22 Feb
There’s a real tendency in modern times to correlate everything. My ex-girlfriend was a devout vegan the entire time we were together, then we broke up and she turned into a meat-eater. Could you say I was responsible, somehow? By correlation did I turn her away from vegan-ism, somehow? Of course not. Yet people still draw [...]
1 Feb
The problem with musicians is they don’t conceive of what they could be worth. We let others determine our value for us ($1 on iTunes, 30¢ a play on Spotify, or our fans on Bandcamp choose what to pay, including zero). Not that any of us are worth zero dollars and zero cents. Nor are [...]
25 Jan
The internet can be a downright rude place. I think that’s why we all need real community. Each and every one of us ought to go out and find our community, somewhere on the internet. Or make it, if it doesn’t exist. Twitter or Soundcloud aren’t really communities, those are major hubs, multi-Metropolis-sized in members. Facebook is [...]
17 Jan
“I’m good so I shouldn’t have to give my work away for free” or “I’m good so I should probably be giving my work away for free.” It’s a bummer, because it’s not even a question of wether you give your songs away for free or sell them. Selling songs doesn’t even make much money, [...]
9 Jan
I had a post-creative-weekend-come-down. After an amazing, creatively fulfilling weekend with my podcast writing partner, I had a perfectly average day, if not a slightly empty, vaguely depressing one, in which all my pursuits were cast in a different, unappealing light. I had forgotten how to deal with burnout. People often talk about this, the [...]
I'm a multipotentialite living in Tokyo and embracing the idea of "process" in all of my skills, helping people develop a process for their work, while embracing the theme of "collaboration" or as I call it "co-inspiration"
How do people come up with this? Think about where songs start from. How often do you say to yourself “I’m going to make a song that goes like this…” and then have it turn out that way? More often than not, don’t creative works just kind of materialize? The best ones? And the best [...]
“I’ll whip up some dip if you wanna cut the carrots.” “Good. You got nuts?” “I got mixed nuts.” “Great. And what is this, cheese?” “Yeah. Oh, let’s go get a bottle of something, too.” “Nice, should we get two?” “I don’t know, do we need two? Let’s do one and then another when we’ve [...]
Would be a quote from me if I were addressing a bunch of young artistic types in an auditorium somewhere… But really, that is how I feel. That is what I keep telling myself. I don’t want to limit myself of confuse things by choosing a medium. I started NaNoWriMo basically thinking “I am going to [...]
The first spirit-crushing episode of college: When I was a freshman in college on the west coast, after half a year of not taking my class too seriously, the teacher sat me down in an evaluation and suggested I leave school. My professor, Chuck, asked me “What do you want to do? What are [...]
I have a theory about albums that they are the enemy of modern dance music. Why? Let’s start with reasons on why albums are good in general / have existed for so long… 1. Biggest reason: Sell-ability. People like packages, they like everything wrapped up together, they wanna get it all when they’re really into [...]
I'm a multipotentialite living in Tokyo and embracing the idea of "process" in all of my skills, helping people develop a process for their work, while embracing the theme of "collaboration" or as I call it "co-inspiration"
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