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I’ve been sitting here for the past twenty minutes trying to come up with something to write about and most of my ideas seem to keep centering on being rather unfocused and not knowing what to do. I still have all this stuff that I want to do with developing projects (musical and otherwise), but I’ve also taken the time recently to see how much time is being eaten up away from home. While I do use some of that time to work on projects, it seems that my focus keeps shifting. In the last month while commuting, I’ve created seven Philistine on the Sidewalk demo tracks for a video game cover album, but stopped as I want to build the rest of the tracks here at home. I’ve also started a two song original EP, but I’ve put that on hold as the tracks are likely to be about 30 minutes a piece and it’s hard doing demos for songs that long when the laptop you’re working on doesn’t have that much processing power. As of yesterday, I’ve started a remix album project for all of the original songs that I’ve put up on the Philistine on the Sidewalk page (001, 002, 004, 005, 008, 009, and 010 for those keeping track) and have a plan for a ten song album. I’ve already started a remix of Prophets of Doom (002) and any new original song that I put up on the page will be put into the remixing fray. Since there are generally a lot of things going on in these songs, they should be relatively easy to reshape into something new. I also plan to keep doing these albums as I know I’m going to keep putting originals up on the site for the foreseeable future and I’m sure I can remix the songs I’ve already done more than once. I’ve thought about remixing the VG stuff too, but only in passing. I also have a plan for another ten song VG album once the seven song one is done, though that’ll be ready nearer to the end of the year. Then there’s the chiptune compilation which is coming due in a few weeks and the original music compilation coming later in the year. See? That’s a lot of stuff on my plate, and that’s only on the music side of things. I’ve got the Nintendo-A-GoGo site to work on (which has an almost completed feature ready to go up this weekend), some more things to clean up at the Concatenation Records site, project pages to clean up and put up for quite a few of my musical projects, getting rid of a lot of things through recycling or selling them, yardwork, and there’s this little guy named Barclay sitting in my lap that really isn’t getting as much attention as he should get (or as much as I want to give him). At least there is some stability that doesn’t add to the lack of focus, but it does add to the lack of time that I have to do things. I’ve got the office five days a week, the gym three days a week (plus Saturday’s striking routine), this blog to work on three days a week, and finances to fiddle with every Saturday morning. I think I’m supposed to find some time to kick back and take a breather with the Xbox 360, but that still hasn’t happened since the middle of March. I liked to think that I was over having Mouse gone, but drinking so much to the point of throwing up twice (which is why I missed two Monday blogs) since he’s been gone is something highly atypical for me and it was due to the grief of losing him. There have been a couple weekends where I’ve been pretty good with limiting my consumption, and I think it’s going to be better from here on out as I purged a lot of it on Sunday, but I’ve really been unfocused since having to put him to sleep. Everything was finely tuned and on point even up to his dying day, but since then it hasn’t been. I still want to do all this stuff, but it’s hard when certain tasks take up so much time and there’s still a family life and social life to maintain, let alone getting too drunk to focus on doing much of anything (save for making music). What I need to do tonight before I go to sleep is hack out a list of everything that I want to get done this year, then do a preliminary arrangement of it when I wake up tomorrow morning. Some of these projects won’t have definitive completion dates (the remix albums for starters), but that will put them lower on the priority scale. I’m hoping that’ll help get me back on some sort of track and have me plowing through projects left and right. I need to get lots of things done so I can take a break! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on May 14th, 2010. |
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