Update
True to history, it's been over a year since my last update. I'm still living in Bethany, although I no longer work at my menial coffee shop job. In October, after a particularly insulting day of work, I told my boss to go shove it and quit. I'm now writing, freelance, for a local newspaper and, since DJing has picked up, living off my music.
I feel as if I'm finally starting to find a peace within my life, entirely due to the fact that my music is going well. It's awful to say that I can't hold a job without being miserable, but I can't. Perhaps it's a nice failsafe that's been engineered into my genetics to keep me safe from the dreaded cubicle.
I've met a lot of musicians and artists out here at the beach, and gotten some good networking going. The scene here seems to be stirring up a bit recently, and lots of people are coming out of the woodwork. Theres a nice energy, and support network; and lots of people are interested in bouncing ideas off each other. Theres a collaborative album in the works.
The solo project, as always, is coming along; but ultimately delayed by my hyper-criticism of myself, and general laziness. Also that my style has been evolving a lot recently. I feel like I've really crossed a new threshold with my art. I'm more aware of myself, and I feel as if I'm finally growing into my own skin. It's a wonderful evolutionary process, and it reaffirms that I'm doing what I am meant to.
On a lighter note, the new Apop cd, Rocket Science, is pretty good. It's definitely not the Welcome to Earth years anymore, but more so than with Against the World he's fitting into the new sound. Check it out
I feel as if I'm finally starting to find a peace within my life, entirely due to the fact that my music is going well. It's awful to say that I can't hold a job without being miserable, but I can't. Perhaps it's a nice failsafe that's been engineered into my genetics to keep me safe from the dreaded cubicle.
I've met a lot of musicians and artists out here at the beach, and gotten some good networking going. The scene here seems to be stirring up a bit recently, and lots of people are coming out of the woodwork. Theres a nice energy, and support network; and lots of people are interested in bouncing ideas off each other. Theres a collaborative album in the works.
The solo project, as always, is coming along; but ultimately delayed by my hyper-criticism of myself, and general laziness. Also that my style has been evolving a lot recently. I feel like I've really crossed a new threshold with my art. I'm more aware of myself, and I feel as if I'm finally growing into my own skin. It's a wonderful evolutionary process, and it reaffirms that I'm doing what I am meant to.
On a lighter note, the new Apop cd, Rocket Science, is pretty good. It's definitely not the Welcome to Earth years anymore, but more so than with Against the World he's fitting into the new sound. Check it out