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.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
still writing
0Posted on 4:22 PM by eye2thesky
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.
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.
Friday, October 5, 2012
friday, fridaay
0Posted on 4:29 PM by eye2thesky
Fridays at work are funny, because it is pretty hard to get anything done. I think most people do very little on fridays unless you really have to, seeing as how our parking lot is half empty come lunch time and even the 68 year old man I sit next to is checking classmates.com in the afternoon. This friday I feel especially lazy, and really don't know what to do with myself. I'm almost so lazy that I don't even want to read reddit or check facebook because it's starting to hurt my eyes. I'm almost at the point where I'd rather just work to get the day over with quicker. Either that or I'll leave early we'll see
Monday, October 1, 2012
Last weekend, musical inspiration
0Posted on 4:20 PM by eye2thesky
Played a show last weekend with some guys that I've been jamming with for almost a year. This will hopefully go down as a pretty special show because that was the night that we decided to stop learning and playing covers. We started off only learning covers, despite our collective hatred of the practice, because of various time and skill constraints at our prior shows. The very first show was a salsa party that we started practicing for with one week of preparation time. Have you ever tried to write salsa? It's pretty difficult. Especially for most of us, since we are mostly american. The next shows were very similar in that we started preparing with only a week's notice, and with requirements that we play very dancy music.
I'm not sure what it is that spurred us to make this decision. It may have been that we opened for a bunch of ridiculously fucking good bands who played a ridiculously awesome show. Maybe we were all just sick of playing other people's shit, since for most of us we never played any covers before being with this band. In any case, I'm pretty excited to see what the future holds for us since this group has a lot of talent and a reasonable amount of drive. Perhaps the best part of all of this for me though is it's a way to use my mental energy. Work is still a soul fuck. It's nice to have something challenging to look forward to. It's easy to fall into playing a lot of poker since it's easy to start every day, no need to drive anywhere. I can see myself getting better and better etc. But I'd like to do other things.
Also might start working with some amateur rocketry groups sometime soon. Really hoping that takes off. I can see myself making the drives necessary to do it. Sounds so fucking fun. Man I am yearning for something worthwhile and challenging to keep me busy.
I'm not sure what it is that spurred us to make this decision. It may have been that we opened for a bunch of ridiculously fucking good bands who played a ridiculously awesome show. Maybe we were all just sick of playing other people's shit, since for most of us we never played any covers before being with this band. In any case, I'm pretty excited to see what the future holds for us since this group has a lot of talent and a reasonable amount of drive. Perhaps the best part of all of this for me though is it's a way to use my mental energy. Work is still a soul fuck. It's nice to have something challenging to look forward to. It's easy to fall into playing a lot of poker since it's easy to start every day, no need to drive anywhere. I can see myself getting better and better etc. But I'd like to do other things.
Also might start working with some amateur rocketry groups sometime soon. Really hoping that takes off. I can see myself making the drives necessary to do it. Sounds so fucking fun. Man I am yearning for something worthwhile and challenging to keep me busy.