If a blog isn’t read does it really exist?
Have been consumed this week by work on the main website. It is ridiculous how much time I have been spending in front of the computer screen and how addictive it is.
Actually my behaviour regarding cocktailandrecords.net for the past week (rushing home to be with it, eating tea with it, staying up late with it, furtively planning it during work hours) distinctively reminds me of earlier addictions to those classic Sierra computer games like SpaceQuest, PoliceQuest etc. etc. These, like rubbish romance novels and trashy ‘lifestyle’ magazines (ahh…Dolly magazine) formed a small and addictive, but necessary part of my early teenage years. You need to get it out of your system before moving on. Even if that’s moving on to a life of spending all of your time and money on proper things like music, film tickets and expensive bottles of spirits. So will my recent website addiction end up just going the way of my weekends with SpaceQuest? Well, only time will tell…
Until then, I’m off to the Jazz Cafe for some non-web related downtime with Nicola Conte.
Tags: dirty nostalgia, mindless minutiae