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#1: Hipster Detritus (pitas incarnation). I am relatively young, optimistic about my potential to contribute pop-music-related discourse to the internet and do not hesitate to both loudly proclaim and back up my opinions, however questionable. I consider Calexico's The Black Light one of my current favorite albums for some reason. Blog discontinued due to belated discovery of blogspot hosting, which makes posting ill-informed yet enthusiastic entries somewhat easier.

#2: Hipster Detritus (blogspot incarnation). I have grown guarded and embittered after years of pointless pop-music messageboard feuds and tend to take on a somewhat complaint-happy format peppered with the occasional corpse of a daily list idea. I decide to close down shop after realizing that about 50-75% of the site's traffic comes from people googling for anti-hipster hate sites.

#3: The Cool Out. Inexplicably-named (after a Clash dub) and dedicated, at least initially, to posting MP3s. Closed due to file hosting headaches, copyright concerns and the lingering feeling that running an MP3 blog made me look like a weird shill. Blog is, however, briefly glimpsed in a montage for an online MTV News report on MP3 blogs. During the course of this blog's brief existence, I experience a foreign but vaguely familiar feeling known as enthusiasm.

#4: Rebel Machine. Long-belated moment of practicality (incorporate own name into blog's URL) offset by stroke of WTF (name blog after extremely obscure performance package for an American Motors muscle car). posting is extremely sporadic due to increasing freelance workload, dearth of ideas an unwillingness to weigh in on whatever ridiculous thing has everyone else with a blog all upset. ("Is indie rock black enough"? Where do I even start?) Blog remains open, but mostly because it'd leave a few dead links if it wasn't.

#5: Nate Patrin @ Wordpress. New blog (titled, simply enough, after the author) created in the belief that a change of scenery will encourage posting more than once every other month. Also reachable through natepatrin.com, a somewhat redundant but surprisingly affordable gimmick.

posted by Nate P. @ 12:45 PM