About Apodion.net
Apodion.net is written by Z. D. Smith.
Most of the time he’s a computer technician in New York City’s East Village. That’s not really the interesting part.
Aside from that, he busies himself with playing cards, playing drums, and devising an impossibly idiosyncratic writing system so he can take notes that nobody else can figure out, just like Leonardo Da Vinci. He’s a novice Yiddishist, too.
This illeism is exhausting. I am, and have been, like nearly everybody else on the internet, a keen typography enthusiast. In more recent months, though, my interests have drifted from type to historical scripts; specifically the scribal hands of the middle ages. That interest feeds and is fed by the aforementioned writing system project, which I will someday, perhaps, put on the internet.
You might also see a reference or two to extreme metal, the genre umbrella of the various styles of rock music which derive from heavy metal. Another long-trickling project is my NECROMUSICON, a sort of combination mix CD / essay booklet that is designed to be a one-stop Intro To Metal for all of my curious friends. It has stalled of late, but it will come.
My online presence isn’t terribly strong. I have a twitter account, which I update with relative frequency, and a flickr account, which I hardly update.
The Apodion media empire is itself a slightly grown thing, all lopsided with rough and organic edges. My internetal logbook, the Apodion Dispatches, acts as a sort of way-station, or purgatory, for opinions or reports that I need to furnish from the corners of the world. And for a rare nearly real-time glimpse into the sensory experience of your correspondent there is Apodion Anaphora. All the Apodion properties can be subscribed to in one tidy, comprehensive feed.
Some time ago I recorded a whole album’s worth of electronic music, which is available on this very website. It’s free to download, and to distribute too, I suppose, as long as my name’s still in there. I’d love it if you told me what you thought of it. These days most of my musical activity is with my metal band, Flaming Tusk. As of October 2008 we have released our first EP, Abigail, for free high-quality download. You can get it at our website.
Apodion is a word that’s rather unimaginatively portmanteaued from the words Apollonian and Dionysian. I wouldn’t think on it too long. I thought of it real quick and haven’t considered it much since then. The same goes for pronunciation. Any reasonably derivable pronunciation of the word suits me just fine.
