one reason not to baleet your myspace page

so, i got a myspace page forever ago, and i used it for awhile, but eventually got bored and now i mostly forget about it. i've toyed with deleting it a few times, but was always too lazy to bother--plus, i'm one of those "just in case" people. anyhow, those of you who also have myspace pages probably have been spammed by bands asking to be your friend. i pretty much always ignore them. i just delete the friend requests before even checking the profile. i'm a jerk.

but tonight i got a message (not a friend request) from an artist, which i thought was kind of weird and interesting. i had never heard of him before, and in fact didn't realize he was an artist (rather than a random joe) at first... but when i read his message, it was relatively personal, friendly, on-topic, and not at all misguided. he pointed out something we had in common, told me to check out a cover version of a song he'd done (a song i love), and let me know that he'd be in town tomorrow night for a show. i clicked on his profile, and as soon as his songs started playing i was all, how have i never heard of this guy? he's awesome! seriously right up my alley of music-lovin'. i listened to all the songs on his profile, then went over to iTunes and listened to a bunch of samples, and within a couple of hours i had bought a [mumble mumble] amount of his music. and i'm really bummed that i'm already double-booked for tomorrow evening, because i honestly would have tried to rope my husband into going with me to the show.

well done, gregory douglass!