JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Quotes: from Fun for a girl or boy

Blogs are the Slinky of the internet…[snip] Seems everyone will have one eventually but as yet, few figured out how to put them to good use. I’m not sure I can change that with SHLOG. I’m only doing this blog thing because friends/expert bloggers bugged me to for so long that I gave in and promised to try it for a month or so. If I never take it out of the box and find something useful or fun to do with it I’ll trade it in for a new toy like.. I don’t know…my own podcast.

Ooh a podcast! He also says he will post lyrics of new songs on his blog.

I also liked Flannel Versus Spandex, Shaun’s insider opinion on the “Christian” music industry and the music industry in general:

Instead, much (but not all) of what sells today is largely over-tuned, dumbed-down, metaphor-lacking, fifth-grade-reading-level Sunday school lessons preaching “God loves you and that’s all you’ll ever need to know”. But that’s just one guy’s opinion. I could be wrong right?. I’m hardly objective.

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But the idealist in me would like to think Nirvana would have still written and dressed and thought and rocked the way they did even if the leotard remained more popular than the flannel shirt. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the love of fame and fortune would have driven Kurt Cobain to tease his hair and sing falsetto to get on MTV. Or maybe Cobain and Vedder would have traded amps and lights for “would you like fries with that” and given up the rock n’ roll ghost.

Welcome everyone!