Somehow happened upon this blog tonight and thought it was probably worth noting that content posted here probably will be very infrequent in the foreseeable future, as the new job at the Austin American-Statesman keeps me plenty busy enough with writing opportunities these days. You can find my stuff quite regularly at statesman.com, mystatesman.com and austin360.com if you're interested in whatever I may be going on about. (Which mostly will be related to music news and events in the Austin vicinity.)
One parting note, then. When I first started this blog just after Vic Chesnutt's passing in December 2009, the idea was really just to put up a few thoughts about Chesnutt's music and personality. Looking back just now, I came across this list of potential names for the blog that I considered, before narrowing it down to That Magnificent Ghost. All of these are lyric snippets from Vic's songs. I think I'm happy with the choice I went with, but here were the others that lingered for awhile....
dream treefort
strategy not protocol
rabbit box
future stepped into my field
the tar is oozing from my little noggin
stupid preoccupations
primal griping
holding up a sparkler
jigsaw disposition
steeped in the dark isolation
only one of many
shimmer ephemeral
try to skedaddle
a rusty mass of machinations
that magnificent ghost
salient obsession
rambunctious cloud
