Showing posts with label birth name agrestic whythisblogexists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birth name agrestic whythisblogexists. Show all posts

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.