See You Around 2010
I had an epiphany recently, one which left me with the unshakable desire to all but retreat from this online world. That means — hibernate this blog, remove all my personal contact info from all those social networks, stop ‘adding friends’ to anything, and - less gladly but quite necessarily - say a fond farewell to the many many cool people out there that I wouldn’t have had the privilege of knowing by any other means, but who are just too distant and too great in numbers to keep corresponding with.
Since finding out I was pregnant, I’ve felt my priorities drastically shifting and myself moving towards decisions like this, but this weekend it became strangely, suddenly urgent to my sense of well-being that I do this. My sweetheart Larry and our little one, my family and close friends - in real life - these are the people I need around me and really care about, and they’re all I have room in my life for. When the baby arrives, that will only become more true.
Am I going to keep making music? Der, of course! And when I have something worth putting out there, I will, but I don’t need to be an internet attention whore in the meantime to do that (more the contrary, in fact). There was a time when I thrived on being out there, talking to a whole bunch of people, sharing my experiences and learning about all the possibilities out there, but that phase has run its course and left me unfulfilled. Now I thrive on the private, personal, important things, like just being with my honey, going to the lake, strumming guitars in bed, singing to my belly, writing songs, spending weekends with close friends, talking to my mom on the phone, cooking nice meals, playing with our dog, making plans for our future, and just taking better care of myself and those I love.
As far as creative endeavors like music, same thing. I just want to make music. Not blog about music, not email people I’ve never met and probably never will meet about music. Make music. Play music. I’m returning to the simpler ways of the olden days, when music was really about the simple joy of making music, and it was done well, and for all the right reasons.
So this blog will soon disappear. Probably not forever. I may resurrect it (in some simpler form) around 2010 - or whenever I have something finished that I’m really proud of and want to share with the world. Meanwhile, thanks, everyone, for everything! We had good times! But things change (as they should).
I leave you with a favorite Irish blessing…
Skate Videos (2 Different Edits)
Larry made these new videos with more footage I shot of him. They’re neato. He’ll be sponsored in no time.
Shnikeys!
Sorry, people who left comments that were awaiting approval in the past week! Somehow I was not getting the email notifications to go approve them, and hadn’t checked the blog itself in a while. My apologies for the wait. Or the deep, soul-crushing sadness you must have felt if you thought your comment had been sucked out through the internet tubes of darkness, never to be seen again. This is not so. Your comment should now be visible.
Hey, check out my latest pregnant belly shot!
Belly Shot!
The Songseed Premonitions… premonition
Little by little as I can steal minutes here and there, I’m getting these old songseeds narrowed down, edited a bit better and fixing the levels (as best I can, these are very lo-fi recordings) so they’re more listenable as a collection. I’m going to put them up on my last.fm page as an ‘album’ soon for easier downloading and stuff, as soon as I have them all sounding good enough. But for now I thought I’d just start putting the finished ones up on divshare as I go so you can at least check a few out right away, in case you’re one of those impatient people like me.
Here’s me yesterday tweaking sound levels n stuff, just for you! Later kids!
