Newness
2009-04-08 2:30PM / 標準BLOG
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Who reads this?? I was just wondering that the other day. Do people
really read my blogs. I'm not the most prolific blog producer on the
web. Amidst my self-proclaimed A.D.D., it's usually not at the
forefront of my to-do list, but I love reaching out across the digital
world to share some of my thoughts. My life is an interesting up and
down of a lot of different activities that includes music as a large
part of that. I just got off a personal growth retreat with the Wright
Institute called Tracking and I got a lot of cool shit out of it. One
of the things I learned is that I actually remember a lot more than I
give myself credit for if I only stop and actually try to do it. Too
often days go by as a blur and when someone asks me "hey James, what's
been going on?" I draw a blank in my fog of memory. So it's a good
thing to think back on my day and wonder what did I do and what stood
out and affected me???
I do a lot of cool shit and often I get lost in just doing it all.
Each week I study wing chun martial arts, I'm a digital hardware
engineer as my day job (currently doing a project for NASA), take a
personal growth class, practice with my band Discofist, try to keep in
shape, spend time with friends and family, and of course keep up with
my independent music I post on my site. I never realized how friggin
involved every activity is!! Honestly, I wouldn't have it any other
way, but I need that time to reflect on all the different things I do
in my day so that I'm thinking about it as a person who actually reacts
to things and not just some robot that crosses activities off a to-do
list.
In thinking about my own acoustic music, I've got a couple things
brewing in the fire. My friend Jon has access to a studio in the city
and told me he wants to record four of my songs for me!! He's a badass
recording engineer with a degree from Berklee and a musical mind that
keeps going. I've sent him my songs that I recorded in my room (you
know the ones on the page - www.myspace.com/jimmythered) and he's going to choose the ones that he
wants to record. After writing a couple more songs, I'm ready to
record an album and I'd like to get that done by the end of the year.
Since recording an album with Discofist, the bug's bit me and I'm ready
to get that going.
Now, what else?? Oh yeah! I have a new concert coming up a week from
Saturday! April 18 at Bill's Blues. The time hasn't been confirmed yet
but I requested 6p.m. from the booking company so more people can make
it out. I'm trying to learn the song Neon to perform it. It's one of
my all time fave songs but it's a monster to pull off. I love this
place and Bill's a really badass guy. Even better, there's a tiny
chance I may be able to open for my friend Armando at Goose Island in
May. I say tiny because there's no promises and they may want a full
band which I don't have right now, but I'm sitting tight hoping I can
get the gig. Right now it's his band, Lovers in Arms, and a couple
others. I would LOVE to be an opener for that!
That's allllllll that's cooking for now. Let ya know if I come across anything else.
Late.
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