Just wanted to let you folks know that I’m still alive and not yet vanished from this earth. I’m still trying to finish my studies (the master’s thesis in Philosophy is written already and one of the final tests is over, too). There are more to come though and even if everything goes well with the German Studies exams, especially those in linguistics, I’m not done before fall this year. Until then there will be no CFM activity, because I’m not yet sure if I will continue the blog in the way I did.
The most important decision I have to make is the following: Writing in English certainly has it’s advantages especially because you reach a wider audience. But as I’m also very fond of my native language, German, I’m considering to switch over to it. Not only does it take less time to write the articles and to proof-read them, it also gives me a larger range expressing my emotions and feelings. But I’m not yet sure about this point and I will let time decide what to do.
The other point, and on this I’m sure already, is the interval in which new articles will be posted. The daily thing surely is a great challange but finding new music, reading news of tons of blogs and posting stuff that isn’t a bare copy of the other blogs takes hours and hours of time. Sometimes I spent over 7h a day to find some good stuff, write up the reviews and read all the news I had available in my 300+ blogs in google reader. This was a great time, but as life will get in the way I don’t think this will be manegeable anymore in the future. So there will be new articles but they won’t show up at a daily routine.
I know, this post was long overdue, but I really wasn’t in the mood to write anything to anyone in the last time. I hope you’ll excuse me. This being said, I just can summon you to keep believing in independent artists and their music and to support them in every way you can. Keep the spirit of music (and folk especially) alive and don’t let the majors destroy true genius. I’ll be back – and I hope some of you will still be there, too.
Glad to hear it. German is fine – and there must be translation tools (Google translates pages well enough). All the best,
Good luck with school! Come back when you can.
sebastian, ich bin sehr froh etwas von dir zu lesen! für dein restliches studium wünsche ich dir viel erfolg und hoffe sehr, deinen blog im herbst wieder blühen zu sehen. in welcher form auch immer. auf deutsch zu schreiben ist keine schlechte idee… weniger schreiben, in einem anderen rhythmus schreiben, wird dir sicher auch gut tun. aber bis dahin, ist es ja noch ein wenig. solange du noch freude am schreiben findest, hoffe ich irgendwann wieder von dir zu lesen.
alles gute!
h.
Hey semmliger Seb,
schön zu lesen, dass deine Lethargie sich einem Ende neigt.
Meld dich doch mal bei mir wenn du Lust und Zeit hast! Bei last.fm warst ja auch nicht mehr seid November…
also evtl bis dann mal!?
J.
Well, we will waiting your return. I will wait it from here, from Brazil. I hope you reconsider about the language. Your English is excellent and I can’t understand German. ;-(
Hi, I’m looking for the email address for Mike Minchin. I read in one of you blogs about his album that his address was listed on the back of the cd. I went to school with him and would love to say hello. If you still have it , I would love to get it from you. Thanks, Jamie