Friday, August 19, 2005
who's bringing the cake?
Happy Birthday, Beautiful Pain!
It was this day, exactly one year ago, that I gave birth to Beautiful Pain. Ok, that sounded a little weird, but still, it's true. If it weren't for that hair-brained idea I brewed up that day waaay back then, I'd have no other way to distract myself from the things I really should be doing. That's not really true—I always find ways to distract myself.
Alas, I must admit that this blog (hell, I don't even like calling it a "blog" anymore; to me, it is simply my "music website") has been one of the most rewarding distractions I've created. It's right up there with writing screenplays in high school which led me to meeting the entire cast of Charmed and almost selling a script to the show, creating un-published fansites and then getting paid to build websites for people, and teaching myself to play the guitar so that I'm now in the midst of trying to figure out how the hell to record a "proper" demo.
However, Beautiful Pain has been rewarding in its own little way—through this website I have been exposed to my absolute favorite and most loved form of art and expression: music. And without YOU GUYS, there is a lot of music that I might not have ever been exposed to. So, thank you to each and every one of you who have in any way contributed to this website, be it giving me artists to look into or by simply visiting this site and giving me even more reasons to continue doing what this site was built for.
Ok, this post took an oddly sentimental turn, but I mean it. You're the best! :)
Now, I did have something planned for our birthday/anniversary, but I'm gonna be out of town until Sunday night (which is why I'm posting this at 1am) and I don't have everything sorted out yet, so you guys are gonna have to wait a little while. But until then, give a little "whoot", throw a streamer across the room, or have a random scoop of ice cream with some chocolate syrup and join in on the celebration. Here's to another year!
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