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I did this meme earlier today on LiveJournal (yes, I know it’s nine in the morning, but I didn’t get any sleep) in which I was supposed to mix up my iTunes library and post the opening lines of forty tracks. This would, in turn, cause other LiveJournal users to guess the names of the tracks as well as the artists behind them. Unfortunately, I have over 2,000 tracks in my iTunes library–not all of them have lyrics, and not all of them are even songs. Thinking it’d be best to skip the Rolling Stones Podcasts and Yanni orchestral dubs, I managed to throw forty tracks into a playlist and write them out on LiveJournal. The post has only been on there for a few hours, and a good number of songs have been guessed by people.

I invited Darius to take a peek at the new blog layout and subsequentially asked for some feedback. He basically said that there needed to be more content in the blog entries in order for an adequate judgement to be made. I wasn’t asking for comments on the entires, just the layout. And what exactly am I supposed to write about that’ll give these entries depth? Computer flea markets, perhaps?

Speaking of which, Adrian was upset that I linked his name to Retro Viral on LiveJournal while writing an entry similar to “Letters” and felt he was deserving of his own standing link. I went back and edited the entry, this time linking Adrian to a historical account of a hurricane sharing his name on Wikipedia.

I’ve reached a point in my blogging life where I’m unsure what I want to do next. I don’t know if I want this blog, which is really the focal point of my online life (as shown through the Podcasts and a decline in MySpace usage), to fill in the roll of a full-time network, or if I want to continue writing on LiveJournal. Almost three years ago, LiveJournal is where I started writing, and though I’ve left it a few times to “find myself” elsewhere (Xanga and MySpace), I’ve always been drawn back to it, as a drifter is drawn back to his home. There are a few things I’m considering when it comes to writing here.

The most important difference being that this blog was never intended to be a focal point for my online presence. In a matter of a few months, and through extreme flexibility, it just adapted into one. My intention for writing here was to keep in touch with family and friends through an easy medium of which I knew the ropes, while still maintaining a personal and mature reach over on LiveJournal through an already established audience of two years. I also appreciate the idea that LiveJournal allows me the control of providing content to a selected audience in the way of protected entries. But as times goes on, I’m seeing a dwindling need for that wall, and more of a need to grow through open freedom.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m faced with the difficult decision of trying to figure out if it’s time to move on from one thing to another, or if this will just be a phase like it has been before, where I find myself writing on LiveJournal again. It’s a thought that’s exposed to the world, but entirely mine, as all of these writings are and have ever been. My style, audience, and need might change, but the possession is very much still the same.