Monday, November 12, 2012

first 50

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I've started a goal to write 50 songs. I don't have a period of time set for this, and I don't even know what it will mean when I've written 50 or what the next step after that is. I've just decided that if I'm serious about being good at sharing stories through songs the immediate step for me is to write as much as possible. So far I've written 4! So I'm definitely more than a stone's throw away from 50. Also, I'm including all styles of music in the 50 song requirement, with the exception that jams and other live works will only count if they're played often enough to have the potential to be performed. I'm really just making up these definitions as I go though so whatever there are no hard and fast rules. I just don't want to jam out 3 different ideas one day and have that count towards the 50, because that isn't what this is about. This is about trying pretty hard to write a lot of good material, and to make each song better than the previous one. We'll see how it goes.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

this is what it sounds like

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When heroes fall, I am not sure if I should feel shitty because it means that I too must, or if I should feel better because this hero is real, human, and by knowing that maybe I too can be some of what I look up to them for.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

still writing

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Routines suck, but I think I've settled into a good one given my situation. My days are pretty much exactly the same.

During the week

Wake up way too late, go to work later than I intended
After work apply to jobs for an hour or two
Go to gym after that
Eat
Play poker
Make music
Play poker again
Sleep

During the weekend

Wake up at 1
Laze around until I drag my fucking lazy hungover piece of shit self to the gym
Lift
Eat something delicious and terrible for my body
Make music
Rage

I keep telling myself I'm going to really commit to writing at least one song every day or every other day or something but mostly I just fuck around. Recorded and finished up a song yesterday though which makes me pretty happy. Recording takes forever but I need a way to keep track of the songs that I've made. I think I might just opt for videos with shitty sound to jog my memory if need be. I used to be completely against recording any of my music, and may never record the songs I wrote back when I was younger. However now I'm realizing that recording songs let's me create them quicker and have more being worked on at once. Tradeoffs...reality is I say I'm going to start at least video'ing the songs but I probably won't even do that and just trust on the good old noggin. Too bad it's pretty leaky, but I like to attribute the leaks to a spaghetti strainer design.