TRMW Archives

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October 11, 2005

My Blog Looks Different

Yep, it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally gotten around to redesigning this thing. I was getting really tired of all the tiny text and boxes on the old design and wanted something a little brighter and easier to read. I also wanted something simultaneously dentist-office ugly and early-nineties neon fugly, apparently. Hopefully this is a move in all those directions at once. What do you all think? Seriously, any and all suggestions are really helpful, as this is by no means a final draft and I want to make this as nice as possible for all of us. HOLLABACK!!!!!!

Also, check out this rad thread on the Urban Honking msg boards. It involves a certain really influential music website, an insta-big band, the (non)existence of absolute truth in the universe, and some French philosopher guy. Yeah, some very interesting conversation going on in there these days.

Smoke em if ya got em: ;’)-~

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June 3, 2005

Bob Head Round the World

The Ultimate Blogger competition is the best thing to hit the Internet since sliced AOL. They’re down to their final two contestants, and one of them has taken the other one hostage. The hostage taker is now demanding viewers send him head bobbing videos. Here’s mine.

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April 4, 2005

UrHo, meet TRMW

Hello UrbanHonking, my name is Matt Wright (the real one). I’m a 23 year old dude living in Portland, OR, totally obessed with music, going to lots of shows, putting on shows, DJ, plays in a band, you know the type. For work I do freelance music publicity. You may know me from my role on the sitcom Different Strokes or from my work with Holocene and Berbati’s Pan, or with the bands Blitzen Trapper and Adelaide (HOLLA!), and soon the Snuggle-Ups and (hopefully) Portland General Electro. I look like this.

I just moved over here from Metempsychosis, the semi-dormant mp3 label I help run, which is where this blog first took shape. It started out as a simple news feed on my artist page on that site. As such, it mostly served to alert my imaginary readers to new tracks I had posted. If you dig back through the archives, all of which made it here mostly intact, you’ll notice that the entries get shorter, and I get considerably younger.

The title of this blog is my attempt at establishing my realness within the virtual sphere. Used to be whenever I searched for “Matt Wright” (very rarely) I’d end up with this guy and some baseball players and ABSOLUTELY NO ME. This blog changed that; I am now Google’s tenth highest search result. That mission accomplished, I now face the larger challenge of asserting my identity off-line. Wish me luck.

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February 14, 2005

Very soon now TRMW will be moving over to Urban Honking (here), and I’m really really excited about it. UrHo, as they call it, is a local Portland blog community of sorts, which also includes a show calendar and message board. It’s a very special thing, with lots of great creative stuff going on. There’s talk of Team Tinnitus moving over there too eventually. My music will stay here on Metem, where it belongs, but this rambling all-about-me stuff will be gone. Stay tuned!

Just got around to reading this (it’s been shortcutted on my desktop for weeks) and quite enjoyed it. That last sentence is me to a T – it’s almost creepy. Probably the only blog that’s really managed the YobNik stance would be this one, which sets it apart from pretty much every other music blog out there.

Stuff like this is why I like blogs (well, one of them); serious thought about music and how it relates to society, totally divorced from release dates and totally, wonderfully pretentious.

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fig 16: beatnik, guitar, she-beatnik

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