anybody looking for a columnist/writer?

Hi,

Interesting comment.

I never thought of things, or my writing, as having to show that i am "knowledgeable". I merely, and always, state that this is my experience in the matter over the years, and that's not exactly the same thing as "knowledgeable".

I would be concerned about "showing" something that one might not have, as yet, for example, due to age, or lack of studies in the matter so far ... you learn more as you go along.

I think that anyone "looking" for a writer of some kind, would want someone with a strong positive attitude towards the material of choice, and an ability to discuss it well, instead of just saying generic comments that don't exactly explain the music or its contents. When you check, my comments/review of T.A.P. for example, you will find my honest feelings, and I was thankful that I had the right thoughts and ideas as commented in the response ... that is a bonus, and a rarity. 

I doubt, that today, there will be a "comprehensive" place for "writers" to do something ... until such a time as there is something original somewhere else where a handful of folks show their abilities. Just about everything nowadays, is a database (people? you're kidding me!), or one person that has a bigger interest in things that most ... but his/their position is more towards a database than it is towards anything serious about the music. A database doesn't give a poop about the music ... it just creates numbers and some folks have this idea that those numbers are what define life and living. I'm not sure that this is true for "the arts" at all, the one thing that has a wider history of no success, and yet ... there it is.

I would love to be a part of PA ... but the folks involved would not be interested in someone that has been involved in the arts so much, and is not going to help with their database, or heaven forbid, help define/decide where to place a particular band ... something that has less to do with the material than it does someone's "idea" of what things are that they listen to ... real or not! I don't live like that, honestly, and still go by feelings and what I see when I hear something, or when I see something in a film ... it's about how it cultivates your mind and body ... for me.