Blog Protective Services

      I've been neglectful of this blog. I haven't been giving it the TLC it deserves. I've been busy with Uncharted and it takes up a lot of time. Honestly, nothing exciting has been happening to me. My life is pretty boring right now. I've moved away from Rockford, but I'm already moving back. I've had no luck with work and now I'm just going to kill some time before leaving to Mississippi in December.
      I was surprised to see that this month I got a whole bunch of views, despite not having any new posts. So I figured people are coming along, I've gotta give them something to read. So I'll probably be posting on weekends or something, at least. This is the first blog I ever started so I should stick with it for as long as I can. Hope this post wasn't a complete bore!
     

Vacation: All I Ever Needed

Wilderness Indoor Water Park

      Imagine chilling in an over-sized townhouse, extremely spacious, a fire place in the living room, one in the master bedroom, a nice kitchen and a working dishwasher(something I can appreciate). Now, imagine that in walking distance, there are 3 different indoor waterparks. This is what I did this weekend in Wisconsin Dells, where I stayed at the Wilderness Lodge resort for 2 nights with my parents, my brothers and some cousins.

      It was a blast, unfortunately, that meant that I had to leave Uncharted unattended. It didn't completely fall off the map, but I had a few bands ticked that I took so long to get back to them. The vacation was much needed. I spent a lot of time in the waterparks and had a really good time. I was much too stressed, I didn't realize how nice it was to do absolutely nothing productive.

Well... What can I say? 

      I did a few questionable things, well, I smoked a lot of pot, but it was just to enhance my relaxation and intensify the water slides. Also, I found out that unless you live in the Midwest, The Dells aren't all that well known. Nobody I spoke to who lived on the coast knew what The Dells were, which was surprising, but after a little more thought, it didn't seem so ridiculous. In the Midwest, we really have nothing else going on, but shows, Chicago and The Dells(apparently).

      I'm back home now and back to being (somewhat) productive. Uncharted is doing a lot better than I expected, getting at least 30 views a day and it's definitely growing a lot faster than I'm comfortable with and am still looking for guest posters and whatnot. So let me know if you'd like to do a general piece on local music or if you want to pick from a handful of the bands in the midwest and write your own article about them, that'd be awesome, too!

      I just wanted to make sure I kept this page updated and that's really all that's going on. Oh yeah! I'm going to be doing my first live coverage of a music event in town and that's looking pretty exciting. I'll be covering a hiphop event in hopes of getting more hiphop artists interested in my blog!

~joeEFFINGmayo

Uncharted Area Music News

      Music is probably the only thing I can count on in a world filled with uncertainties. Long ago, I decided I would never work a 'regular' job. I needed variety and something fresh. Not only do I spend several hours listening to anything from classic Beatles to underground local bands with only friends to support them, but I'm trying to create a local music community from scratch. I call it Uncharted. 

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In search of a new design!

      It's definitely a huge task for a 19-year-old, unemployed, college dropout to take on. Fortunately for me, I have lots of faith in the project and don't have any plans on slowing down. I've already made a tiny impression on some people in the area, specifically some bigger local bands. I've written over 10 articles already in the last couple of weeks.

      Let me try and explain, remember 'handful of friends' band I mentioned before? My general plan is to unite all these tiny unknown bands via a music blog. I write about these bands that are virtually invisible, they send their friends to the article link, they post comments and talk.

      If I could create a community using these bands and their fans as a foundation, not only could I bring together the local music scene, but I could expand the blog to cover the entire midwest!

      I decided on the name Uncharted because it was definitely very fitting. This is my main focus, of course there are several other projects I'm working on(music projects, other blog projects, etc.). I really don't know why I'm writing all this, maybe to finally have it typed out. Perhaps, I could use this as a mission statement to myself. Having it visible and public might motivate me when things are looking down.

~joeEFFINGmayo

(Originally posted on Goodblog)