Introducing, for the first time

A lovely friend of mine exclaimed that the excitement she heard in my voice, as I described the awesome of some gig or another a few months ago, that I should really have a blog. And as the rain tumbles down on my new city, instead of me just putting on and attempting to mix some turn of the century “progressive house” records (as I usually do, as rainy days are the only days appropriate for such records), I figured I should actually start one up. So today, I get to tweak settings, ponder directions, alter fonts and layouts, and see moods shift with different colour schemes.

Before I tell you about myself, I want to pop down a bit about why I want to record my experience in this way – my manifesto for this blog, and a slight map for its direction. It will be about popular culture and my experience with it. Probably, mostly, it will be music related. Kind of ‘indie’, ‘underground’, ‘art-wank’ style music. Not exclusively, mind you – I’m sure I actually have more than enough posts bubbling inside me about the trials, tribulations and occasional triumphs of boy bands and pop princesses, but I think it will be another rainy day before I post up an article entitled “Skanky Tart Comes Good”. I don’t want this to be a repository for the latest leaks and retrospective mp3’s – I find blogs that do that far too often get their taste melded to that of their blogs – my taste is far wider than this blog will ever be, and similarly, I am precious about it, and won’t risk it for the sake of cyber-music-hawks. So if you read here, and want to find a song I’m talking about, its up to you to google, torrent or whatever it is you scavengers do.

Who am I then, to be putting down all these rules?

Whilst this isn’t livejournal, I think a personal introduction will help. My name is Darcy, I live in what the rap boys call “Syn City”, others “the inner-west”. I have been in love with music since I was about 14 years old, though I remember music from when I was little, and so have a massive love for dodgy eighties pop. My favourite bands have changed throughout my life, but The Beatles, Oasis, Blur, Elastica, Pulp, Supergrass, Dead Kennedys, Coldcut, Princess Superstar, Sleater-Kinney, a week where Tegan & Sara were totally it for me, The New Pornographers, Black Mountain and this week I’m really liking Low. My 15 year-old self would be completely embarrassed by the amount of ‘rap’ and ‘techno’ I listen to as a 25 year-old, but know this – hip-hop and electronica are equals, and superiors in some respects, to guitar-based music, and this attitude means I get to have a great deal of fun at a great deal of shows.

So intro-post out of the way, now I can see how this looks! Any questions, just leave them in the comments, but actual content will come along when I have the place looking nice for visitors.

xDarcyx