Names are how we recognise people and objects, if something doesn't have a name then it doesn't really exist, does it? Humans so far have not found anything they can't put a name to.
Names have long been thought to hold some sort of magic, whether that be "Yeah, he looks like a Robert to me", or the belief that a witch could place a spell on you if she knows your name. Names give value to the world around us and help us to contain the abundance of information we see around us. For example, in stead of saying "The giant ball of fire above us which gives us light and heat went behind the mass of soil, rock, and water we are standing on blocking the light to the big rock in the sky that appears at night", we say "There was a lunar eclipse". Of course, that analogy breaks down when you realise that fire, light, soil, rock, water, night, and sky are all names.
It is this necessity for a name that accurately encompasses what this blog stands for, and what it aims to be, its very essence and personality, that I have wrestled with over the past few days. It lead me to a few choices:
- Dreams and Other Inaccuracies
- Inaccurate Interpretations of The World
- Minor Discrepancies
- And (suggested by Michael Steele) "To McKee or not to be"
I really liked "Dreams and other Inaccuracies" and "Inaccurate Interpretations of The World" as they pretty much summed up what my plans for this site are: My incredibly biased, and most likely wrong, view of the world through the eyes of a dreamer. And although calling myself a dreamer is admittedly very pretentious, I mean it in the way Scroobius Pip means it in the song "Waiting for the beat to kick in": A lot of my poems and writings seem to start with me waking up, or being in a dream, or dream like state. Now, this implies a certain level of abstraction in my work.. You might say I'm keeping it surreal but.. I'd rather you didn't. Fact is. I sleep a lot. It's as simple as that. I like sleepin' man. It's a nice place to be.
They both seemed a bit long though, so it got shortened to Inaccurate Interpretations.
But without further ado, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Nathan McKee. Nathan meaning "God has given" and McKee meaning "Fiery One". I am a media student aspiring to be a Radio Producer. I live in Northern Ireland and, although I don't intend to live here forever, I'm happy enough with it for now. I play bass guitar, my ultimate goal with the bass is to just be able to make people groove, the kind of groove you can't escape for days after. And to get a Rickenbacker 4003 bass and possibly a Fender Jazz Bass. Which leads me to another point, I love music. Just music in general, I'll give anything a listen to. I like reading books and graphic novels. I enjoy comic books but I don't get to read them all that often. I'm slowly starting to enjoy TV shows more than Films.
I hope you've enjoyed my blog. I'm not going to give a time frame for my next post cause I don't know when next I'll have something interesting to share.
Bye for now,
From the Fiery One.
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