• What was Old is New Again. Oct 14.09

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What was Old is New Again.
Wednesday October 14.09

When I started this thing called, “TheLegendsLeague” I can admit, I had good intentions and no real plan. It was a lot like my life. A lot like it. And I thought maybe by sharing a bit of myself, I would have people sharing right back. Half of the time it didn’t work. I was getting great responses, but the ‘concept’ of TheLegendsLeague wasn’t spreading as I had intended it to. The other half of the time was sprinkled with incredibly warm and heartfelt emails and messages from people I had never met sending me their experiences, their influences, the things that turned them into the people they are today. And for that reason I was able to validate continuing to push for this small network of people on MySpace with “(*LL)” next to their name asking, “What is TheLegendsLeague?”.

Once I carried The LL over to a blog format I really started to lose the power of the concept, and only those who remembered the original pages I once posted had a direct connection to the gut of this thing I was trying to build. The rest of my great blog readers were attached for various reasons, but I knew that the fire was dimly lit by funny posts, emotional rants, poems, and some cool music I might have put out for downloading by a guy named, “Drake”. Yes, that is reason enough to go to any blog. But that was not the purpose of TheLegendsLeague.

My goal was fairly simple – come up with a way to share my life experiences and views in a way that might promote the idea of recognizing our good and bad influences and inspirations as fuel to live. But in a world now grossly over run by ‘blogs’, the blogging world wasn’t ideal for TheLegendsLeague to flourish and grow within.

So this is where we stand, LL followers/readers/supporters – in a new format that brings me back to where I began 3 years ago, to what I intended for so long, and to what you all deserve.

From here on out TheLegendsLeague will provide those of you who remember it as it was, with “Updates” similar to the MySpace (*LL) era. They will be lengthier pieces, stories, rants on topics that I’d love for you to discuss, marinate on, and be influenced by. They may be stories, or they may be straight opinion, but more often than not, (like the good old days), they’ll be accompanied by music and a graphic of some sort. I will change the updates roughly twice a month, but unlike the MySpace era, they will be conveniently archived in the “Updates” section on the top of the page. The blog will continue to be updated regularly and you’ll be able to view it as usual with one great new feature – the “hide” feature.

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When you come to the blog, you can click on the arrows to the right of the page to collapse all of the, sometimes lengthy, blog posts and browse the titles. If you see something you like, click on the arrows next to the title to expand it, or simply click on the title of that particular post. Cool right? I thought you’d like that.

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You’ll also notice that there’s a navigation bar. Use it! I put it there for a reason. Back in the day the MySpace LL updates would disappear into oblivion once I took them down. It sucked because if you missed something there was no way to go back to see it. Now they’ll all be located in the “Updates” section. All of the compilations and mixtapes that I put out, along with desktop wallpapers of my designs, can be downloaded now and found in the “Downloads” section. You wanted it, so you’re getting it. The “Shop” section obviously brings you to the IdeallClothing Online Store where you can pick up all of my newest designs for the line. Works a little more like a website now, huh? Like I said, the blog world isn’t what TheLegendsLeague is about.

So what are the goals now? Truthfully, they haven’t changed. In conversation with a good friend of mine, Gavin Sheppard, he said that I need to remember that TheLegendsLeague is ultimately about me. After struggling with the egocentric nature of that idea I can fairly say that I’m okay with admitting that this site is in fact about me. But it is for you. See, the window was always open for you all to share your experiences and life lessons with me, and many of you have in private messages and emails. But it hasn’t always been widely known that the door is always available to walk through. I want you all, as supporters in my life, to feel free to hit me up on here and ask questions, question my opinions, pick apart my writing, suggest things that you’d like me to write about, and share your experiences right back. Yeah, it’s kitchy and it’s campy, and it’s treehuggingly cute to think that the world is gonna be a better place with us all being open and honest with each other. But that’s not my thing. I’m not a blissful idiot and I’m not wearing socks and sandles. My life hasn’t been the easiest one to live, but I’m alive. And so I share it.

I’m through writing in the blog tunnel. I miss the old days. And I don’t want them back. I want better new days. So here’s to the days to come, the future of TheLegendsLeague, and the rest of the story we still have to write. I’m in if you are. Let me know…

Love&Respect as usual,

- Bryan ‘be.’ Espiritu

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