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Music: I finished up a new [Philistine on the Sidewalk] track to celebrate the Chinese New Year! It’s entitled “Genius Is Never Understood in Its Own Time” and it’s an 18+ minute slab of psychedelic drone rock. Check it out! Fitness: The scale’s giving me two different readings this morning – 204.0 and 206.4, which is quite a significant jump. I hit my all-time low of 202.4 on Saturday, crept up to 203.2 on Sunday, and I ate about the same yesterday as I did on Saturday, so I’m going with the 204.0 weight. Nevertheless, I’ll certainly be diligent in eating well today and trimming the beer consumption. I don’t usually drink on Mondays, but it is a holiday. I should probably do some sort of exercise routine today, but I’m not sure what. I’ve got tomorrow’s figured out already, but that doesn’t help me today. Gaming: It’s not up yet, but I’ll have the revamped version of [Nintendo-A-GoGo] up later today, with a little bit more information on the River City Ransom page as well. I’m debating on working with the River City Ransom page some more or moving on to working with another game at this point, so there’s definitely going to be a lot more to come. On to déjà vu! |
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I was sitting at my computer working on the most recent Philistine on the Sidewalk track yesterday when all of the sudden, something had fired in my brain telling me that I had done the exact same thing before, even though I hadn’t. While I won’t deny that I’ve spent more than my fair share of time sitting at the computer working on music, there was something specific about the way the applications were opened and the way that the bottom right-hand corner of my desktop picture showed through. What I experienced can only be what’s commonly known as déjà vu. Frequency Déjà vu tends to happen for me fairly infrequently any more, though there were points in my life where I’d experience it about once a month or so. It seems to occur at points in my life where either doing something that I want to be (like last night) or when I’m somewhere I want to be – I’ve had it happen multiple times in Tennessee and on the Oregon coast. I know it hasn’t happened to me in quite some time, likely due to the monster rut I’ve been in over the past few years. I’ve been working towards lots of major goals for quite some time now and the problem was that I had a little too much tunnel vision going on in attempting to achieve those goals. Over the past few months, I’ve diversified my ways of getting there and it seems to have pulled me out of said rut and help me rededicate myself. Physiological I can’t say for certain on the previous times I’ve had déjà vu, but I was somewhat out of it yesterday. I was rather listless, kind of groggy, and having a hard time getting motivated to do much of anything. When I did find that motivation, I almost fell asleep a couple of times while working on the Philistine on the Sidewalk track. Granted, most of the songs I’ve created for that project put me into a trance-like state after listening to them a few times (which is part of the idea), but this was your garden-variety “I need some sleep, so quit working and take a nap” sleepiness that I’m rather accustomed to at this point. I ignored it (like I usually do) and a couple hours later, you guessed it – déjà vu. After Effects I’ve always found déjà vu to be a bit disorienting, but I generally attach a positive connotation with it, even though it’s not logical to do so. The positive connotation is one I heard a while back and I don’t recall as to where I heard it, but the thought is that when one experiences déjà vu, it means that they are on the right path in life. It’s a small reassurance that helps me continue on with the task at hand and knowing that I’m doing something that I “should” be doing is a nice boost. Also, experiencing this makes me want to dig out my NES cart of Deja Vu and play through it again. With Nintendo-A-GoGo up and running again, there’s no time like the present to give it a few plays and write about it! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on February 15th, 2010. |
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