Thursday, April 3, 2008

Revisiting my new years resolutions

OK. It has been a while. I know. Look. Work is crazy so I haven't been able to do as much blogging here. If and when I am home I am probably doing something reasonably productive or trying to watch things on the DVR or the Deadwood DVDs Netflix sends me. Besides what gossip could you possibly get from this site anyway? Y'all know me. Jeez.

Anyway, lets get back to it. We'll start off by visiting an earlier post about my new year's resolutions.

The details are in the hyper link. Lets go through them shall we?

#1 Cook. A lot. Not just for me, but for Kristin and my friends.--------done. Almost every day now. I haven't gotten as adventurous as I should, but it has been helping the health kick tremendously.

#2 Become a better lead guitar player.----------this is the one I've been the most delinquent in. When I am making music at home I tend to be *making music* and not practicing. Shit. I gotta work on this fucker.

#3 Pick a concrete direction for Scream Bloody Virgin and finish a record.---------this got derailed in a more positive way. I enjoy the music I make for SBV but after a while making music in a purely solitary space is masturbation. I have shifted these energies to working with my esteemed friend Matt Lombardo on a project called Sky Burial. Some of you have heard a couple of these tunes from the "Seth Diamond February 2008 EP." You are going to hear a lot more about this project in the future. I am really excited about the potential and Matt and I work very well together. This is my primary non-Gods of Fire outlet right now. Pretending I'm in Skinny Puppy rules.

#4 Re-kindle some old friendships.---------Facebook is fun, no?

#5 Buy an HDTV.------done. After all the research I just threw enough money at my problem to make "features" irrelevant. It is 40" of pure awesome. And a PS3.------pushy, no? OK, done. PS3 was bought. And the Blu Ray version of Blade Runner.-----done as well!


#6 Pick a work out routine.-----done. NYSC has been joined, I'm actually going, and I do jumping jacks at home for an extra energy boost. I weighed myself today finally, it wasn't as bad as I had thought, and now I have a baseline for progress. Lets see if I can get down to my pre-day job weight. That would be sweet.

#7 Lighten the fuck up.-----I'm trying. Old habits die hard.

PS- Learn Sonar. For reals.--------I did myself one better. I bought a legit non pirated copy of the program and also purchased a 600 page instructional book. I am now a Sonar expert. Would like to continue moving up the ranks to be a Master, then of course, a Sonar Jedi. Sonar btw is the program I use for recording music on my computer. It is like Pro-Tools, which is a more commonly known DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

I'll try to get a belated MAIDEN!!!!!! review up at some point soon as well.

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