Thursday, August 4, 2011

welcome

I'll be updating my thoughts periodically on here. Don't look for any kind of set schedule or time-based updates though. Set responsibilities aren't really my jam, so...

Anyways, in case you guy(s) are wondering about the name of the blog:

When I was trying to come up with a name for the blog, I wanted to have [creative adjective]+[creative noun that possibly alliterates (is that a verb?) with the preceding adjective].blogspot.com. Unfortunately, I just could not come up with any kind of noun. At least not any that I feel do justice to encompass my entire being (my blog hopefully will feature all sorts of updates and become a textual embodiment of me). And so, I just went with the adjective that I had been hoping to use: agrestic.

According to dictionary.com, agrestic has two definitions (besides being the original setting of Weeds, the TV show):
1. rural; rustic
2. unpolished; awkward

When I saw this word, I knew I was going to use it right away. Something about the word seemed to be very close with how I perceive the world. Even after 22 years of life in this world, I continuously find myself being simultaneously awed and irritated by so many things (not unlike a countryboy on his first journey to the big city). That is chiefly the reason I started this blog. I want to share my fascinations and my rage-fits.

I decided to not give my blog name a tangible entity (a noun) because I figured it would be easier (and more beneficial) to find a word that describes how I do things rather than a word that describes what I do.

And so, there you have it.

Welcome to agrestic.

PS: The URL is ridiculously long because agrestic was already taken so I put all of definition 2 in the name. Sorry. Hopefully you remember.