About
My name is Gerald. Some people call me Gerry. I find specific questions and labels of identity and profession often too complicated and personal to put next to my name in the about section of my blog, but in broad strokes I am a gay guy who is also a multimedia artist. I've been on various forums and blogging sites since I was in my early teens, but I've never had a personal site that I actually bothered to post to, probably because of the alienation of the post-Web2 internet. Thankfully, it looks like there's some sort of Web2 revival going on. I heard someone even made a new version of Geocities. I should probably check that out.
Some of my interests
- Music (metal, alt-etc, folk, freak-folk, industrial, noise)
- Books (Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Jeff VanderMeer, Martha Wells, Clive Barker, Barbara Hambly)
- Video Games (Interactive Fiction, twine & bitsy games, New Blood Interactive titles, Fallout, Dishonoreds)
- Drawing & Painting (David Wojnarowicz, Francis Bacon, Giambattista Piranesi, Edward Gorey, personal work in acrylics/mixed media/animation)
- Fiber Arts (Sewing, crochet, art doll construction) {some would refer to these as "crafts" but I'm not a fan of the craft/art distinction}
On my typing style
i have never had a consistant style of typing wrt capitalization/punctuation/grammer/formality/frequency and consistancy of abbreviations and i dont really know why. im a digital native i probably should have had time to build a specific habit but its not even that i have two or three specific modes that correspond exactly to setting and formality level every separate variable feels like its dependant on a bunch of mysterious other variables most of which i am not aware of at all. ive made attempts in the past to standardize it but it never felt right. one of the points of this blog is to document my own behaviors and habits in order to become more comfortable with them so it is here that i am ratifying that this (meaning all the variations mentioned) is the way i type when im writing primarily for myself, which is what this blog is for.