21 august 2022
Stayed up late putting together a little page describing & reviewing that mixtape I keep talking about, along with some little tweaks to my tilde page, like adding short audio previews to tye listing of my albums on the music page. Since I've got this focus on musical content going, I think a good next step would be to recover some music-related blog articles from my defunct web site and add them to the tilde instead. I could start with the essay I wrote about the historical sources behind my album Lost Temple, and an essay I wrote about the Broadway musical Hair. Sometimes the the creative impulse leads me to creating my own original stuff and sometimes it compels me to archive things and share my love of existing art with other people. It can be hard to accept this as a form of creativity because it's not visible in the same way as creating a new album, but I think ultimately it's on that same continuum of endeavors.
Recently someone kindly reached out to me for permission to remake an AMV I made more than ten years ago, using better-quality sources. I was inspired by that, the unsung creativity of someone archiving and restoring someone else's creations which are themselves unsanctioned fan works that tend to get flagged for copyright violations on today's Internet. Maybe I'll have to write up something about that for the tilde too.