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Dear Tom,
In terms of what a blog is, it doesn't really matter what kind of punctuation you have. A blog isn't meant to be a personal treatise or even a composition. It's just a piece of your brain–or in this case, a chronological stream of thoughts. You can do that in one sentence, if you'd like, because people don't usually think in terms of grammatical efficiency. In fact, John Green just said in his vlog that grammar is only meant to increase the efficiency in communication. But blogs aren't really communication, per se. I mean, there are comments, which make them less one-sided than a newspaper article, for example, but mostly they're one person sharing his or her ideas. Which isn't really communication in a traditional sense, because to “com”municate, you need at least two sides.
So this is ok…your blog. I like it.

Yours truly,
someone

Flow. Like reading a poem. This is how thoughts run, and you've made it a blog. It's actually like a relief for the eyes to read, they don't need to stop, just go on.
You know there are books written without punctuations.

Well.. I'm swedish and didn't have trouble reading this!

Ah, ignore the other comment asking when you went over Animal Collective on the other post. Apparently, I can't read blogs in order. My first Animal Collective was Merriweather, so Feels was totally different (in a good way)

I like this. It feels more like a conversation then a blog. A typical blog just feels like someone throwing stuff at you, and you put it together at the end. However, people are going to comment more on the style of how you wrote this rather then what you actually told us in it.

I think if people are reading your blog in the first place it's because they like your style and how you think, and are interested in you, so however you present it their interest will be maintained.

Oh! I somehow missed this post. I can't believe you'd never listened to Feels before… mostly because this is how I got into Animal Collective (if I could say I'm into them…I'm not sure I love / am familiar with a large enough percentage of their music to say so). I believe Purple Bottle was the first song I ever heard by them. The first time I heard it, I found it slightly abrasive, but by the third time, I just couldn't stop listening to it. I wanted to say that there are songs on Feels that I dislike, but upon listening to it again, I find that there aren't any. And after hauling it around on my ipod for many months, I finally listened to Merriweather Post Pavilion, which I enjoyed but in a sort of album-in-its-entirety kind of way, nothing in particular stood out, which I don't necessarily see as a problem.

I really don't understand why you're embarrassed about blogging. first of all, people who read this probably like you enough to not judge you. second, you shouldn't feel pressured to turn everything you want to say into some sort of song, sometimes people don't need everything to be in a pretty wrapping, it's always the thought; the emotion behind it all that really counts. and you say you find it hard to write things, but you've already written a huge long paragraph, so you couldn't have found it that hard to do. anyways, i find that this type of blog works for you, it has an interesting flow to it and it reflects your personality as well.

as a side note, i think you're amazing. you come up with such beautiful songs and play too many instruments for me to even keep track of. keep doing what you're doing, and good luck in the future.

Rawness relates so much better than carefully thought out and planned blogs – otherwise it just gets completely superhuman and all we are left to do is marvel – It's this kind of stuff which best conveys thoughts and ideas, and we can empathise more comprehensibly, nobody's mind works in properly constructed sentences in appealing packaging – this is far more real and connected. Blogs aren't meant to be FOR people, or win over people – its a vent for ideas to be sorted and tangible, for others to take an interest in if they should want to. We have an interest in your thoughts because the way your mind works resonates with us, therefore anything you have to say will be valued.
I covet your brain and skillz, and if its possible to turn out to be half of the brilliance you are, I would die content with my being and accomplishments.

I love this, particularly the splatter of thoughts you've spewed onto the page– the method beautifully enhances the matter.

Oh, and Ikea is awesome, so I'm excited to find out what you've done there that's amazing.

Oh. My. God.
Tom, I love you even more now. You expressed perfectly the way I feel about this. You are extremely amazing and I wish I could meet you in real life but I don't live in the UK, I live in the USA, and no one ever comes to Nashville which is ridiculous because after all we're Music City and the Athens of the South, you'd think more people would come here, but no, and now the Symphony Hall's down because of the flood and that just makes me so mad, that they lost two Steinways and an organ….

At the risk of sounding histrionic, your blogging makes any and every other sense of the word seem somewhat reprehensible. I could listen to you talk forever, simply because you express everything so perfectly.

I sound like a stalker…(;

Megankelly.

Tell me about it! I live in the UK, but on some crappy island called the Isle of Wight. People only come down here because of the Isle of Wight festival. But I'm too freaked out to go to that, because people get bottles smashed over their heads and things thrown at them. It's pretty violent.

you make sense to me,

and if I understand you as much as I think I do, you would feel better knowing someone understands you..

because at times that's all I really want in life. so,

I understand you tom milsom. just saying.

(even though there seems to be plenty of people here that say the same thing, I know there's never as many understanding people in real life, and that can be really hard. I think thats what we spend our whole life doing, looking for people that might understand. which is why i want to meet you although i live 9834235623 miles away in the us.)

The first reason this is awesome is because it is all one sentence, which I really like, and it's also great because I undertsnad how you feel, I think, because if I understand what you've said correctly then I feel the same way about life in general, as in I could put all my thoughts and feelings into paragraphs or conversations but then it wouldn't really be how I feel because I don't think in paragraphs or conversations, although actually I do think in conversations, but not written ones because I think is conversations with myself and random arguments with myself, but not out loud or in a freaky way because despite being strange I'm not that strange and I'd better stop writing this sentence and get on with doing my homework, end sentence.

Tom Milsom.
Your name gets a period, because your thoughts are a beautiful entity all contained in yourself, and, as a sentence can be retold and rewritten, you can be listened to and read from by thousands more little contained entities all at separate seconds, and suddenly, your meaning is anything but contained, and you're everywhere, and people are reaching through the tangles and screens of the internet and every kind of barrier and realizing you and how much you give without perhaps even realizing it, and I say this because I really, really relate to you as far as I can think, and the way you express yourself makes it feel as if you instead relate to me, and before I keep streaming my consciousness in this particular direction, as that is actually how I have been described, as a stream of conscious, I should say that I'm fully aware that you may never, ever read this, as it seems that you don't care much about your blog anymore, but going with what you've said about affecting one person being the goal, and just one is enough, I feel that exact way, and if you do ever see this, and it evokes absolutely anything of you, or if anyone ever sees this and it evokes anything at all, I've done what began in the first place for, which is just a small amount of contact with the rest of the emotions on the planet that I may never know was reached, and this is really becoming extensive, but there's always more, more words that aren't things and only mean how we feel them, more semantics, more sounds that reach us from people and things that they love and connect with to make connections, and this thought will never end, the more being the continuation of life walking with what someone, in the present being you, have said and have drawn from my never-ending, stretching, shaking feeling of always, always, and unending

Wow, seriously, I live right near an actual Merriweather Post Pavilion…

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