you want I have no problem letting it be a collective forum for others, or if you don't like this find another outlet to either voice your opinions but no matter what use your voice and don't settle for some hack to tell you whats "in" or isn't cool because its too "hyped".