Rock On

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).