Yes.
I am growing convinced that years of education and schooling have led to only two life lessons that I'll be able to apply to my normal day-to-day: effectively dealing with mountains of bureaucratic bullshit without going insane, and time management.
These last few weeks, I feel like I've gone a bit insane. Work shot me on a trip to the Midwest and I lost a week. I mean that in the most literal way possible. When you wake up at 7:30am and work until 7pm for 7 days straight, any plans you've made to contribute something in the off-hours get swallowed by the abyss of an overly long work day. It was a sobering experience, and it's put things into a little bit of perspective.
I need to spend more time doing more. I keep telling myself over and over that I've got projects that need doing -- dreams that need fulfilling, but when it comes time to deliver, I convince myself that there's always something in the way... something holding me back because of x reason or y reason. I want to write another script or heaven forbid -- film something!, but I don't have the resources or the idea to spark the fuel into fire. I want to play music live, but I don't have the right equipment, or I'm not ready. And that's bullshit, because convincing yourself that you should stop because of factors you invent that are "beyond your control" only focuses your attention on those factors -- instead of paying attention to those things you can alter with force of will. And the biggest one of those that sticks out is time. I need to invent more time somehow -- and use that time to actually work. Yes.
Now:
New project:
At the beginning of the movie Contact, there's an epic zooming-out sequence that begins on Earth and ends at the edges of the solar system and beyond, etc. The music during this sequence is a chronological regression of radio signals that have taken forever to get far out into space - starting with the 1990s and ending during the first radio broadcasts from forever ago. The concept is this -- and I need y'alls help: I want to make some music that reflects what might happen if somehow those early radio signals degraded over time into something different than their original signals. If Buddy Holly's Everyday degraded and slowed down into something ambient and full of washed out drones and whatnot, what would it sound like? GENIUS?!?!?! I did this awhile ago with a Beatles song and I thought it sounded pretty neato -- so now I've got a concept (God help me) and now I need some old-schooly songs to tweak into creepy glacial thingamajigs. Anyone who thinks they know a song that might fit the bill should let me know. And I'll tweak 'em...
These last few weeks, I feel like I've gone a bit insane. Work shot me on a trip to the Midwest and I lost a week. I mean that in the most literal way possible. When you wake up at 7:30am and work until 7pm for 7 days straight, any plans you've made to contribute something in the off-hours get swallowed by the abyss of an overly long work day. It was a sobering experience, and it's put things into a little bit of perspective.
I need to spend more time doing more. I keep telling myself over and over that I've got projects that need doing -- dreams that need fulfilling, but when it comes time to deliver, I convince myself that there's always something in the way... something holding me back because of x reason or y reason. I want to write another script or heaven forbid -- film something!, but I don't have the resources or the idea to spark the fuel into fire. I want to play music live, but I don't have the right equipment, or I'm not ready. And that's bullshit, because convincing yourself that you should stop because of factors you invent that are "beyond your control" only focuses your attention on those factors -- instead of paying attention to those things you can alter with force of will. And the biggest one of those that sticks out is time. I need to invent more time somehow -- and use that time to actually work. Yes.
Now:
New project:
At the beginning of the movie Contact, there's an epic zooming-out sequence that begins on Earth and ends at the edges of the solar system and beyond, etc. The music during this sequence is a chronological regression of radio signals that have taken forever to get far out into space - starting with the 1990s and ending during the first radio broadcasts from forever ago. The concept is this -- and I need y'alls help: I want to make some music that reflects what might happen if somehow those early radio signals degraded over time into something different than their original signals. If Buddy Holly's Everyday degraded and slowed down into something ambient and full of washed out drones and whatnot, what would it sound like? GENIUS?!?!?! I did this awhile ago with a Beatles song and I thought it sounded pretty neato -- so now I've got a concept (God help me) and now I need some old-schooly songs to tweak into creepy glacial thingamajigs. Anyone who thinks they know a song that might fit the bill should let me know. And I'll tweak 'em...