just a note that things are converging towards an early 2015 shut down date for my facebook presence, which i've been planning for quite a while. i'm making that call on monday morning; if i have to stand outside for four hours, it's ok because it will be nice out. if things work out, i will have time to migrate out of facebook when i get to the shift in my discography (i'm calling it the shift from period 2 to period 3) that happened at the beginning of 2003. it's a natural point to stop and review what i've done over the last year. i'm currently in september, 2002. as an aside, my movement through will likely speed up from 2003-2005 because i don't have the pile of unfinished tracks over this period that i had from 2001-2002. 2005-2011, however, has even more unfinished stuff that will require even more work. i mean, the 2001-2002 stuff was mostly written out in scores or in my head, it just had to get it finished. i'd guess that only about half of the 2005-2011 stuff is fully written; the rest of it exists in sort of vague descriptions. for example, i have a concept record tying ideas of simultaneous "crash" (oil crash, economic collapse, aliens crash landing...there's a narrative....) together that is penciled in for 2006 but only consists of a 9 minute opening noise collage and the first few minutes of a score...considering that this may be a double, that's almost a full construction required.

i've been putting migrating off this site off because it's a two week long project and i've been prioritizing getting as much as i can done before i come up against this possibility of losing my income source. if it doesn't work out, i don't want a website to be what i have to show for my last few months. but if i'm confident i have more time, it will become a priority to get off this.

facebook just isn't the right way to get this documented. basically, i actually like the timeline. that's what i'm using, here. but even the timeline is stupid - it cuts out posts when you're floating through. what's the point of that? my life history isn't something to be upvoted or downvoted.

so, i'm going to basically convert the timeline out of this hideous server side php thing to a hardcoded html file and put it up at my appspot site. i'm going to want to find a way to get an rss feed out of it, and dump it to the music site. i'm then going to delete all of the content here and stop posting.

in the mean time, i'm still updating. but that will stop soon one way or another.

i'm realizing i'm kind of giving into the google monopoly of the internet.

but, based on what i actually want, they're simply doing everything right...and these other sites just aren't...

i'm leaving the account open because it's still the best way to find concerts. otherwise, i don't really have any use for this anymore.

as far as public commentary is concerned, i'm using google+ to rant. if you're enjoying my ranting, that's where i'm doing it. part of it is that all these privacy concerns on facebook are rather counterproductive for me; i like the idea of twitter's hashtags, but i find the character limits make the site useless. i mean, it's the internet. the internet ought to be public. if you want privacy, i'd argue you should just not post on the internet. but, for me, because i'm constantly trying to draw attention to myself, it doesn't make sense to have things housed in this space. when i post a rant to google, it gets cross-listed to a video on youtube that the whole world can access. and that's what i actually want, not this friend-zone exclusive area.