I've spent a great deal of time and energy over the years working at keeping a neutral persona, but unfortunately, this doesn't allow people to know me very well, and this blog is designed to share more of my feelings on music and personally-relevant commentary. Member Journals is an appropriate locale to set up a soapbox, so for those who are listening, I present Crosswalking: "A time consuming project which I am likely too concise and too lazy to make worth anybody's while" or simply "A pedestrian's perspective".

The breakdown is below.


Midway through 2010, I decided to pull up the Wikipedia article of albums released within the year, and slowly make my way down that list, keeping track of the year's releases. Recently is a section designed to keep up with the new releases of the year, and a brief summary of my feelings about them.

Realistically, I'm not going to be able to cover absolutely everything released in the coming year before it's 2012, so this blog will concern itself with new releases that I have taken an interest in, and specifically, my first response to them. Suggestions for albums to cover are welcome.

Albums will be rated on a simple three-point scale:

Good. A worthwhile listen. Receives my seal of recommendation.


Evokes neither positive nor deeply negative response.


This is not for me. Possibly not for anyone else either.


Retrospect will be a section dedicated to non-new releases; any albums from past years that I feel strongly about, wish to re-evaluate, or generally have plenty to say on the topic of.



In which I rank items according to how much I like them (or otherwise).



Scathing track-by-track reviews of the skidmarks buried in my lastFM library.


And Freetalk is for any other unrelated crap I feel like speaking my mind about.

Expect some actual content soon!