Prelude

I would imagine that most people reading this already know me and thus know most of what I'm about to say, however, for those who do not, my first post will simply be an explanation of things to come.

To begin, I'll simply say this: I hate blogs and bloggers. That being said, I'm creating this for a multitude of reasons ranging from political and social problems to music related rants. That's what I'll be posting: rants. Now, I tend to get overly wordy and my grammar isn't always the best, but frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn. You will not always agree with what I say and at some point, I'm bound to offend or upset you but remember, at the end of the day, these are my thoughts on various subject. So deal with it.

Now, a little backing information. My name is Michael, but I go by Mike. I went to culinary school in Pittsburgh and am now a sous chef at a local fine dining establishment. Though I was born in Indiana, for me, West Virginia is and will always be home to me. I tend to use what little free time I have for music listening/playing and watching documentaries. I've always hated the phrase 'music is my life' because it's fucking stupid. However, I do consider myself a music lover in every sense of the word. My mother, a cellist, began teaching me cello when I was about 18 months old and it's been nonstop since. My father introduced a love of rock'n'roll, blues and folk starting basically from birth. The combination of the two spectrum's have influenced pretty much every aspect of what I listen to and play. Periodically, I will be posting songs from artists that I look up to. Brace yourself.

To conclude, I don't give a good shit what your thoughts are on the subject of me 'blogging'. I do it for me in order to get things off my chest. My hope and goal for this is that perhaps it will provide me some sort of relief rather than bottling up my anger and whatnot.

Thanks for reading