Greetings all, thanks for stopping by, as usual. I hope, as you are reading this, you are well. In the spirit of this week of Blaugust, I’ll introduce myself to those who have never read this blog. In short, I started this blog, vibesnscribes, back in 2007, as a means to blog about favorite artist tracks I’m currently listening to AND just to write about what’s on my mind currently. The former reason quickly came to be tedious as my initial idea was to provide reviews of songs, complete with artist history, studio credits/liner notes, etc. That burden made me choose another direction which let to my foray into podcasting. Out of that was born “The Sunday Soundtrack” a podcast that was an alternative to the various smooth jazz genre wave of tracks popular across the airwaves in the last 2000s. The Sunday Soundtrack featured lesser known tracks from the genres of chill out, downtempo and (smooth) electronica) – shoutout to AMic for the nice podcast logo design. It was a weekly podcast usually posted on Sunday evening in line with those needing to relax as they prepared for the following week. I did that for quite a few years and really enjoyed it Oftentimes, I’ve considered resurrecting it but I need to find the time to do so. There’s a subpage in my page menu that talks about the podcast more and provides links to the podcast episodes I’ve released. You can find another sub page here named Tech Times, a mobile podcast showcasing 5 – 8 minute episodes regarding me waxing philosophically (if you will) about current consumer technology in our daily lives. There are two interviews among them as well
As for who I am, the About Me page of this blog summarizes me well enough that I won’t repeat it here. I still enjoy blogging because it essentially represents the indieweb aspect of what Blaugust is about. It’s my “digital garden” and I control how it grows and is tended to, untouched by the “algorithm”. While I used to blog incessantly at one time, I now do it enough to keep it enjoyable, without any specific topic theme (as you can see by my topic cloud hashtags). The blogroll lists blogs that describe my general interests. Most time, when I’m blogging, I’m usually listening to tracks from SomaFM streaming artists from the Fluid, Groove Salad, Deep Space One, DefCon, or Beat Blender channels.
All that being said, what is Blaugust? Here is a blog post that I think sums it up succinctly AND has an updated feed of bloggers participating this year. I’m looking forward to exploring these participant blogs (once I find a good RSS reader for macOS and my iPad.
That’s it for now. Take care, protect your mental.
Oceans of rhythm…
Fresh
