New blog

I'm redo-ing this blog as my own, since apparently that gets you a job these days? So here goes:

When I was five my grandfather on my father's side gave me the nickname "Jukebox", because I was always singing, dancing or watching MTV.
When I was in 7th grade one of my best friends and I made a list of bands to pass around to all the boys we thought were even worth talking to. The list had three options:
like them
hate them
don't know.
At this point in my life I understand how absurd that kind of rating system for the opposite sex is, but in my defense I was 12.
When I was 14 all I wanted was to someday be a part of a band. My parents told me "You'd better have a back up plan." Devastated I thought "Well if I can't be in a band, I'm good at writing and I like photography... I'll be a rock journalist." I soon found that not only do most musicians generally hate journalists, but the way journalism works anymore is something that really makes no sense to me.
When I was 20, my best friend of the time looked at me and said "You're Rob Gordon (the protagonist of High Fidelity)." It went beyond his obsession with music, but it definitely was a part of it.
To use a word I really like that was used in a rather unflattering way about one of my "mentors" (since I don't believe in heroes and don't know the "mentor" personally), I think blogs are for those who bloviate, or that think their opinions are the key to existence. Blogs to me aren't news, but strictly opinion with generally little fact. Occasionally they have good information, and sometimes are fact checked, but for the most part they seem to be soapboxes for egomaniacs. However, if writing a blog with my opinion and knowledge of music get me any closer to having long drawn out conversations with my "mentors" over coffee, tea, or otherwise, I'll do what it takes and hopefully it will. So let's get started.