Forward:
Well folks, i've returned from London where i saw Joanna Newsom, who was incredible i must say. Some people may have noticed i've been away for a long time, it was a slight technical issue, my computer didn't turn on one day.. i opened it up and played with it a bit (making it a much more complicated technical issue) and now it lies a shell of it's former glory.
i've borrowed a laptop for a little while and i hope i'll be able to get back to regular blogging.

Now for the main feature:
the time off i'd had over the past few months has given me a lot of time to think, eat and look for a real job. As it happens i've instead spent the time thinking too much, eating too much and convincing myself that perhaps i could dance around in a puppet suit professionally.
Most of all the past few months have thought me the hard lessons of "Being Indie with out a compuer!"

here are some indie things that are more complicated without a computer:

1) Getting Indie Music

Recently i came accross a band called loveninjas. They sound great and have about 12,000 listeners so they're in a good zone, if a band has lower than 2,000 listeners then it hasn't been properly vetted and while those listeners love the band in question, they are likely to be related to the members in some way. if the band has over 50,000 listeners a good indie music follower should by all right should have heard of them and already exclaimed how much better they were when they had 20,000 listeners.
another good thing about the 12,000 listeners mark is that it's usually quite easy to get the CD in some Indie record shop. as it happens with the band in question a large number of its listeners live in sweden (as do the band) and if there is one thing that is not easy to get without a computer it's indie bands from far away places.

2) Patronising Other Peoples Music Taste

I've recently discovered that people don't like being told how awful the music they like is. This doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me. I often see people with terrible taste in music as "unenlightened" or perhaps "sheltered" and it's up to someone (me) to help them break into good music, or at the very least understand what when they say a particular brand of chart-tripe is "good" what they mean is "pathetic loathsome shit".
convincing people face to face has provoked reactions that has lead me to conclude that giving people bad news like "Your favourite band is so incredibly terrible that i'm more likely to eat off my own foot then be able to listen to an entire song" is best done over the internet where you are to far away to invoke any physical violence.