Times They Are A-Changin'
Article By Steven R. Rochlin
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  One of the few constants in the world is change. While virtually no one can change the world, we may be able to make changes around us to enhance our own life and that of close friends. The Enjoy the Music.com Review Magazine has also seen changes. During the past year alone we have hired many well-respected writers to enhance and diversify the information we provide our readership. We must be making the correct changes as we have been growing at a phenomenal rate! Of course there are more changes that need to be made.

It is now time for me to step aside, per se, to help the magazine flourish. To put it bluntly, the vast amount of behind the scenes work needs more attention. We have the duty of procuring and organizing equipment for our reviewers, editing of the incoming articles, webmastering the articles for the Internet, web server hardware/software maintenance... and many other duties. While i have been handling virtually all of the aforementioned duties, various equipment and music reviews have also been part of my workload. In order to insure the viability and cohesiveness of the Enjoy the Music.com Review Magazine, it is time i step back from reviewing and pledge more attention to the business end of things.

This is not to say there will never be an equipment or music review by yours truly. Far from it! Each month i shall have an editorial and from time to time various review will come forth. As the Enjoy the Music.com™ Review Magazine is well staffed, you may hardly notice my absence. In my humble opinion this is a good thing. It shows we have the quality and quantity of talented writers within our staff.

In fact i am once again very proud to announce yet another well-respected writer coming aboard this month. One who is very well known within the online audiophile community. May i take this moment to welcome Srajan Ebaen to our comprehensive staff of writers. Srajan will be assisting with some of the behind the scenes work while also writing his monthly Ear Wax column and providing international music reviews within the Global Caravan section.

Getting back to my duties, the main focus here for enhancing the Enjoy the Music.com™ website. Soon we will have yet another print magazine partnering with us plus many other goodies coming in 2002. While i am not at liberty to give details at this time, rest assured that as many of you feel we did an impressive job in 2001 so far, 2002 will see a continuation of our growth. As such someone needs to take charge and dedicate themselves to insuring all runs smoothly. That's my job.

i would like to end this editorial by thanking you, our loyal readership, for all your support over the many years Enjoy the Music.com™ has been in existence. For it is within your letters, positive comments and constructive criticisms that have helped us grow stronger. Of course no one really knows where all our growth may lead. Many of you have suggested we take our efforts into the print medium. Today i am proud to say we have the staff and resources to commit to such an effort. To quote a song by the 80's band Missing Persons "Life is so strange when you don't know. How can you tell where you're going to? You can't be sure of any situation. Something could change and then you won't know." Of course in the end what really matters is that you...

Enjoy the Music ("Changes" by David Bowie right now),

Steven R. Rochlin

 

"I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older

Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time"