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Finally I have my own server and domain. A special thanks goes out to Ken for generously giving me his server for free. Endless Sonata is now up and running with a shiny new layout. Won’t you please tell me what you think of it? Simply click on the link above to comment. Also, vote by using the poll below.

After thinking some more, and looking at your suggestions, I was surprised that the majority of the people picked Piece(s) of Me. That one was one of the ones I liked the least (^^;;). It reminds me too much of Ashlee Simpson (not that I have anything against her). Dropping the “s” didn’t help much.

So why did I pick Endless Sonata? Well, I like the way sonata sounds. I also happen to be a musician/ex-musician since I currently don’t play any instruments, but I do recall liking sonatas. And that name is also the most original. I took the Endless part from Endless Waltz (an anime movie), and Silent Sonata (from a piece of artwork I found on luvluv.net) and stuck them together. At least I think that’s where my inspiration came from. Yes it’s disappointing that I always seem to have reference points such that my ideas are never 100% original. But I believe that’s true for basically everyone else.

I also like it because, well, symbolically life is a never ending song. Since I’m not too great at singing, life is an instrumental song, and I’m playing solo. A solo instrumental song with usually three to four movements in contrasting keys, mood, and tempo is what a sonata is, I think. I hope. The sonatas I’ve played are that way; but they can be a duet, like a flute solo with piano accompaniment. The piano part will be you guys. And my sonata can have more than four movements…errr maybe. I’m not sure when one movement ends and another begins. Yay I’m so excited!

This also calls for a new theme. I’ll have to have music notes somewhere on this site. Otherwise, you wouldn’t get in the mood for music when you visit. The new layout will have either a brighter color scheme, or a pastel one. Either way, I think it will have less grey, since I like variety. The other themes will still be accessible via the Themes section in the sidebar. Hmmm maybe something like midori_hitomi (my dead Xanga account)….? I like how the blending of warm colors turned out. It has sheet music in the background. I’d like to implement a blending of colors with sheet music, and a fluid appearance somehow. The color scheme may be green, yellow, red, orange, and navy blue. Or maybe that’s too much. It could be green purple and orange/golden yellow/tanish yellow.

Do you guys like my ideas? Sorry this entire entry is about Endless Sonata. I didn’t realize I’d write that much just on a site title. But people do say a narrow blogging topic is ideal. I think. I say “I think” a lot don’t I? Also, does my site seem to run a bit slow? Sometimes it does for me. Munin also says it’s slow, but sometimes it’s not slow at all. I’m not sure what’s wrong.

Sidenote: I edited the About page, and did some editing on each of my themes.

Now that I have switched to a different host, I need to come up with a creative name for my site. Again. So far, this is what I’ve come up with:

• Forever Dreaming
• Lost in Thought
• All I Need
• Piece of Me
• Just Being Me
• Whisper of the Heart
• Let Go
• If I Could Tell You
• I am Who I Am
• Endless Sonata
• Wistful Fantasy

For now, I’ll settle for Divine Reverie, but I’m not sure if it’s going to be the permanent name. Also, the tagline is “Somewhere only we can imagine”. If you have any ideas, that’d be great. I always take forever coming up with names though.

Oh yeah and thanks to Munin for hosting me.