Is Too Much Info Ever Enough?

Is Too Much Info Ever Enough?

Woke up unusually late, it was the voices of the kids playing outside in the snow filled street that brought me round. Far as I could remember the floating melody from Kanye West´s Dark Fantasy had gone on playing like a loop throughout my brain as I slept.

It was not the only one though as TSUNAMI – a tune I had been working on the previous day – also vied for prime time inner radio play within the confines of my sleepy head. A good sign? I would say so! But I am trying to keep as positive as possible about everything in these times even if it killed me to postpone Lostboy´s tour.

I have not been writing on SM.com much recently and I am not sure why, but it is time to start broadcasting again. Sending out rapid fire, these badly written metaphoric messages in a bottle, or a bubble even.

Yes that´s it; these are merely “thought bubbles” containing my very own brand of spirited nonsense – a style of nonsense that somehow makes sense to me and occasionally some others if I believe correctly. A style not quite good enough yet to have me featured in the hallowed halls of pseud´s corner nevermind the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.

But why is it time again and why do I bother to begin with? The answer is that it´s fun for me, and if nothing else, that is why? Or actually when I think about it I suppose I began writing these mini journals “THE THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN” K etc 😉 almost a decade ago because;

A) We had a website and I felt obliged to use it to communicate something possibly of interest to our long suffering supporters, who at the time were starved of much info as we “fannied around” endlessly at the time. Not really knowing what we would should be doing with our stop start career.

B) The mainstream media interviews were rarely satisfying to me or people who cared about SM

C) In vainglorious fashion I recall now with some embarrassment that I thought my kids, who had started to question a bit more about me, might glean some little more insight into who I am, and what I do, by reading some of the chunks that appear here and occasionally try to clarify some of the motives that emanate from my minestrone mind. (Stop chortling and give me a break, I already said I am embarrassed!) Turns out I doubt they have once logged into this site.

So there you have it and for what it´s worth, this is still pretty much why I write here. Although obviously with a turbo charged and renewed sense of purpose, it´s now a long time since Simple Minds did anything that even remotely resembled fannying about! In addition to that our supporters – a lot less starved than before – have probably grown somewhat fat on too much info of a type, or at least so since TWITTER and FB came over the horizon.

Or is too much info ever enough?

Jim Kerr