Robot Cousin Soundworks

Geocities is closing (possibly old news to some). And I had just mentioned good ol’ GC in one of my recent posts… weird. A place I don’t think about forever, and when I do, something newsworthy about it is brought to my attention.

Anyone reading this remember Geocities? If you were on the web around 1997, you probably saw quite a number of fan pages written in basic HTML with tiled or neon backgrounds and over/under-sized, hard-to-read text, discussing all manner of anything.

Web 2.0 more-or-less put the final stake into the heart of sites and services like Geocities. I mean, although you’re currently at www.robotcousin.com, I could just as easily be posting this at robotcousin.wordpress.com (doesn’t exist). The old “put your html and animated gifs here!” sites of yesteryear have gone (or are going), and now are the blogspots, the wordpresses, the Facebook fan pages.

I think, just for fun, next time I’m updating this site, I’ll tile “underconstruction.gif” in the background.

RIP Geocities. You served many a fan-fiction-author well.

Dec 15th 1995 – October 29 2009

I find this site strangely comforting. A place where I can just type whatever, say whatever, not caring about what I’m saying or what people think of it. I know that’s very “Geocities 1997″ of me, but it’s true.

More music on its way, although not in this post. I want to sing, but I don’t have a lot of confidence in my voice, nor do I really have anything to sing about. However, upon closer reflection, I realize that both of those problems are solvable. Don’t expect to hear me crooning about how quiet it is in St Margarets anytime soon, but I’ve got something.

As for other projects, I’m almost finished working on something really magical with my friend Curtis (of the Curtis and Tara show) that I can’t wait to share with the 3 people that read this. Should be available quite soon.

Might end up working two jobs in the next little while. It’ll kill my available time, but with the extra money, it’ll lessen quite a bit of stress caused by the lack thereof.