mood
annoyed
There used to be a time where I was unstoppable as far as creating site layouts. Inspiration spilled out of everywhere, and I even went so far as to start hand-writing the CSS in class so I could transcribe it when I got home after school.
Nowadays I can't even be bothered to draw one out in my most severe boredom. Then again, I haven't had class in a while.
I admit, a lot of this lack of inspiration stems from the death of the Golden Age of Web Mistresses. We've gone over this before, you know. All of us remaining have, at some point, bemoaned the dwindling that happened so gradually. We've all just disappeared, grown up, let our domains expire, relented to the cloying siren's song of sign-up-and-go online presences.
But really, when I look around and see what remaining personal sites are looking like lately I just get so bored. Tumblrs, Bloggers, Wordpresses . . . don't know about Tumblrs, but back in the day we'd make Bloggers and Wordpresses look good and CRAZY. This is a GM site, after all. And nowadays they're just columns, headers, widgets, ho-hum. Guess everyone's busy gussying up their Twitters now. Social networking, feh. I remember when the closest thing to that was WebRings.
But we're not all dead! I check my links regularly to see where you're all hiding. They're still out there, and I am always thrilled to find them. Ladies, I commend you! You still charge me with inspiration and wow me with your style.
So I've been thinking it's probably high time I go nuts with a concept like I used to. Scrape together photos of random stuff, of which I undoubtedly still have hundreds -- get a little high-school on that Photoshop -- and most importantly, THROW MY HEADPHONES ON AND START UP THE ENTIRE BIKINI KILL CATALOGUE. I got some Le Tigre, too, for a little modernity. Nothing lights a fire like Kathleen Hanna. Am I right, ladies? I guess for some of you it's Tori Amos. Whatever it is that makes you feel like you're getting closer to art, is my point. Whatever your attitude, the music is always the catalyst.
Now that I've got the catalogue back in digital format, and I got this great pair of cushy headphones, and I'm finding a little more free time every day . . . it's on. It's so on. I'm ready to kick my sleeping riot grrrl in the ribs and get her back on the move.
