First off, I want to thank everyone for their apparently infinite patience as I try to debug the site since it went live just under a week ago. I appreciate everyone’s understanding and the helpful hands I’ve been getting from all across the globe.
You are the real heroes here.
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As I described in my last post for this series, Towards the Within, I have decided to do a bit of discovery when it comes to music and report back what I found on that adventure. Briefly: I seeded a “radio station” on YouTube Music with several darkwave and experimental folk bands, set it at high discovery and high artist variety. I tried to give preference in my “seed” to non-English-speaking artists to drive the algorithm in that direction. And then, I set off a darkened path and into the labyrinthine woods I had just created.
Did I find something interesting in the deep woods? Or did the monsters eat me?
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burning inside and writhing
with their words spoken
during long ghost nights
carried in smoke on the wind
hey hey sang they hey hey
medicine for the longing within
passing white sage silver
on the circle all around
the pounding of our hearts
the bellows of our winds and
the burning inside and
the burning within
masks we ride rivers wide
banks staring blank, empty
ancestors begging forgiveness --
what have we done?
slipping night waters
at the edge of blood tides
moon mother moon
what have we done?
careless, that whispered jetty
rock dark, broken shore
still that heart's beating
what have we done?
we ever we
on edge turning
forest child lost
her hands her
finger slips
over leaves
over wood
we ever we
can be can be
innocent songs
again—
she cuts she
shadows on wind
shadows on song
of
we ever we
The site is going through some growing pains that I am attempting to troubleshoot. My current issue is with comment moderation.
Only first-time comments should be held for moderation. However, all comments are currently being sent for moderation. Clearly, this feature is not acting as expected. I am looking into solutions, including considering something other than Akismet (should that be the root cause) or Jetpack for comments — undesirable choices either way. While overly aggressive at times, Akismet works reasonably well. Similarly, Jetpack for comments has to positive feature that you can use the app for comment notifications if you have a WordPress.com account. Otherwise, readers will have to subscribe to “all comments” via RSS feeds or stop by for responses.
(more…)One of many plans I have with migrating from my previous site to this new site, one was to begin a musical odyssey of sorts that I would call Towards the Within. The focus of this series is introduce myself to entirely new musical experiences. I hope to encounter new sounds and bands during my experiment. As I do so, I will share the more interesting discoveries with you in a series of posts.
I deciding that I wanted to avoid having too heavy of a hand in determining the direction of my musical exploration. Instead, I would only determine the trailhead at which I would enter a new wilderness. After which, I would let the algorithms of the internet guide me. Part of those initial guardrails would be set based on my mood of the month.
This month, my mood happens to be international music mixed with non-english darkwave. I added a dash of some traditional influences as well to drive the music in a folksy direction. YouTube’s has a “Create a Radio Station” feature where you can set up some basic parameters, then seed it with an artist list. Doing just that, I set the radio to high artist variety with a high discovery ratio.
And now I’ll wait to see what there is to see as I wander into the wilds…
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cattail & cagey
our home along
lily & rush
waiting at water
wind-lapped & sun
to drone summerlong
waiting on
a hunger gnawing
a hunger clawing
on the edge of day
For a while I have been feeling my writing has started to stagnate at the other site the I have been doing the bulk of my writing these past five years, sceadugenga.com. During those years, I’d been a fairly prolific writer on sceadugenga on a day-to-day basis: posting anywhere from one to ten posts nearly every day since 2020, and quite a few days through 2019 on top of that.
Prior to 2019, I’ve been writing a number of different blogs since around 2001 — using everything from static HTML pages to Blogger. Largely I’ve been writing on WordPress.com or a self-hosted site based on their software since 2005.
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