Why am I doing this?

My most coveted of potential rewards from rock stardom was never the girls. It was always the power to pontificate about music and have it be considered, nay accepted, by all of my fans. Like when The Minutemen told me to listen to Blue Öyster Cult, and I did, or when Teenage Fanclub introduced me to Gene Clark and we clicked. So with my dreams of rock stardom behind me, I step into the blogosphere with much lower expectations of followship, but at least with the platform to pontificate.

I often burden my friends with my musical musings. Many of them tell me I should rock critic, because I talk about it so much. To this I always say that I hate most rock criticism. It always sounds so self conscious or self righteous, that I can't bear to read it. Music is an extremely personal experience, so people criticizing it always find themselves on a slippery slope. I believe there are no absolutes in music. Only personal preference. So, for eveything I write on this site, the phrase "In my opinion" must be assumed. I will try not to be self conscious or self righteous and keep it all on a personal level, so that I am telling people not that I am right, but that this is how I feel.