Hello, friends!
Most of you by now probably already know this, but for those readers who haven't been closely following my musical adventures, I did (as promised) release my debut music album Strangers back on September 29th. It has 12 of my original songs on it, including my first seven singles from 2021 and 2022, and five new songs which were previously unreleased, all from 2023.I'm very pleased with how it turned out, and it has been so much fun sharing it with the world, and hearing peoples' reactions to the songs and the album. I also released new lyric videos for the five new songs, so you can listen to the entire album on YouTube, with videos, if you prefer that to just listening on your favorite music streaming service.
If you're curious about it, please click either the link to my music website, and/or the link to my music YouTube channel, on the lower right side of the page.
And if you want to stay in touch with what I'm doing creatively by receiving occasional emails (about either this blog, and/or my music), please go straight to my music web site's Contact page, and add your name and email to my email list! I haven't actually sent any emails out yet, but I plan to shortly, and then only every so often (and you can quit any time). So please join!
By the way -- I expect to begin writing more about the topic of artificial intelligence (AI), as you'll see by my next post later today. But the arrival of ChatGPT last year actually poses immediate questions that relate to this blog, and what I'm doing in continuing to write it (or why).
If I wanted to, I could now ask ChatGPT to write my blog posts for me, once I've found a book, or a show, or any topic I want to share with you, so why should I even bother to do it myself? And it's a very reasonable question, one that every writer and creative person is now having to ask. But that won't be happening here any time soon.
ChatGPT can accurately describe and summarize any work of art or source of information we ask it about, at whatever intellectual level and in whatever writing style we might choose. That is an amazingly powerful tool, which like millions of other people, I look forward to exploring and using more in the years ahead.
But my blog is written to tell you what I think about something, to use my own words, and to describe it based on what I found interesting and important, not on a condensation of what a lot of other anonymous writers said. So at least until I say otherwise, please be assured that the content on this blog is 100% human-generated.
One more very gratifying bit of news I wanted to share is that when I logged on this morning, I noticed that my "page views" count for The Memory Cache blog has just passed 10,000 (since I started this blog in February 2022).
It's not a huge number, but it's very pleasing to me, since it means that there are still readers out there who are interested in what I have to say, even after my 6-month absence this year while I was working on the album. So I will keep writing and posting more reviews, and my own thoughts about the very best of what I read, watch and notice. Thank you so much for visiting!
In fact, in that vein, it's Thanksgiving tomorrow, my favorite holiday of the year. So I'm wishing you, your family and friends a very happy Thanksgiving, and giving thanks myself for my own family, friends, readers, music followers and community in this always-interesting time and place we share. Stay well, and have a wonderful holiday season!
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