2003-02-09

 
Welcome to Future Wave.
Welcome to my blog. For a while I fought the urge to create one of these things. I love the DIY ethic, and my mother homepage was created by my remedial HTML skills on my school's server. I have a writings page on there that has excerpts from my ink journals over the past few years... That is the stuff I'm proud of. You should certainly check it out. However, I decided to make this blog separate from those journals. They are a sort of post-stoner reflection on life and I try to be devoid of personal activity in the paper-and-ink journals. Besides, they are too valuable to me to want to abandon the practice of writing on scraps of paper at odd hours of the day and then transcribing them into the bound journal (I bound the newest one myself!) The bound journals are probably too inaccessible for widespread public consumption, so it's best they remain elsewhere. This blog's purpose is to help friends (and strangers!) find out what I'm up to, and to personally document this challenging portion of my life (read: figure out what I'm doing here).

Nevertheless, I decided to make this go more smoothly by affiliating myself with this free Blog service. It hurts me, but at least I'm not buying a car or eating cheese (I'm a vegan bicycling environmentalist AKA hippy). I guess what I can do, though, is interlink between the journal and the blog.

And, it is only fitting that this blog begins three weeks before my big adventurous move up to the bay area. Somehow I know my life will unfold greatly up there in Berkeley. Down here, in San Diego (which should qualify as a big adventure too, since I came out here also with no plans and also by myself), things have been stagnant. This is a large reason why I'd like to have this blog. I need to take hold of the reins, figure out what I'm doing right and what wrong.

So, nevertheless, let me say now that "FUTURE WAVE" is not only my blog but my entire online web presence. I hope it to evolve into a webzine (all in good time, though) in which I will coordinate the countercultural emergence of a holistic vision of life (read: the paradigm shift away from industrial capitalism, rock&roll and pop, corporate branding, globalization without localization). What this holism will represent is part of the future wave that we may watch unfold. In any event, if you are interested in reading more about these ideas, check out my homepage. Please keep in mind that I am always wanting feedback, even if it contains negative criticism... so thus email me with your comments, especially if you're a stranger!

Finally, I hope to bring lots of new music to people (check out my music collection!!!). I will try and tell you what I have been listening to lately. This first blog entry was brought to you by: JESSAMINE (Another Fictionalized History). [[great space/drone rock with male/female vocals, much better than Bardo Pond but similar. from Portland, OR. They now are the group Fontanelle]]

posted by MM 7:55 PM