a wish for things that work

coming up with the title for a blog is stressful.  you want it to be something witty, not boring, understandable for any readers, and of course cool.  my last blog was called "wood houses".  to be very honest, when it got to the "name  your blog" part of the set up on tumblr i turned around and read the first book i saw on my shelf (yea, i have a book about cool houses made out of wood, what of it?).  so when i got to the "name your blog" part of the blogger set up i turned around and read the titles of the two books on either side of "wood houses".  on the left is "get in the van", a book compiled by henry rollins about life on the road with black flag (and in my opinion a great way to get flagged by the branch of the fbi that looks for child predators on the internet...www.getinthevan.blogspot.com).  and on the right is "the audacity of hope", a book written by barack obama about hope or america or something like that (i never read it and i dont care to have any political theme or persuasion affiliated with the title of my blog).  

from there i scoped out some other book titles that may double as my new blog title.  "lord of the flies" wasnt going to cut it so i moved on to song titles from my itunes library.  at this point though i realized that just about everything i typed in as a potential title was already in use/unavailable.  how many blogspots are there in this world?  and how many people could also want their url to be www.appleshampoo.blogspot.com?  because guess what?  that url is already taken.  

anyways, i finally typed in "a wish for things that work" which is the second track off my favorite poison the well album "the opposite of december".  blogger accepted my title and i never looked back.  so here we are.  im sure that somewhere down the line i will have a much more interesting interpretation of my blog title and apply it to some sort of life struggle or childhood memory, but for now its just ripped off from poison the well.  

i left tumblr (for written stuff, i will still post videos and pictures etc. on tumblr im sure).  tumblr is superb for posting pictures, videos, links, songs, and even long, written out blog entries.  i just felt like i was taking up all the space on everyones dashboard every time i posted a long, drawn out blog entry.  tumblr is closer to twitter in terms of quick, shared links, thoughts, comments, pictures, etc.  its short and sweet.  with this blog i can write all i want and if you care to come over and read it, cool.  if not, oh well, you are missing out.  

so heres to a new blog.  i hope you enjoy my rants and raves because i certainly enjoy writing them.