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It’s been a little over six months since I started putting some real effort into building new projects and developing existing ones thanks to getting inspired by Steve Pavlina’s writings. This feels as good a time as any to look back and evaluate how things are going with them. Concatenation Records While the label isn’t an especially new project (it’s been around since August 2007), there was a flurry of activity with it right around the end of the year with “A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One”, “Nevar Say Die! Compilation, Volume Three”, and two revamps of the Concatenation Records website (which is still three pages from completion). There was a new release earlier this year with Daemon9623’s “Fleshfeast”, but the label was rather quiet this winter. Things have picked up some this month, as there are remasters for a couple Zio and TEH LOLZ releases that I finished up a couple weeks ago. I’ll say that late spring/early summer looks to be a good time for the label, as “A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Two” will be coming out sometime in June, a seven song EP of video game covers under my Philistine on the Sidewalk project will come out sometime around there, and a four song EP under my Cyanidic Rapture project will come out around there as well. The fall’s looking good too, as “Nevar Say Die! Compilation, Volume Four” will be coming out some time in September, and I’m looking to get another Philistine on the Sidewalk full-length (10 songs) of video game covers out sometime in the fall. There’s the WCS compilation that’s still in the process as well, so hopefully that can get out before the end of the year. I guess the label’s kind of taken a back burner to some of my other projects over the last few months, though one of the other projects I’ve been developing (which I’ll talk about after the next subject) will certainly lead to more activity through the label this year. For the Love of Creativity The blog is a project I started up in December of 2009 to help me tune up my writing skills so I can get back into writing stories and books, and it’s been an invaluable tool for doing so, as it gives me a forum to collect my thoughts and write to my heart’s content. This is blog number 62 and I see myself going strong until the time that I’m ready to get back to writing stories, and I’ll likely drop back to once a week with a weekend post. I don’t know if I’m going to wait until the beginning of 2011 or if I’m going to start sooner, but I know that I’m still not quite ready yet, as there are a lot of other things I want to develop more first before getting to it. I must say that the blog has also been really helpful for me as of late in processing all of the emotions involved with losing Mouse, as well as giving me a forum to share most of the photos I have of him and us together over the years. As I mentioned last time, the photo blogs were kind of a pain to code, but being able to share my fond memories of him and all the joy he brought me was great. Then, there are blogs like this one which help me assess my progress toward my goals as well as lay the groundwork for new ones. I have ideas for new ones, but there’s one in particular (which I’ll talk about after the next subject) that needs to be developed quite a bit more before I start anything new up. Philistine on the Sidewalk Since getting the idea for this project after discovering Bull of Heaven in November of 2009, I’ve made 11 songs for it since the beginning of January 2010. Some of these songs are being used to score an independent film, one song is going to be on a compilation coming out tomorrow, and another song I’m working on is going to be on another compilation coming out near the end of May. The video game EP is underway with five of the seven songs having the framework done and I’ll be starting in earnest on it next weekend, because this weekend I’m doing Punchfest again and adding another song to the tally up there (soon to be 12 on the site). My production skills seem to get better with each song, but there’s always more to work on. Still, I think the last song I finished (not the Mouse tribute – one that will be going up tomorrow) is one of my best produced yet. This project is my biggest success of 2010 by far, so I’m going to keep working on it and doing my best to make it even better! The only thing that could be better is that the site needs a little work, but I know how I’m going to do that. I only need to find the time. Nintendo-A-GoGo Speaking of needing to find time, this project is something that I definitely need to find/make more time for. I’ve got a feature that I spent an earnest two hours or so working on yesterday, but the site fell to the wayside once all the stuff with Mouse happened. In looking through old pictures for ones of Mouse, I found some photos of me from times past that I can use for a new article. This is also the 25th anniversary of the NES in, so I’m sure there’s a bunch of material that can be covered there. I’ve got games that I’m working on that I’m going to review and re-review, but I’m not far enough in any of them to do so. Honestly, I lost my focus with this project since it was so new once things with Mouse started happening. I’m going to skip any new website projects until the summer at least (save for sites for my projects) and focus more on this site, since I really do want to have this site going strong. Investments I started investing at the time I started reading Steve Pavlina’s site, but my initial investments were hit and miss. Once I started reading more about companies and dividends, my investments have been much smarter and doing much better. There’s really not a whole lot to say at this point, since I’m still building my portfolio, but I’m happy with how things are transpiring so far! Through the CD Collection I’ve been going through my entire CD collection since mid-October 2009, and I’m currently between Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana. I was hoping to get everything listened to by the end of June, but that’s a laughable prospect. That said, I think going through all of this music has been really helpful for working on and developing the Philistine on the Sidewalk project, as it’s given me all these different musical ideas and sounds to get production and writing ideas from. It’s also helped me hone my ideas about what I like about certain recordings and what I don’t. I had a pretty good idea before, but now my ideas are even stronger. Anything Else? Well, my fitness is doing well – from 215 in mid-October to 193 today, and I’ll likely be hanging around the 195 mark while I build more muscle and drop more fat. I haven’t played any 360 in close to a month, but I’d like to. It could happen tomorrow evening if I’m not busy working on something else. Barclay’s working out really well, though he’s an awfully energetic little scamp. I can’t help but love the little guy! To conclude, I know that I’m at a point where starting anything new would be a poor decision, but continuing to build on what I’ve already started should prove to be rather fulfilling! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on April 30th, 2010. |
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