Hey Jeff! Glad you liked my website. I do implore you to make a Neocities page if you love having pure creative-control over your own place on the internet. Feel free to follow me once you make yours! ;-)
Hey Jorge!
I do very much agree with how you put what I said about Neocities. How using it can be like replacing smoking with drinking, especially with those given mindsets, and seeking out a greater good in this world. Getting it from your perspective, someone who pretty much lived through the Internet's "wild-west" days, those types of eras are purely based on circumstances, just like how I believe that a lot of music was purely based on the circumstances of when it was released. We cannot really replicate an old internet world like the time you experienced, and it does suck! We're all lamenting about an era we want to relive or be able to live from days bygone. That's how I see a lot of media produced that tries to replicate older music genres from the days they peaked.
I try to set these feelings of lament aside and just appreciate what I have in the present moment, because it's this lament I feel that's what's giving me a lot of depression.
I do feel like I dwell on the topics said in "What Exactly Do I Want?". In the middle of writing it, I thought to myself, "Man, maybe I'm sounding really crazy about this." So I ended it off with a personal reflection, "Maybe I just need to stop caring about what I don't like about the world and live." It's those feelings that I, in regards to some of my disdain, which make me feel a bit isolated, like you said. I think letting my thoughts out on that page kind of hit me... but I do not regret writing it.
On the topic of interests you mentioned... I'm actually so surprised on how much it seems I share in common with you. I have an incessant love for art, so I focused on photography and became enraptured with the medium, both artistically and technically. My technical love for photography came when I was really young, and my artistic love came much later. Music was a passion for me, so I joined a college radio station. Getting involved directly with music, meeting bands in the local scene, and just meeting people on the basis of music is what I've been pining for my whole life. On the topic of Napster... I actually do use Soulseek to get my music! I'm a DJ that doesn't use streaming services pretty much at all so I'm always seeking out music that I can burn to a CD to play on my shows. Soulseek's a great place to find otherwise unheard-of music and it's been (totally legally) fun. I love the feeling going against-the-grain in terms of what I create and how I portray myself.
I know this is long, and I do apologize... but thank you so much for your kind words. I'm very glad you enjoyed reading my blog stuff. Take care my friend!