Once upon a time, in a previous life, I launched a blog here on Blogspot. It was called "A Deeper, Darker Ocean Green" and I used it to talk about just about anything I thought was mildly interesting. I had a lot of fun with it, and then it sort of fell apart, and then suddenly it ceased to exist.
That ceasing to exist was a very good thing.
The title came from one of my favorite videogames of all time, Alan Wake, and the poem that occurred at the start of it. When I started using the blog for more personal stuff, and posting my own writing, I didn't want it to seem like a fanblog for Alan Wake, even though that game is fantastic, so I switched the title to something that escapes my memory right now, but that was shortly before I deleted the whole thing for good.
Now I'm back. And so I needed a new name. Why did I pick The Temple that Rocked? Well, once again, because I lack any sort of creativity, I decided that necessitated a reference in the title. But this one is more obscure, so I feel more comfortable using it.
Basically, I looked at a song that I think embodies my life as a creative person, and took a line from it and twisted it. That line came from Five Iron Frenzy's Litmus, and goes like, "I heard your yelling above the crowd/standing in the back with the arrogant and proud/you say preach, they said rock/you put my God inside a box."
One of the many sins I committed at the end of my last blog's life (one of the reason's that necessitated its swift and easy execution!) was that I used it to preach, when I've always been more of a rocker.
Ooh, would you look at that. Easy transition to self-introduction.
Of course, not a "Rocker" rocker. To do that I would need to be able to sing or play an instrument or, in some way, not be a musical disappointment. (Musical Disappointment would have been another great name for this blog) Unfortunately, my skills do not include sweet rocker skills. I don't even have the hair for it.
What do I have?
Well, I'm glad you asked that, inquisitive other me! However, I'm still trying to figure that out. So why am I blogging if I don't even know what I have to add to the discourse that governs this world? Mostly because I can. Or... well, maybe I can't, but we'll find out together.
For those of you who were with me in my Deeper, Darker Days, consider this a reboot. For those of you who hated my Deeper, Darker Days, I'll try to be less sucky this time.
No promises!
Mostly, this is my chance to post what I think and pretend like that matters to the world at large. It'll be a glance into my life as an attempted creative person, and my attempt to bring rock to the temples and bring the temples into rock, because I don't think they ever should have broken up in the first place.
Add in a slice of cynical, interpret rock as fiction, and maybe anticipate an obsessive relationship with Greek and Roman Studies, and there you have my blog. (Watch: ten posts from now [if I get that far] I will have proved I had no idea what I was talking about when I said any of this. That's how I roll).
