John Cade

I skipped New Music Monday again, but who cares when you have RAINBOW DIVIDERS!

This screen shot says it all.  Here’s the link to the listing on walmart.com.

I have no interest in this product, but I’m sure someone out there does. 

Yes folks, you have read my headline correctly - today’s New Music Monday feature introduces you to Enjoy the Zoo, one of the newest and most fun bands in Nashville.  A friend of mine informed me about ETZ several months ago, but I never took the time to give them a listen.  However, this Saturday I was browsing through the music listings in All the Rage and came across their listing for at show a 12th and Porter that night.  Like any responsible local music fan would do, I quickly pointed my browser to their myspace page.

If you don’t like their music, you can at least appreciate their brilliant, bright-colored marketing scheme. They use this same scheme when dressing for their shows, which is a fun way to keep the crowd engaged visually.  However, it’s not as if they rely on this gimmick to keep your attention - they have the charisma any signed band should, and they can only get better. In the words of one of their fans, “Once the songs are as good as their charisma, they will have IT.”  IT is not something you come across on a daily basis.  With a few tweaks, they clearly have a shot at taking it to the next level.

Below you can listen to my favorite hip-pop-flavored tune of theirs, appropriately titled “Teenage Girl Killer”.

I decided to remove (or move, actually) the portfolio page that you have seen in this very spot over the last month. There are a few reasons for this decision, but the most important one is that I’d much rather you be bored by my meaningless rants than by coming to my page over, and over, and over again (thanks, 3 visitors) to see the same content repeatedly. New content = a good marketing a strategy. I’m here to market myself, and therefore I need to be updating my site as much as possible.

I make this sound a lot more serious than it actually is. It isn’t at all.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about blogging lately and what a good blog entails. The majority of people write informally to their friends and family on their blogs. This is the purpose for which I created this blog, with a little inspiration from a couple of friends. In addition to giving the world personal updates, I would like provide everyone who visits with something of value. I was on to something when I started publishing New Music Monday, which I vow to start again next week.

There’s a tough balance to manage here: knowing that my audience is primarily friends and family, and wanting to provide content that lets me reach an audience beyond that. I’m not sure what I mean right now, but I know this much: things will change. I apologize in advance if at times I try to sound “too professional” or if I start using web designer lingo that is greek to most of you. However, I want my web presence to be bigger than it currently is. I’m going to need more types of content, more valuable content, and most importantly, more frequently updated content.

Amidst all of this new content that I hope to publish, maybe I can find time to redesign this site. But don’t count on it.

Let this post be a disclaimer for when things get weird around here. I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure hope somebody out there cares!