Lately, i've been going back through my posts adding titles to the posts. So, it is no longer something like Post 1, It is now Post 968: Cacophony (2/6/24). Date in parenthesis is the date i wrote it (in most cases, sometimes i forgot to put specific dates down so you get a more general approximate date).
i went back through at least post 444 and changed the posts to include the titles and set all of the text to small (though sometimes the formatting doesn't fix it - maybe a font problem). Only 500+ more to go. i really hope i didn't screw up the numbering - that would not be pleasant.
What i didn't fix:
* some "songs" written before 2000 are written in all caps. This is not a flaw or oversight, i wrote them like that for a reason. Not completely sure what the reason was. Might be an overcompensation, since i wrote those in binders in mostly pencil with some pen (sometimes i can't read my own writing). It did make the words easier to see at the time. Maybe it was from when i had a badly made personal website (GeoCities?) i listed some of these on.
* Formatting Inconsistencies: (Chorus) vs text. i used both, depended on what i copy/pasted from and largely when i inputted it. So, some have (chorus) written and some have the actual "chorus" typed out. My ex-girlfriend, who indirectly or directly inspired most of this (both bad and good emotions), said some of these were better without the "chorus" part at all (that would be the stuff before June 1999).
Also formatting inconsistencies: i wrote most earlier ones in notebooks (single sided page) so, i would use lines with commas in them instead of more additional lines i would use later. More double-sided page "songs" later.
* Some typos that are not obvious: like ones that are real words. So, there may be some word choice errors present.
* Grammar: what do you expect, this format is not greatly grammar influenced.
* Quality of the original. Maybe i could punch up "lyrics" a little, but i chose to keep them in their primitive/raw state. They still kind of suck. There is also a stylistic difference from earlier posts. Longer and differently structured.
There was a point in time where i looked at the lyrics on Richard Marx, Breathe, George Michael and others for their general verse structure and tried to emulate that with my words. i failed badly, everything became a little more word dense after that (though some is evident in earlier stuff).
Not sure if they improved (many early posts were rawer, emotionally that is). i have some really odd phrases and use some words real songwriters would likely avoid.
* Only impacts what i see in the edit state, not the web view state (which i hope is similar)
* Post grouping by numbers: Maybe i should have grouped the post numbers by date/tag originally. It might have been better. i decided to do it the way i did to spread out the posts a little - so i wasn't seeing the same style and vaguely remembering the emotions behind them all at the same time (especially around the devastation of July 1999). Also, many during set time periods are similar. Different periods of my existence ("life" would be grossly overstating it) interspersed somewhat.
To be fair, there are blocks of the same tag, i just indiscriminately chose how many i wanted to copy/paste from the copy of the original files.
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