This week’s newsletter has thoughts on stepping back from social media and revitalizing my personal blog. There’s also some commentary on music I’ve been enjoying recently and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (February 9th, 2025)”This week’s wall picks. Going with a black and white theme and two recent additions to the collection.
Most listened to last week.
That Underoath album is under embargo until next Friday, so the plan will be to write more about it in next week’s newsletter. I hope to write a longer newsletter this weekend after some errands and a friend’s birthday get together.
Finally framed this signed New Found Glory drumhead. Now I just need to find some office wall space for it.
Favorite thing I heard today was the new Matt Nathanson album. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb…
Finally. This is a holy grail addition to the collection for me, an album I’ve wanted and been chasing for years.
Having this in my hands has made my entire week. One of my favorite albums of the last decade, easily one of my most played, and a modern classic.
As part of my desire to start blogging (in all forms) more, I’ve connected this blog to my forum account so that posts here will be posted as status updates there as well. If all goes well, this will be the first to sync! Just another way people can follow along as I try and move away from social media and focus more on my little place on the internet.
On a Set Your Goals kick today. ‘Mutiny’ holds up so well. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb…
I basically cloned an Instagram-lite feature for my blog so I guess I might as well add a micro blog here too.
January: the month that refused to end.
It was cold.
Most days had multiple absurd news push notifications, because, well, you know.
But we’re still here.
I’m trying to spend this year not falling back into bad habits of doom scrolling and feeling like I need go know everything all the time. I’m letting myself pick and choose, and trying instead to focus on what I can control. Getting back into a daily workout routine, spending time with family and friends, listening to music, enjoying coffee and a good beer.
January 2025
I have a handful of domain names I’ve stored up over the years for various projects. Some are in use, quite a few are not. When Chorus first launched I bought the short domain: chr.us for sharing short urls on Twitter to our content.
Since then Bit.ly (who was powering the short urls) has started charging a whole lot more for their service. And Twitter has put limits on how many posts can be automatically posted to their platform in a given month. Given that all the other social sites we post to don’t have as strict of limits on characters in posts, the idea of short urls doesn’t really make sense these days.
So, I am repurposing the domain name to re-direct specifically to my blog. I want to start using the “blog” portion of my website more. The goal will be to post things that don’t make sense on the homepage, and to move some of my other social media posting to one place that I control. I want to start bringing my monthly photo posts from Instagram here. I want to post more about my vinyl collection. I want to share random updates more.
And having a quick short URL to direct to the blog makes sense.
My blog: chr.us
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We’re still slowly moving into the start of 2025 and there’s not a whole bunch of new music coming out yet, so this may be another relatively short one. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 26th, 2025)”
Quick one this week, but some early thoughts on the new Coheed and Cambria record and surprise release from The Maine. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 18th, 2025)”
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2025.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 11th, 2025)”
