8/20/97 - Ecstasies of Raw Cookie Dough.

     I forgot to mention in an appropriate
     place, yesterday's .plan, that I'm very
     impressed with Maggy's recent designs.
     I don't say that often.  So savor it
     before I get all bitter and envious. ;)

     To sort of attempt to renew hope in
     the state of personal sites, I went
     looking at some places I've never seen
     before, compliments of a list off
     the site of someone who wrote me.

     I expect a lot out of a site -- that is
     obvious.  I like original design, stuff
     that obviously wasn't a one-step Glow
     filter in Photoshop.  You know,
     multi-layered, opacitied digital art,
     stuff that people spend a lot of time
     making, only to dump it in a month or
     so.  I also want good writing, but
     blah blah we know about that, painfully
     so.

     I didn't really find anything worth
     bookmarking except for a site or two,
     also running into a site I had
     bookmarked a couple days earlier.
     Except for the last, none of them
     were brilliant sites.  A neat graphic
     made me want to check on it again to
     learn the technique.  The last site,
     though, was brilliant.  Simple, yet
     youthfully cunning.  And you know
     what the depressing thing was for all
     you oldbies reading this?  It was made
     by someone just a year younger than
     me. ;)

     What is it with listing the current
     CDs one is listening to on a personal
     site?  And why do they always include
     No Doubt and the Wallflowers? (I can
     hear that fucking "I'm Just a Girl"
     tune in my head all day!)

     A lot of people have a little portion
     on the daily mindspew for telling
     the world what they're listening to.
     I'm not sure I understand exactly
     why these creatures do it.

     Don't get me wrong.  I think it's a
     cool thing to have, to get a sense
     of someone's exposure to music, what
     mood they're in, and all that good
     stuff...seeing if someone's primarily
     into mainstream or if he has the time
     and/or inclination to experiment a
     bit.  My tastes tend to be in the
     middle -- a bit more on the mainstream
     side, but only because I don't have
     the money or motivation to buy some
     really trashy CDs in order to maybe
     find the rare good ones.

     I think a lot of personal site authors
     really believe they're the shit (myself
     included).  They think their tastes
     are hip and young and eclectic and,
     well, cool (c).  We're all so cocky
     and arrogant, yet at the same time,
     slightly (but deeply) insecure.  A
     strange breed of humans.

     I won't pass any judgment on music
     tastes or anything I've talked about
     above.  Hey, whatever gets you going
     is fine with me.

     One more thing -- be sure to get in
     your dose of The Critic or The Daily
     Show before the week is over.  That's
     Comedy Central, folks.  Folks?  Pay
     attention!

     
      * For kicks, the song of the day: *
      * "Kick the P.A." by Korn and the *
      * Dust Brothers.                  *

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