I need to update.
Sorry. I’m busy. I wrote a play. Now I’m in said play and rehearsing. Also, I’ve gotten a promotion at work. I, basically, have one free night a week, and this week it got taken up by things. My free night is Wednesday, in case you’re curious. Regardless, I still love you, dear readers, and I’ll resume posting random links to movie trailers and talking about TV shows by mid-February.
Well, the Omega Wolf show is over. Thanks for coming if you came, and go fuck yourself if you didn’t.
One of the sketches I wrote was called “Disco Day”, and as per the theme of tragedies throughout history as seen from an office window, “Disco Day” centered around D-Day, the storming of Normandy during World War II. The central characters were anachronistic Germans, more akin to 90’s Eurotrash than the Nazis they perhaps should have been. They are working in an office of unimportant purpose overlooking the beach at Normandy where the Allied forces began their invasion. The primary motivation for the characters is to make it to the disco for “teknomuzikdiscodansing”. They lament that the Autobahn does not reach Normandy so they can make it to the top disco in Berlin, the Triple Reich (a joke that was apparently lost on the audience, but what I considered to be a brilliant combination of a landmark Minneapolis club, the Triple Rock, and the Nazi regime’s Third Reich, but I wrote the joke, so…). They look out the window to select the best spot on the beach to tan, when they notice what they perceive to be an art film being made on the beach. When one of the characters is shot, they realize that it is an invasion against “teknomuzikdiscodansing”.
Afterwards, Dano asked me if I named this blog after the sketch. In truth I hadn’t, but it fits.
So why’d I call it “This is how I War/This is how I Disco”?
That was going to be the name of my first EP.
Seriously. I wanted to record some sort of dance record and call it “This is how I War/This is how I Disco”. But when I realized that I had very little hope of actually doing this, I decided it would make a good name for a blog. Mostly I thought it sounded cool. And I continue to think this.
To me, “war” is how we go about our lives, doing the things we need to, and “disco” is how we enjoy ourselves. There are everyday struggles–work, relationships, money– that we have to get through. And in a lot of ways, it is a never ending battle. But we all enjoy ourselves, too. This is a dichotomy we’ve all experienced, between what we have to do, and what we like to do, and how both drive the other. So when I say “This is how I War/This is how I Disco”, I’m saying this is how I live life.
And I love dance music. So I say “Disco” to mean “enjoy myself”.
Also, I changed themes, because there were a few things that bothered me about that last one. If you had a chance to see it…I was about to say “consider yourself lucky”, but I didn’t really like it, so I’ll just say “I’m sorry”. Anyway, I like this one better, even if the dates are really weird.
I completely did not address why I moved. Seems somewhat important.
If you’re me.
But since I’m the kind of self-indulgent prick who writes a damn blog, and you’re the kind of voyeuristic pseudo-stalker who reads my blog, I guess that makes it kind of important to you, too. Hm?
I thought so.
I’ve kind of wanted to move over to WordPress for a while, long before I stopped blogging, but since my thing was kind of established (among both of you reading this, of course), I didn’t want to change URLs, because that’s annoying. I liked blogger, I could work with it just fine, and it was fine, whatever. So I stayed there.
But then came the ol’ hiatus, as described below, so as I was thinking of blogging again, I decided to just start afresh. I’m not going to take down any of the old stuff, so if there’s something you really want to re-read (poop), it’s still there. But I’m here now. So get used to it.
In terms of the, like, day that I’ve been working with WordPress, there are a lot of things I like, some things I liked better with Blogger. But I’m overall satisfied. The #1 thing I like is the Pages feature, wherein you can have shit you put up that isn’t exactly blog-like, but it makes it more general. But WordPress isn’t quite as customizable as Blogger, in terms of the template. But it works for me. For now.
One day, I’ll buy a damn domain and be able to do whatever the fuck I want.
