June 11th, 2011 §
Yep, between June 12th and 27th I am away on holiday so if you email, leave comments etcetera expect to wait a while for a response. Especially because I’m straight back to work when I return and will be jetlagged, overworked and stressed to uberfuckery for at least a few days.
However I’ve also racked up a bunch of reviews for the entire time I’ll be away and then some so don’t worry, there’ll still be a thrice-weekly dose of my wittering on about music and records appearing here on NFI.
Take it easy!
April 25th, 2011 §
Chock full of additives and artificial flavourings: Nostalgia For Infinity!
I’ve started posting the occasional piece on Saturdays in addition to the usual Tuesday/Thursday review schedule and Sunday link round-up. I’ve got a buffer of two months of reviews now and have decided to step up my posting schedule.
There are a few reasons for this, the first of which is that there are some records I’ve been wanting to write about but have been sitting on for a while, the second of which is that I’m being sent more material for review these days, and the third is that I’m considering posting more opinion-style pieces about this and that (e.g. the I Live Sweat highlight I did a few weeks ago).
With that said I’m pretty busy these days between the day job, writing reviews for NFI, writing for and running Arcadian Rhythms and playing in Wrecktheplacefantastic, so please forgive me if I miss a Saturday or two. Those Tuesday and Thursday reviews are going to keep on coming the foreseeable future, though, you can be sure of that.
And yes, in case anyone wasn’t aware, it is just me who writes for NFI. A one-man band if you will. Oh, and I still write about books and film occasionally, just less often these days…
As always, readers: thanks for reading!
October 14th, 2010 §
I didn’t know people reviewed blogs, but apparently they do! A reader has reviewed me on Scribnia:
Shaun Green manages to put literature, gaming, punk Rock all together to somehow turn this into a blog. It hosts or points at his fiction, book, music, game, film reviews, info about his musical projects, and other general bloggery. Honestly when i saw the name Nostalgia For Infinity, I thought what a terrible name. I still dont know what im reading about, Shaun Green either has something orignal and unique or completely horrible. I find his book reviews to be much more interesting than reading about his music reviews, but still nothing amazing..
“Still nothing amazing” smells like a tagline to me!
For what it’s worth, I’ve considered splitting the different strands of content into separate blogs in the past, but others persuaded me against it. I’m now fairly comfortable simply writing about what interests me. I can only hope that a few other people share some of my interests and enjoy reading some of what I write. Thanks to the author of the review above for sharing their views!
Oh yes, and the name of the blog is a relic from back before I learned to use WordPress. It’s a reference to some of SF author Al Reynold’s novels. The other names I considered were Haste Killed Creativity and Muscles Burning Alcohol and Nicotine because holy crap did I love Against Me! at the time.
September 26th, 2010 §
My Postalicious install has broken itself somehow and I don’t have time to figure it out. Curse you, PHP or something!
December 23rd, 2008 §
A bit of WordPress blogstat geekery: I’ve been looking at the posts that have proven most popular over the past year. Predictably, It’s post-a-rejection-letter Friday! is sitting pretty at the top by a wide margin: 1,056 views. This just goes to show that cheeky responses to blogosphere teacup-storms are always good. I was at first mildly horrified when I saw that hitcount zooming skywards, but the responses on various blogs and in comments from people who felt similarly were wonderful. Oh, and this was also the first time I experienced my name being widely misspelled. Hurrah!
Pleasingly, second place is held by my review of Michael Muhammad Knight’s The Taqwacores, with 133 views. It’s been receiving a lot of search engine clickthroughs in the last month – clearly people are starting to pay attention to the book, and damn right too. In third is a post about snatching music and sound files from the game Portal, which is probably assisted in its position by the title (“If at first you don’t succeed, you fail. And the test will be terminated”).
In 4th is my review of issue #2 of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine, which also pleases me. The people, they want the good fiction (probably why my own stories appear quite far down this list). In 5th is a linkfest page that places so highly because I linked to it for background/context for the rejection letter furor.
Other worthies are my review of Mitch Clem’s Nothing Nice 2 Say collection, the About Me page (haha), and my most popular piece of Friday flash, We’re Never Going Home!, with 54 views.