I’m sure some of you are aware that despite my American citizenship, I am actually Bermudan (meaning born on the isle of Bermuda, not meaning that I enjoy short white shorts and colorful shorts). I’ve had the pleasure of visiting the island a few times recently because my cousins are now at the age where we’re all experiencing the heavy drinking Shane genes and enjoy some similarly outrageous nights. Last time I was down there I got to see a group called Homegrown perform at a bar. Here’s a little informative video about them. But the larger, stranger thing going on is that with Collie Buddz (Come Around - great great song) emerging on the music scene, Bermuda has a strangely large musical presence it seems right now. I enjoyed Homegrown’s music as much as one does, and really like Collie Buddz. I don’t really know of any other Bermudan musicians (more specifically any that have enjoyed a more international success), but it’s interesting to see some Bermudan influences out there.

If any you have written blogs, read blogs, or whatever, you know that they often put up random pictures and all sorts of stuff that I suppose they may or may not have proper access to. I suppose I just kind of figured stuff that was already out there in the blogomat/internetosphere was somewhat free game. Okay, actually, I knew that wasn’t true, but I guess I just figured, “Who the fuck is reading my blog anyway?” Apparently people are.

Today, I got an email notifying me that I had infringed on copyrights. I say here that I fully accept responsibility for it. I have taken the picture down and it was entirely my fault. While I did not know that the picture was fully protected, I should have contacted proper authorities to find out. Not just thrown it up nilly dilly (or is it willy nilly?). Lesson learned: do not use photos that have any association with anyone except yourself. Done and done.

Other, more important lesson learned: someone’s actually reading (or at least looking at) my blog. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

UPDATE: I am also particularly tickled (I would say pink but it would be overkill - read on to see why!) because said infringement occurred on a post entitled “Terror Alert: Sequined Pink.” I must have come across as the biggest amateur. Haha….Ha…..Oh.

If anyone was reading this blog before, they’ll notice something a little different if they’re reading today.  Mainly, that the entire blog is gone.  Wasn’t that fun?  Well, we had a little problem when we tried to streamline everything and set up the reMODELed Magazine site (which is up now, with funky, junky Coming Soon banner).  So we’re here and starting from the beginning, maybe with a little more coherency but mostly likely not.

So to start from the top, I’m Michael Shane (not Petey Pab as I tried to convince you last time around).  An NYU graduate.  General ruler with iron fist, overlord type around these parts.  I’m founder, director, owner, operator, and so that means essentially everything is my fault most likely ’cause sometimes I look something like this:

Good times.  Anyway, this blog and my role here is to fill the gaps between issues of reMODELed with news, reviews, clips, pics, shtick, and other good and irrelevant things.  I’ll be the general writer here.  I’ve got lots of opinions and luckily know how to both read and write. Handy skills.  We’ll have some other contributers (maybe?) and metanarratives (yeah, meta will come up I’m sure).

And hopefully at some point we’ll hear from you (whoever you are…Jed?)