There hasn’t been much content on the blog for a number of weeks. And not much more than a weekly post on the blog’s Facebook page. Aside from the fact that I’ve spent a chunk of February doing real life stuff like traversing Aotearoa’s beautiful south and simply haven’t had the time or desire to post anything new, I’ve been labouring for a while now with the notion that everythingsgonegreen may have long since reached its use-by date.
But as I said to a friend recently, as soon as you decide you want to get rid of something, you’ll almost certainly find a use for it. Life can be a bit contrary like that, so at this stage I’ll stop short of “retiring” the blog and just carry on in case I decide I need an outlet for sharing more random thoughts on music, pop culture, and er, life itself.
In fact, February 2021 saw everythingsgonegreen celebrate its tenth birthday. Which is perhaps another reason why I’ve been contemplating its ongoing relevance (or otherwise). The world has changed an awful lot over that period, and the online world is no exception. Blogging - and content like an album review, for example - is really quite old school these days, with one man’s opinion (on anything) being little more than a superfluous indulgence. I used to feel compelled to document my thoughts on just about anything and everything, but in recent times that need has more or less deserted me.
Over the course of the decade there have been 710 posts, mostly mine, but also including a few dozen “guest posts”, the vast majority of which have been contributed by my good friend, Craig “Porky” Stephen. There have been nearly 500,000 individual page hits, with the “most read” post about 1980s nightlife in smalltown New Zealand closing in on nearly 15,000 of those page hits (go figure!). Those stats are pretty ordinary in the wider scheme of bloggy things, but as I’ve said before, everythingsgonegreen is primarily written by me, for me, and if anyone else can dig it, that’s great too.
As it stands, I’m still hanging on to the fanciful notion that I’ll one day be able to record my thoughts on every album in my entire collection (most of them under the Classic Albums guise), but that feels like something of a forlorn task for now. Craig has just sent me a couple of additional guest posts to publish, I’ve got a handful of half-completed posts, and a few ideas for future posts - including a few list-type posts, and some thoughts on a few of my more recent 2020 and 2021 album purchases.
So anyway, beyond that, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see whether or not I can summon the inspiration and/or find the time to keep things updated moving forward … right now, your guess is as good as mine. More than anything else though, to get to my rather laboured point, dear reader, thanks for reading, you’re awesome.
