Dudez.  Check it out: my “Simple Ways to Idolize Me” post was picked for the musicians.about.com weekly blogroll!

http://musicians.about.com/b/2008/11/23/weekly-blog-roll-5.htm

That is twelve times rad.  A big thank you to Heather for somehow coming across my post and thinking it valuable enough to be passed on.  This is the fundamental nature of music — you find something, you like it, you tell a friend, and the rest is history.

Yesterday, not realizing that that blog post would make such a splash, I decided to dedicate a whole WordPress page to it (my rationale being, why let a post get buried in the Archives when I could just make a page of it?).  So check that out, even though it is basically the same as the blog post.

I must give thanks to fellow musician and 50/90er, Ben Walker (fabulous musician, witty lyricist, wrote the somewhat famous “You’re No One if You’re Not on Twitter” song), whose website prompted me to write that post in the first place.  He was doing even more than me — getting direct responses from his fans through online forms about what he should do with his music, which I thought was pretty ingenious (not to mention, you know, actually playing gigs and such).  I wanted to do it myself but I thought it might come across as pompous and/or weak: that I would look like I didn’t understand “the biz” or what I should do to become popular, or, more importantly, heard.  Not fully realizing that we live in an age now where music has been flipped on its head, and no one knows what to do anymore.  Questionnaires are yet another way for a musician to tap into his audience and get feedback from them directly, which is pretty damn amazing.

I, of course, took an alternate route, realizing that many of the people who listen to my music are people who had never heard of last.fm and didn’t know what the hell to do with it.  I think 95% of the internet, and the people who run it, forget that there are lot (repeat, A LOT) of people out there who do not understand what it is you’re doing with them thar internets, and are either going to never get it, or would appreciate some help in getting it.  So I thought I would help!

Anyway, just wanted to say thank you!  I am humbled by the amount of response I’ve received in the past two months alone.  It’s really all Twitter’s fault, too.  Who’da thunk it?