The road goes on forever and the party… changes form.
“Party is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes form. Now who’s doin’ shots?”
-Sir Isaac Newton (probably)
Alright. It’s been a minute. A few even, since I last posted.
I’ve changed jobs a few times, moved, got a new, steady job. All the while, this project has been in the back of my mind, reaching out to me and crying for attention.
There’s a piece of my soul that craves music and for a long time I’ve kept it locked away, saying “it’s not time for you to eat yet.”
So while I decide if I want to record sessions again someday (I mean I want to, but the work is a lot for one guy), I am letting that little sliver of consciousness have snacks, and I’m doing so intentionally.
I am sharing a lot of what I’m listening to on socials, but I am also publicly keeping a log of music I hear and building a database of music I own physical copies of. You can find that below:
So yeah. We’re living in Charleston. The city where I was born, where I thought I’d never return.
And we’re settling in. Riding bikes, eating seafood, going to the beach .🤮
And it’s not so bad after all.
I lived in Greenville for the better part of 20 years… my entire adult life. It shaped me as I watched the city grow.
Doing The Hoodoo Music Podcast and Static Attic gave me a view of the robust music scene that hides under the surface in a place where authenticity can easily be subsumed by aesthetics. Not to speak ill of Greenville, I love the place. It’s not entirely a superficial bourgeois hellscape, it’s also a welcoming waypoint in between less friendly cities (you know which ones), and a gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Most of my best friends are there!
But creating media to showcase the deeper music scene beyond cover bands at bars made me feel at the time like part of something bigger, and its absence has left a crater in my life.
So maybe I’ll fill that crater again. Until whenever whatever, I will continue letting my spirit sample from all the dishes at the party.
What are you listening to this week?
-Mark
