Ok so it’s morning now and rather than being drunk and cantankerous, I am slightly hungover and cantankerous, but this is ok.
And while I think my subheader, “diary of a crazy musician who refused to give up” is pretty darn embarrassing and lame, it does at least point to the purpose of this blog, which is to tell the story of my pigheaded decision to revive my “career” (I use the word loosely) as a musician, at the slightly crusty age of not-quite-35 and now that I am well entrenched with a baby and ‘real job’ and all those things that are supposed to make you give up on such silly adolescent fantasies.
I think I will write a static “About” post about this. so go there and read about it.
Meanwhile I have a few things to sort out, and the first is:
The Name.
back in the day, I was the only Seamus rock singer in Adelaide (I live in Melbourne now) and that was all that mattered.
Nowadays of course we compete with the entire planet for our name and frankly, there are a shitload of Seamus’s out there and they all seem to be singers. Most of them use a surname of course, but I’ve always been a bit of a tosser and preferred the single name thing, yes, like Madonna or Sting or whatever. A bit sad I know but bugger it. And anyway, do this for me, google Seamus Ennis (Ennis being my surname, not Anthony, that’s me middle name).
See what I am up against there? I just can’t be bothered taking that guy on, he got there first basically.
So I am soon to create a static site for my music, and I need to decide on a domain name for that. Here’s an email I just shot off to my mate Steve about it. I think it explains the predicament well enough:
“Hi Steve,
do you think i should call my “static” music web page, seamusonline.com or musicbyseamus.com or seamusanthonyennis.com or seamusmusic.com or any other ideas?
remember seamusennis.com is taken, although i could get seamusennis.net but more to the point, google “seamus ennis” and check out those results, bit of a battle taking all that on!
and all the just seamus.whatevers are taken, I own seamus.net.au and i could buy seamus.asia but that seems a bit silly. although we kind of are in asia i suppose.
should i just use seamus.net.au and be done with it? i suppose the decision really is do i want people to google “seamus” or do i want people to google “seamus anthony” or “seamus anthony ennis” ?
google seamus for me and tell me if you reckon we could get to the top of that lot. there is no straight seamus contender… maybe i should just shoot for that and keep chasing seamus.com, they’ll sell it to me eventually but i think it will be pricey.
Anyway, whatever, but I need to make a decision….