OK, so this being the most twisted and solipsistic post I’ve done in a while and all, here’s a question for you (the ‘you’ in question being, oh…jesus….I hate thinking about this).

Right.

I have been asked to read aloud selected entries from this here blog/journal/whatever at a book launch on Wednesday. The book is about lo-fi culture; this is supposed to be illustrative of an online journal (please note, web types who know what a latecomer I am to this medium, others will be reading too!). Yes, I know, in a technological sense instant publishing is hardly lo-fi. I guess it’s the actual literary sense, ie that I write and publish this without any editing, background knowledge, authority, and that its tone is ‘lo-fi’, ie amateurish. But that’s beside the point, the point being I said I would read this bloody thing to people, like real people with ears hahaha FUCK.

SO

I ask the mythical you that read this thing, are there any entries that you think lend themselves well to this task? And don’t say the one about the aubergines and cheese, that was rubbish and you know it.

What d’you reckon? Do I go for the personal (cos that’s what these lo-fi types love innit) or do I pick the mini-essays on music, the pretentious, pseudo-authoritative theories I come up when tired, drunk and with laptop*? Do I do funny, or do I go for sadness, aging, goodbyes, musings? Shall I just tell everyone how much I love Laurie Anderson?

I have no idea right now.

Help!

*Strange how ‘theories’ come so easily to you when there’s a computer involved. I never had a head for conspiracy till I learned to type. Please suggest further reading, some theory on theorising, so that I know why this is and as a result feel a bit more comfortable with it.

Posted on Monday, May 9th, 2005by Frances May Morgan