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.
