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Just back from visiting friends in Europe. This picture was taken in Belgium in my friend Christophe‘s kitchen.
From 2004 to 2008, under the pseudonym Deek Deekster, I wrote Blog of Funk. This work was an unadulterated expression of personal truth, an exploration of the form, a long, rambling, tight, focused, fun, savage, kind, irritable, precise, impressionistic tour-de-force of a blog, which made me many friends and a few enemies. I ported the entire work to The Other Side of Everything where I continued to write in much the same vein, wanting to focus this domain on more pertinent subject matter, such as funk music, and specifically, the kind of music I like, write and perform.
Since the first blog was such a huge success, I scotched the title and left it to posterity, and I’m not saying I made a mistake. But, I do miss the title, Blog of Funk. It said what it was on the tin, even though it wasn’t just about music at all, but about the navigation of this contrary world we inhabit.
With the balance shifted towards the music, and my usual self emerging despite all attempts to encourage work elsewhere, enough time has elapsed to write this blog again under it’s old banner.
Welcome back, Blog of Funk.
Found this: I am talking podcasting, radio and pictures in 2007 on the BBC website. Can’t remember the interview but it sounds like the kind of stuff I was concerned with at the time.
It seems more like a decade ago that this was pubished, but in fact, it’s only three years. Technology develops so fast, and with it the culture it has spawned.
I still prize the internet for what I first saw it as – the world’s first truly global cultural exchange.