Thursday, April 15, 2010

Half-Asleep

I haven't played out in a long time.  The high of performing isn't something easily duplicated...

Going outside of your comfort zone can yield some interesting and rewarding results.

If you like, it truly doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

This blog is still a music-focused blog, but I think it's at its best when I let other things leak in like basketball and self-examination and pictures of trips I've taken and insomnombule ramblings...

Calvin and Hobbes are awesome.  "Would that I could write like this more often."  In the Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary special edition, Bill Watterson wrote this as commentary for one of his comic strips.  Occassionally, I feel like this about my own material.  Except it would go more like, "Would that I could spontaneously create and happen to have the werewithal to document it more often..."

If you're reading this, I love you.  Because you've given me one of the greatest gifts you ever could.  Your time and your attention.  Not that I'm an attention whore (well, a HUGE one, anyways...), but I realize what an important possession time and attention is.  We can never get it back.  Ever, ever, ever.  Every moment is one less we have.  So we need to be picky with how we spend our time.  And the fact that you're reading this blog... wow, I'm so lucky...

This is also why Spam is such a nuisance.  No, wait.  Scratch that.  Spam is not just a nuisance.  It's a representative of so much evil.  It's the embodiment of impatience.  It's the manifestation of complacence.  It's the incarnation of inconsideration.

I can't do this alone.  I'm too selfish to admit it.  I start a lot of sentences with the word "I", which I'm pretty sure means something...

This is amazing and inspiring.

I wrote another song about Chase.

I spend time looking for the brilliance of others when I should be working to create my own brilliance...

It's hard for me to stick to a singular vision.  As soon as I have that direction, I'll be fine, more than fine, amazingly healthy and tremendously motivated to create art that will be what my audience wants...

Indie rock, power pop, power folk pop, Weezer giving Conor Oberst a foot massage in hopes of making the Moldy Peaches jealous... 

2 comments:

  1. You write your best music when you write it for yourself and aren't trying to please an audience.

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  2. Oh, and I love you too!

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