Ch ch ch ch changes

I find it wild how perspective changes with age. 4 years ago I was all about living in the moment, and really could not give a shit about the "future". If I was having fun doing what I was doing, and there was a reasonable chance I could do it for awhile, why not? I think the best way to understand my mentality is to understand the fact that I've recorded very few of the songs I've written. Not that it would have been hard for me to have recorded them in some way...I just liked the idea of them only existing in my head. What if I were to forget them, you say? Then w/e. In that way the song was more alive to me, and it changed and grew over time and possibly died. That, combined with the idea that the only people to ever hear those songs would be people that I chose to hear the songs kept me from recording pretty much anything.

That line of thinking extended itself to my wanting to improv more and more while geetaring. I loved the idea that those improvs would exist only once. I don't know why but it reminds me of all those anecdotes you hear about what a weird feeling it is being in a solitary place, how just having someone recognize that you're alive somehow makes you more alive. Playing music live is like that..having people hear it gives it life.

I've been making a few iphone apps with a friend lately. Here's a promo vid for one of them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qjk0oXxeo

I'm really excited about where these apps are headed.

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