Catching Up with Myself.....

I've been busy setting up things to connect this blogspot to my Myspace, my imeem, plus finding a spot to host the audio and video podcasts that I have been doing. I FINALLY (almost) finished editing the first podcast I did, which is a review of movies that came out at the end of last year, which I will post almost immediately after posting this (so, pretty much, after you read this, or even while reading this, you can check it out.) My next one will be longer, and will be allot more thought out (this one was pretty much a fucking mess), and will be about movies I watched last month, up to movies I saw this fine month of February. Since I am always working, whether as a drone disguised as a forklift driver in our wonderful blue collar retail industry, or in the studio as a producer, writer, engineer, or a million one other jobs I stumbled onto (but still do a pretty damn good job at), the days just fly right on by, so when I realized that one whole month of this new year had already passed, I realized that I have been putting off too many things I originally intended on doing quite soon, but always put off as something that I can do tomorrow. Well fuck that. I’m not getting younger (or skinnier; I look like a fucking Gandolfini stand-in compared to before Holiday break), and I had allot of things jotted down on that ever-growing to-do list. Here’s a hefty sample of the list:

Lose Weight: I mean, who DOESN’T have this on their to-do list? But really, I wasn’t pushing three bills before November, so this guy in the mirror is looking pretty damn sad.

Finish Rap Album: For something that I started working on when I was still in high school, it’s about fucking time I close this up. I’m not going to stop rapping; I don’t think I could do that, even if I gave it a serious try, but I will feel more at ease with everything else that I’m doing, i.e. the indie album that I’m working on. I know that those two genres are considerably on opposite sides of the spectrum from one another, but for some reason, those are the two genres that I readily identify with. I will always and forever love hip-hop, for both what it used to be, and for the possibility of what it can become (and maybe become again). It is part of who I am, instilled in me from a young age due to where I come from and I love every aspect of it.


Complete “A Makeshift Romantic” project: I also am an undeniable romantic, so I indulge my soft side with my indie project. I love the sound, and the unorthodox regulations for what constitutes what an indie song is. I always joke that indie is the karaoke of rock/folk, due to the fact that you don’t necessarily have to know how to sing, and just the fact that you try is enough. And I stand by it, otherwise wouldn’t have tried to do it in the first place. As of now, it’s just a bunch of covers that I do in my spare time when I’m not working on beats, or recording anyone, but since I do in fact write pop rock and folk rock for certain high profile acts, I’m working on writing for myself. The problem with that is that I'm so used to writing with a different frame of mind (especially since plenty of the acts that I write for are women), so writing for me is hard if it isn’t spoken word or rap, but I’m working on that.

Complete Spoken Word Project: Originally, I was just going to have spoken word pieces as interludes in my hip-hop album, to divide the three parts of the CD. As I did more spoken word pieces, I just kept going after three. What started out at part of something, became its own entity. I have seven tracks, and I’m shooting for fifteen or so.

Capture all of the above on video, and edit it into a documentary: It’s not really for me to shop around; I don’t know if it would make for an interesting movie. It’s just for posterity and such: to fully appreciate where I am currently at, I have to have a good idea of where I have been.


As you can see, I have a lot to do, so if you can excuse me, I have to get started.