First

When I was in middle school, a DJ came to St. Louis radio for one year. His name was Tim Virgin. (He’s on the air now somewhere in Arizona. You can listen online, thank you world wide web.) Anyway, he was quite possibly the best DJ in the history of the world, and I adored him. I taped many of his shows, just his normal daily radio stuff, and I still have a lot of the tapes in my underground vault. It was a golden age for the Point, as I recall (um, which days are gone. LONG gone.) So, I wanted to be a DJ for about four years after Tim Virgin. Which I realized a couple of days ago is the longest I’ve ever wanted to be anything, for a straight period of time. Why didn’t I end up becoming one? I talked myself out of it. It wasn’t intellectual enough...or something… So I made the brilliant move of studying philosophy, a topic we will reserve for a later time. Since I gave up that dream, I have spent, oh, about nine years trying to figure out what in the name of all that’s holy I should do with my life. What the hell is the point? It seems St. Louis is starting to have a local music scene again. I remember when it was booming. (and I’m not that old, kids. It’s marginally sad that I can already “remember when” about this.) Maybe I haven’t paid enough attention, but since I moved back to the STL three or so years ago I haven’t felt a wealth of love and attention for our local bands, but that trend seems to be changing. For good reason; we have a lot to be proud of, really. Now if you have been a steadfast fan, I am not saying we had NO local music for the last howevermany years, just that it hasn’t seemed very promoted. I am swiftly becoming obsessed in our scene again, and while I don’t necessarily want to grace the airwaves with my dulcet tones, I do want to get involved on the production/marketing side of things. Hence, I shall be trying out KDHX soon. As long as my paltry expendable income holds out, though, I will try to see more local shows and buy (yes buy, purchase, pay money for. or borrow. Suck it, I’m poor) local releases. And I shall, because I want to impart my views on the world, review said local things and promote what I can online. That being said, tonight I’m going to see Dax Riggs at Off Broadway. He isn’t local, but the show should rock. I love music and I love musicians and who knows...maybe I was on the right track in high school and got diverted unnecessarily by ivory towers, espresso and the glamour of eating thirty different kinds of cereal anytime I wanted. There is something to be said for a University Education. OK, this is the beginning of a new-stage-in-life (that’s really overdramatic) chronicle. 26-year olds should not have new-stage-in-life-chronicles, but there it is.
Go see a show.