There’s no question that MySpace and emo go hand-in-hand — but blogging and alt.country? Leave it to Ryan Adams to make the Internet safe for twangy songwriters. Once a (too) prolific musician, Adams has been relatively quiet since a 2005 trifecta, releasing only last year’s “Easy Tiger” and an in-studio live EP, “Follow the Lights.” Seems he’s been spending his time online instead, streaming goofball rap jams under the moniker DJ Reggie on his official site, sending anonymous poems to Gawker and most recently, posting weird, occasionally affecting home movies on his now-defunct YouTube channel. The restless singer is already on to the next project: blogging at D R Adams Films, which kicked off Wednesday with a whopping 12 posts.

At the time of this writing, today’s posts include a new video, a response to Gawker (who won’t give the poor guy a break) and a tale of a day in New York, which for Adams included a trip to the John Varvatos store (“i don’t know how, i just ended up there”), a fashion faux pas (“i had on this amazing cobra commander t-shirt and an agnus b. sweatshirt and looked more or less like i did in 1999 right around when grunge happened to middle america after it got christian (wow).”) and a Hemingway-esque encounter with Jesse (presumably Malin, a fellow New York rocker and collaborator): “I felt old and happy as I sat catching up with my friend. Old and sat right within my own tiny frame. we talked much slower. and the hours were not threatening to me …”

Dude sounds pretty confused for a guy who spent most of last year talking up his sobriety. While his public freakouts are far from Britney proportions, it’s a bit disconcerting to see an ordinarily eloquent lyricist (and for my money, one of the best musicians working today) spill his guts online like a 15-year-old My Chemical Romance fan. With no new albums on the horizon and not a whiff of news in months on a postponed box set of older sessions, fans like me can only hope he’ll take a break from his “Big Feel Sorry for My Depressed Self Poopy Party” long enough to record a new record. It’s not like he’ll need much time.

– David Greenwald

Photo of Adams (or is that the illegitimate son of Colonel Sanders and TS Eliot?) by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for IMG