A Typewriter and a Violin?

Hello friends. You might remember me from my previous blog (TO:Bilbao). Or maybe not. I think I had a total of 7 people read that, and I might have less this time around. But my goal here is not to boost my readership numbers, so I'm not worried about it. I'm not entirely sure what my goal is, actually, but here I am anyway.

First off, let me offer an explanation. The name for this blog is based on a lyric from The Felice's Brothers song "Love Me Tenderly." The song has the sound of some loony drunk banging on the piano at a saloon back in the wild wild west. There are glasses clanging and people talking in the background, and he sings a line about "a bottle of gin, a typewriter and a violin, wouldn't you like that?" Yes, yes I would very much like that. Here you will find a link to the song, in case you were curious:

Love Me Tenderly

Furthermore, two of my biggest interests are books and music, so it just seemed to work out pretty well. I've always wanted a typewriter so I could rattle off a bunch of nonsense but feel sophisticated and old school while doing it. But alas, here I am at a computer and on a blog. Oh the irony.

As for what will be the content of this blog, it is a fluid concept. I have a few ideas, but we'll see how it all turns out. I see it mainly as a place to rope in my thoughts and try to put them down in one coherent piece. I've enjoyed writing more and more over these last few years, but as LWRS faded into a memory (more on that in a later post), I found myself lacking a forum to write. Pretty much whatever I want the three or four people who will likely read this blog to check out, I will post it here.

I leave you now with a quote:

"There are those who are writers, and there are those who simply want to express themselves." -a guy named John (I think) who wore white tennis shoes, khaki pants, a blue blazer, and spoke this to my friends and I a couple of years back at an event for a college class.

Which one am I? Almost certainly the latter, but I'm attempting to increase the frequency with which I am the former.