Y2K, 9/11, Bush stealing the election, the start of the Iraq War, Paris Hilton's sex tape... all of these things feel like they happened yesterday when people reflect on them all day and lump them into the same category as the time period that's just now ending. That means "tomorrow" I'll wake up and be in my 30's. Day after that in my 40's, and before you know it I'm dying of old age or in a Mad Max style war over what's left of the world's resources (I'm banking on the latter). It's pretty terrifying stuff, but in the meantime I'm sure this tablet everybody's raving about that Apple is supposed to release will make me decide life is awesome and worth living. Kind of sad huh? But I mean... this thing is supposed to be REALLY cool.
Moving on, let's look back for a quick second on the ways I was trying to improve my life in the past year to make all these days of paycheck earning drudgery worth it. My main "resolution" last year was to write more. I give my self a solid B- on that. This blog was supposed to be the main thing that'd get me writing and it's sitting at a measly 31 posts in 2009 as I'm writing this, so that definitely brought my grade way down. However, as mentioned in the last blog, I give myself extra credit for becoming a more active musician... One solo EP nearly completed, a few new Best Revenge songs, and nearly ready to record these two and a half year old songs. So this year I'm trying to stick with the same theme: Write more. I've got a fancy new journal from Jen sitting here ready to go and begging me to get back in to story, play, and lyric writing because all of my Moleskins have been converted mostly to work related notebooks full of lists of broken equipment, peoples phone numbers, times and dates, etc. that I rarely do anything creative in.
I also had what we call a "Pulse Check" at work the other day and the last question my manager asked was, "What do you personally hope to accomplish in 2010?" Wow! Good one Jimmy P! Way to catch me off guard with a twist on the old "resolutions" question. I told him I wanted to finish recording the Best Revenge EP/Full length since I've been sitting on these songs for years now and that was about it, but I've been rattling around some other things and some are totally tangible definites while others are a bit pie in the sky:
-Finish the formerly mentioned recordings
-Finish the Rotting Pizza EP (I'm on the last track by the way, which turned out being a dub track more-so that hip-hop)
-Ever since watching the film "We are Wizards" I've kind of wanted to do some Harry Potter related project because the "wizard rock" bands they follow in that movie really aren't very good song writers or performers and it made me want to take a crack at it. I also figure doing another nerd themed music project after finishing the Final Fantasy 7 one would help me to start to mold a new niche for solo music projects now that Best Revenge is starting to become a group project.
-That being said I'd need to read the chunks of HP books that I missed out as I read them throughout the span of all of the 2000-ought years to do something like that.
-Get back into fiction writing (finish a short story or play or something that I haven't done since my junior year of college)
That sounds like enough for now and it pretty much covers what I've had rolling around the past few days. Will I improve my grade from this year? Who knows!?
Stick around for the next 12 months to find out dear readers!
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