Count Felix Returns

Well, hi internet. Good to see you after a two year absence.

I'll come clean with you, internet. For a year and a half, I regularly updated a prog blog. And then, I suddenly stopped. Why? Well, a number of reasons. Fist of all, I didn't really start this thing with the proper intentions. I had envisioned the Prog Blog as something mostly geared at a group of friends. I thought they might be interested, and I fell for that trap. They didn't give a shit, and when I turned the focus out to the general internet, I didn't really know what I was doing. Second, I didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground. I pretended like I knew a lot about music theory, synthesizers, and the like and could give an intelligent analysis. Like most high school aged males, I was off the money. I kept going to make an ego trip, but had nothing much to say. Thirdly, my collection was running out. I didn't have the money to acquire needed material, especially in the cases where I did my tri-annual "national spotlights" on foreign countries.

So, it's been two years and a month since I last posted on the blog. I'm ready. As I've grown up, I've mostly addressed the later two, and I think I'm interested in truly designing a reviews blog for the internet at large. So, there will be some changes around here.

1) Count Felix's Prog Blog will now focus on reviews and band biographies. The editorials I was putting out were embarrassing and terrible, stating highly clichéd opinions on Prog. I won't say I'll never put out an editorial piece, but expect them rarely.

2) I'm going to adopt a regular update schedule that's a little different than the past. In the old days I aimed for 5 posts a month on random days. This was awkward and let me put things off, contributing to the final end of Count Felix's Prog Blog v.1.0. Now, you can expect an album review EVERY SUNDAY, starting this coming Sunday, April 7th. In addition to the 4-5 reviews a month, there will be jukebox features (still the same format- three Youtube videos of prog pieces) that will be posted EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY, starting next Wednesday, April 10th.

3) My old reviews vary wildly in quality- some are still pretty good and some I'm not so fond of. I might re-review a number of albums I already approached in the future, although I will promise everyone that for the first month of Prog Blog v.2.0, I will only do albums I've never tackled online.

4) I'm also going to take requests from the viewing audience, if any of you are still out there. Feel free to suggest albums you want reviewed.

With that, I'll stop for now. I've grown up a lot since I started Prog Blogging in May 2009 and I'm determined to finally put out a high quality product.