fuck.
Had 3 hours sleep. Got up at 7:30am...got onto the net to do very last minute homework...and realised that I stll had sorted out my username and password issues and so going to school would be both embarrassing and pointless. Damnit. That was my second class so next time will have to be with a doc certificate. I don't feel like going back to bed so I''m going to stay up for a while, eat and hopefully have enough energy for the gym. I think I'll feel a little better after and will collapse on the bed and sleep some more.
On other news got Bellusira's new EP last night as a thank you for doing posters and merch stuff for them. It is full of awsome. Zeke does a guesting on track 5. Wait One Second would still have to be my favourite song albeit the far too simple and over done intro (like intro copied by so many other bands). But yeah track 5 comes in second with track 3 following. Track 2+4 are both on the less edgy scale and stray more into pop rock then the other songs. Don't get me wrong, I like ballads, but I even like ballads to be on the edgy side. I don't know...when you have a ballad and you keep revisiting repetitive melody licks and guitar riffs and it's slow it just makes me a bit restless. Like I know mroe could be done with it. I am of the opinion that love is complex...far more complex then pop music makes it out to be. Singers and bands express pop ballads in a really paradoxical way as the singer expresses the conflict and complexities of being in love and in a relationship and yet the music is written and performed in a boring and repetitive fashion, which I don't think represents love at all,
So I guess overall...you can see that the EP will be winning alot of the mainstream audience that's into pop/rock genre. But I think that was definitely an intentional decision made by Bellusira. They want the break-through. They want mainstream love from booking agents and, eventually, managers, so I think publishing works that are on the poppier side of their spectrum of creativity is defintiely not something that would phase them, even if they got shit about it from the scene, as it's where many bands are heading towards especially in this particular scene. You've got a alot of hard-working individuals that have been gigging for 5 years or more who end up constantly hitting their heads against brick walls because they still have to be a full-time musician and have full-time work to support themelves in a band.
Sometimes I lose the reasons why I'm putting investments first rather they artistry, and then I am reminded by artists who are struggling themselves to keep up their high levle of artistic work and paying off the mortgage at the sametime. In 5 years time, I won't have to worry about wondering where the money is coming from while I'm a working performance artist. I can safely say there is a high chance that after 2 1/2 years time after working solidly on my investments and growing my wealth that I will have the ability to be a fully self-funded artist. I won't have to ever compromise my work because of a funding body. I may never have to work FOR anyone. My only interest is to work WITH people. I am definitely privilged to have this. It's a huge responsibility to have what I have. Sometimes it stresses me out knowing what I have and how I have to use it. Well It's really how I want to use it. There's no pressure from my family to make it grow that large, as my family never intended that. The way that my family, in the past, has used it, is to do whatever they want to do with their lives, you know become an accountant, teacher whatever and use the money to buy a house. The money is security and nothing more..which is really not the way that I'm treating it. Given the fact I eventually want to be a full-time artist having these investments is especially useful as it will very much assist me in starting out. I expect that one day I could live off my artistry alone, however I can't really see that happening for at least another 7 years.
Also I am grappling with the fact that 50% of my wealth is invested or generated by companies that I have a huge issue with for obvious reasons...Paperlinx, BHP Billiton, OneSteel, Blue Steel...I must reinvest, but now is not the time to do that. I'm passionate but not stupid. It would be very unwise to sell now given how shit the stock market still is at the moment. I'm not saying I'm going to wait for a booming economy because that could take ages...but I may have to give it another 2 years, which is defintiely going to pain me. I guess as long as I do no dividend re-investing it should all be ok. But yes careful re-investing is going to be necessary...for feeling I'll get some good karma about my shares.
Also I'm hungry
On other news got Bellusira's new EP last night as a thank you for doing posters and merch stuff for them. It is full of awsome. Zeke does a guesting on track 5. Wait One Second would still have to be my favourite song albeit the far too simple and over done intro (like intro copied by so many other bands). But yeah track 5 comes in second with track 3 following. Track 2+4 are both on the less edgy scale and stray more into pop rock then the other songs. Don't get me wrong, I like ballads, but I even like ballads to be on the edgy side. I don't know...when you have a ballad and you keep revisiting repetitive melody licks and guitar riffs and it's slow it just makes me a bit restless. Like I know mroe could be done with it. I am of the opinion that love is complex...far more complex then pop music makes it out to be. Singers and bands express pop ballads in a really paradoxical way as the singer expresses the conflict and complexities of being in love and in a relationship and yet the music is written and performed in a boring and repetitive fashion, which I don't think represents love at all,
So I guess overall...you can see that the EP will be winning alot of the mainstream audience that's into pop/rock genre. But I think that was definitely an intentional decision made by Bellusira. They want the break-through. They want mainstream love from booking agents and, eventually, managers, so I think publishing works that are on the poppier side of their spectrum of creativity is defintiely not something that would phase them, even if they got shit about it from the scene, as it's where many bands are heading towards especially in this particular scene. You've got a alot of hard-working individuals that have been gigging for 5 years or more who end up constantly hitting their heads against brick walls because they still have to be a full-time musician and have full-time work to support themelves in a band.
Sometimes I lose the reasons why I'm putting investments first rather they artistry, and then I am reminded by artists who are struggling themselves to keep up their high levle of artistic work and paying off the mortgage at the sametime. In 5 years time, I won't have to worry about wondering where the money is coming from while I'm a working performance artist. I can safely say there is a high chance that after 2 1/2 years time after working solidly on my investments and growing my wealth that I will have the ability to be a fully self-funded artist. I won't have to ever compromise my work because of a funding body. I may never have to work FOR anyone. My only interest is to work WITH people. I am definitely privilged to have this. It's a huge responsibility to have what I have. Sometimes it stresses me out knowing what I have and how I have to use it. Well It's really how I want to use it. There's no pressure from my family to make it grow that large, as my family never intended that. The way that my family, in the past, has used it, is to do whatever they want to do with their lives, you know become an accountant, teacher whatever and use the money to buy a house. The money is security and nothing more..which is really not the way that I'm treating it. Given the fact I eventually want to be a full-time artist having these investments is especially useful as it will very much assist me in starting out. I expect that one day I could live off my artistry alone, however I can't really see that happening for at least another 7 years.
Also I am grappling with the fact that 50% of my wealth is invested or generated by companies that I have a huge issue with for obvious reasons...Paperlinx, BHP Billiton, OneSteel, Blue Steel...I must reinvest, but now is not the time to do that. I'm passionate but not stupid. It would be very unwise to sell now given how shit the stock market still is at the moment. I'm not saying I'm going to wait for a booming economy because that could take ages...but I may have to give it another 2 years, which is defintiely going to pain me. I guess as long as I do no dividend re-investing it should all be ok. But yes careful re-investing is going to be necessary...for feeling I'll get some good karma about my shares.
Also I'm hungry