Hello
degenerates, heathens, weirdos, and deviants. I am the Rock Otaku, and
I’m here to show you worlds such as hard rock, metal, punk, alternative rock,
movies, TV, anime, video games, and anything that makes us scream, shout, and
let it out.
As
for this entry, this is to tell you what’s in store for March 2017. If you’re wondering what things are like, here’s
a Brief Summary. Let Them Eat Metal got
two more entries in February (and one before this look into what I planned),
with them both providing some new ideas in how I do things in the series, from
other genres that I look at and how I do the entries. For example, it isn’t just heavy metal, speed
metal, progressive metal, and power metal for my series. I can review hard rock, glam metal, and modern
rock/metal, and that there is a chance that thrash metal, death metal, and
black metal can be reviewed in the near future.
That and the format isn’t restricted to track-by-track reviews. I can do a more traditional album review
focusing on the entire package, comparing multiple albums, and even analyzing
how various elements of music, from genres, styles, movements, and even where
the band is from. Overall, expect more
changes to the series. That and
Metallica and Aerosmith will get entries this month.
As
for everything else, I did not do enough with the Billboard Chart Watch. That was due to how I did things with both
sets: the Rock charts and the Japan Hot 100.
For the former, I feel that, due to how it’s the easier of the two
charts to analyze and write snarky jokes about due to my interests, tastes, and
first language, I did not do enough with that entry. The latter, as I’ve mentioned, was much
harder to do based on the fact that A) Japan is more selective of the songs
from there (western hits are easier to talk about), B) the current language
barrier despite having some knowledge of the Japanese language in how it’s
spoken, and C) the usual amount of new hits.
I might set it so that there’d be more of the rock chart analysis, with
a certain amount of weeks set to include analysis of current pop trends in
Japan (I hope to do more of that), and I hope to make it a weekly thing, as the
series would be a lot more fun on a weekly basis. Plus, I do have plans on revisiting weeks
that I completely missed, and providing my thoughts on the “newcomers” of that
week. In short, expect a lot of funny
moments there.
Now
for my countdowns, I do plan on keeping it a bi-weekly thing, but I do have
some cool plans for the next two, and I’ll make sure that they do exist. For the first one, I’ll bring up some ideas
on what should replace the Aerosmith theme for Rock N’ Roller Coaster in Disney
World. It may hurt me as much as it
hurts you, but I’ll go into depth on why this should be considered. The next will be, interestingly enough, the
ten styles of rock, and a few others, that got me into rock and metal and
shaped my musical tastes for better or worse.
Expect a lot of humiliation, embarrassment, and ear-opening from yours
truly, enough to probably cause enough closed-minded morons to unsub or
unfollow me, or even lose faith in my judgement.
But
enough with the focus on the past and the ideas for the future. Time to discuss a big deal. I have a Facebook page. It’s right here: https://www.facebook.com/RockOtaku92/. And that was because I completed one goal I
have in readership of a single entry from last month: 40 views and I’ll make a
Facebook page for the series. And this
was thanks to a review of The Princess Bride (which I decided to close the month
for), and that got at least 40 views in less than a week. And that’s both a great thing as it proves
that either I have a strong sense of cinematic language or that I’m not
focusing on the right topics.
Regardless, I do have a much stronger shot of connecting to a wider
audience, creating a much more well-defined persona for myself on the internet,
engaging with old and new fans alike in a much better way than what I was
doing, and so on. In short, I can
provide a much stronger presence and reach to you all with these.
As
for other stuff, like other reviews, reactions, responses, and even snarky
comments about a major event in recent memory, may it be from society, the
media, or even in other fields of study and work, that is more up in the air
and based on A) if I feel like it, B) if I can provide a unique perspective on
it, C) if it’s something I feel strongly about or can make a funny observation
about, or D) if I’ve seen, heard, or read about it for myself. Though there is also a strong sense that I’ll
probably check out Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Beauty and the Beast (the remake, and hopefully the last American one), Power
Rangers, Ghost In The Shell, or
any other films coming out in theaters (hopefully) and give my thoughts on each
and every one of those films (I need to be around more devoted cinephiles for
my movie reviews to be recent, have strong traction, and good talks about
them). And plus I’m interested in
reviewing an anime at some point (feel free to help me pick out an inaugural
anime to review). Finally, thanks to
recent news, expect a lot of jokes at the expense of Bill Condon throughout the
month. Or in favor, depending on the
joke and whether that Beauty and the Beast remake is any good. Heck, there are probably going to
pop up when I review the Metallica album I decided on: Ride the Lightning.
Now
for the goals. If you desire Tumbler,
Instagram, YouTube, and possibly DeviantArt pages of yours truly, here are the
metrics:
- Tumblr: 80 views of a single entry
- Instagram: 60 views of a single entry
- YouTube: 100 views of a single entry
- DeviantArt: 120 views of a single entry
- Patreon: Whenever I feel that ad revenue isn’t going anywhere and I need to ensure that I’m able to create some new projects, may them be written or made for visual pleasure.
- Any other social media site of choice: 150 views of a single entry.
Getting
ads for this is still based on the metric of 50 views for a single entry, and
after I’ll set up ads, I’ll start sending to you links to entries that I feel
need love while bringing back some of my pre-Let Them Eat Metal entries on
Channel Awesome, with a link to those here: http://channelawesome.com/forums/xfa-blogs/rockotaku92.149492/. And for the rest, 100 views of a single entry
leading to me to start taking requests and suggestions for my work. 150 will lead to the start of the first
Q&A, where I’ll, based on your questions, reveal my deepest, darkest
secrets. 200 views will lead to the
first ever special entry of Let Them Eat Metal: Let Them Eat Metal by The Rods,
the album whose name inspired the title of my main heavy metal and hard rock
series (when I’m not talking about rock and metal making the Billboard
chart). 300 views will lead to a review
of the movie 300 and/or it’s
sequel/prequel/inter-quel 300: Rise of an
Empire (Since both came out in March and these are my plans for March). 400 views will lead to a LTEM
for Metallica’s Master of Puppets. And for 500 views, I’ll do a multipart LTEM
reviewing every Judas Priest album in a multipart mini-series (which might lead
to LTEM being a weekly series for a brief time) as a tribute to my first post
of this series here: http://rockotaku92.blogspot.com/2016/12/let-them-eat-metal-1-screaming-for.html. A part of this will be a re-review of
Screaming for Vengeance with my evolving style depending on a poll beforehand. For an Iron Maiden, Accept, Motorhead, Black
Sabbath, Savatage, Van Halen, or even Metallica min-series, that will be
decided on various factors such as how well it does. And for every final/most recent album, I’ll
come up with, as I’ve done for Band-Maid, ideas on how the band’s should go
forward or how any aspiring bands or artists should take elements in music and
image from the band being discussed.
Overall, things should be fun this month, and they rely on you as they
do on me.
As
for my Facebook and Twitter, check them both out for updates, news, interesting
facts, and other fun stuff. Be sure to
like and follow them respectively. Here are
the links if you’re interested:
This
is the Rock Otaku, Live Loud and Play Hard.
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