SYHAP Update: Restructuring

I'm not quite sure why we're writing this as if we have an audience to write it for.

We here at SYHAP are massive music geeks. Hell, I spend the majority of my time doing things related to music - listening, reading about, getting, organizing, etc. - to the point where it fucks with my day-to-day life (e.g., massive sleep deprivation). We think and talk about it a lot; we've got the passion, really. But to be frank, we're just not that good at writing about it. I have a million bands I want to write about. Pretty much ever day I listen to something and think, "man, it'd be great do a piece on this". I'll get the idea, even kind of an outline in my head...a few stray phrases...then I sit down to write it and all that comes out is the few stray phrases. "[band] is like [crazy abstract description]" - stare at screen for 20 minutes, get bored, do something else. Every now and then we can choke out a decent piece, but not with any regularity and not at any kind of pace. A piece every two months simply isn't worthy of a blog. Then there's the problem of relevance. In the sea of music blogs out there, we don't really have a piece of land to claim - we're not current, we don't offer downloads, we don't focus on any specific genre or scene, we don't usually have anything really obscure, and we don't write well enough to get anywhere on that alone. Long story short, this music blog thing hasn't exactly been dynamite for us.

So we've decided to broaden our horizons. Film is another form near and dear to both of us, and really, our few writings on film for the site have been among our best, so fuck it, SYHAP is no longer a mere music blog - we're a culture blog. This mainly means tons of film writing. But hey, other stuff might creep in - TV (when it doesn't suck - so don't hold yr breath), comics, games, whatever really. And lest there be any confusion, we still plan on keeping up music writing. Essentially music writings will be as frequent as ever, but there'll be other stuff to fill the in-betweens. 

So if anybody actually does read this, keep us in mind - with any luck we'll make it worth your while.