The Conclusion - with a Twist

Accord­ing to the cal­en­dar, it’s been over 7 months since my last post here at Dryvet­yme Onlyne. To be hon­est with you, I’ve really enjoyed not writ­ing music reviews on what seemed to be a per­pet­ual basis. Have I missed writ­ing them? Absolutely. Do I feel like work­ing a full-​time job and attempt­ing to oper­ate a D-​List music blog on a nearly full-​time basis on my own at the same time? Not in the slightest.

Thus, it is with a strangely happy heart that I have decided to close the door and shut­ter the win­dows of Dryvet­yme Onlyne once and for all, but I do so while seek­ing out another aper­ture or two. It really boils down to this — since a 7-​month hia­tus is quite a long time in Inter­net “years,” I felt that mak­ing a return to this spe­cific web­site wouldn’t be very inter­est­ing or worth my time. Sure, I might have over 5 years of fan­tas­tic con­tent stored here, but if I were to attempt any sort of return to reg­u­lar writ­ing (whether it be music review, short sto­ries, or any­thing else), I wanted it to be new, fresh, and as free from stress as possible.

Thus, I’m going to start pen­ning record reviews again, but I will be post­ing them instead to my per­sonal Tum­blr site — aptly named Dryvet­yme Onlyne. Sim­ply put, the relaxed and whim­si­cal feel of that plat­form greatly suits my atti­tude about the music review these days, and along with my Twit­ter feed, it presents a pic­ture of my per­son­al­ity and world­view that is much more holis­tic in nature. I prob­a­bly won’t post 4 – 6 reviews a week like I did in the good ol’ days; I think 1 a week or so will prob­a­bly do the trick.

As usual, I also have sev­eral dif­fer­ent ideas for books brew­ing, and maybe I’ll finally work up the courage and momen­tum to pur­sue one of those ideas to its proper con­clu­sion. If I can suc­ceed with If This Park­ing Lot Could Speak, I should feel con­fi­dent enough to fin­ish another book or two in my life­time. Thus, I can’t chase down other lit­er­ary dreams if all I’m doing is writ­ing record reviews about what­ever hip buzzbands hap­pen to be occu­py­ing space in my inbox this week.

All in all, I’ve enjoyed my time oper­at­ing this site. I might have not become the next well-​known music critic, but I’ve met some great peo­ple and lis­tened to some fan­tas­tic records. In the long run, that’s what I enjoy most about music as an art form — it has this curi­ous abil­ity to pro­vide both the back­ing sound­track and the dri­ving impe­tus for an amaz­ing time with your friends and family.

Thanks to every­one who has ever read a review, left a com­ment, or given me any sort of encour­age­ment about Dryvet­yme Onlyne. If you do hap­pen to visit this site and are inter­ested in sub­mit­ting music for a poten­tial review, please visit me at the “other” Dryvet­yme Onlyne or fol­low me on Twit­ter — I’m much more inter­est­ing there.

Peace.