Five by Friday 1 – Quiet Bubble
[I start each week of the Five by Friday series by visiting a blog I already read and just randomly clicking an unfamiliar link on their blogroll. Unfamiliar because the point of this exercise, for me, is to move out and beyond routine and see a little of what else is out there. Then, I click a link on their blogroll, and then the next, so that by Friday there is a sort of six degrees thing going on from the starting blog/site.]
In the week since I profiled our last site, The Millions, they seem to have removed their blogroll! Had it not been there when I visited I, of course, would have chosen a different site as I do want to keep it a continuous link from the first click to the last. However, all is not lost – I was able to remember one word from the site I did click on from their blogroll when it was there – “quiet” – and, thanks to Firefox 3′s address bar which remembers everything (and which I find quite irritating at times), by typing “quiet” into the address bar, I found (again) our next site, Quiet Bubble. Yay!
Anyway, on to the profile.
Quiet Bubble seems, not surprisinging, to be about just what its tagline says – “arts, culture, Southern living, poppycock” (I have seen no sign, yet, of the poppycock, but I’ve not read everything).
This blog is authored by Walter Biggins (I love the story of the blog name) who seems to have a wide range of interests! He writes engagingly about movies, books, comics, music, books about music, DVDs and personal stories. And more – all that was just on the current front page.
He also recently published a a book review —of Ted Gioia’s Delta Blues—in the latest issue of Jackson Free Press, which is good. I guess this is a fairly regular gig for him, as he has done other book reviews for the Press. I’ve not read the book (so many things I’ve not read yet, sigh) but maybe I will. The last paragraph of the review caught my eye:
In the end, “Delta Blues” is slightly dispiriting. Gioia makes clear that, by the mid-1960s, most of what’s happening in blues music is blues revival (preservation) rather than blues resurgence (continuation and moving forward). Though Gioia never explicitly says so, the blues has become a museum exhibit. As such, this book is its definitive catalog.
… because of a conversation I had a few years ago with a friend, about the blues – well, not really about the blues but about music and art and the perception or reality of that art once it is mainstreamed and no longer underground – or musicians no longer under oppression, I guess. Or something like that.
The more I wander Quiet Bubble, the more I feel that this is a site I could spend time on – looking through everything, engaging in conversations and just having a good time, even though I am not much into music or movies (understatement).
As he wishes on his “about” page:
I hope you’ll find it a refuge from the brisk pace on-the-spot blogging and the desperate need to be Relevant, but still a place where you’ll find joy, wit, grounds for debate, and passion for life.
I think he’s accomplished that.
Five by Friday – week 1 theriomorph —> Breakfast with Pandora —> Gridley Fires – A Blog About Books and Writing —> The Millions —> Quiet Bubble —>
[note: This is also an open thread and a place to drop links to your own blogs or writings, or to other interesting places you visit.]
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