I have the bad luck of being interested in too many things, and a person can really only focus on a few things at once. As such, I tend to rotate the activities and hobbies I partake in every year or so. Right now, it's screenwriting and movies in general, as well as youth group.
Recently, however, I've started to delve back into one of my other major hobbies: music. It started when I was approached by a few of my co-workers who also are musicians, suggesting that we all put our heads together and collaborate for some awesome stuff. I was all in, but the truth is that I haven't touched my music in over a year. I completed an album back in November of 2006 and haven't really done anything since. I had lost my music program when we re-formated our computer and since I didn't have any way to regain it, I turned my attentions elsewhere.
Well, thanks to my new, ridiculously awesome E500, I was able to get my hands on the program again: Propellerhead Reason 4.0. Now I had used version 3.0 in the past, so I was excited to see what this new version brought to the table. Imagine how dismayed I was when I realized how much of an effect one year of standing on the sidelines can have. Not only have I not done any production in over a year, but I haven't done any song-writing in that span of time as well. As a result, I'm EXTREMELY rusty -- so far my attempts at both have been laughable, and frankly very embarrassing. I just hope I can get to the level I had been at when I stopped...!
In any case, I'm very very very excited!
P.S. This doesn't mean screenwriting and film school is going to the back burner; I'm still actively writing both scripts I'm working on at the moment :) yay!
BLOG PLAYLIST
"Where You Gonna Run" - Talib Kweli & Jean Grae
"What Happened to that Boy" - Baby feat. The Clipse
"Whereareyougoing" - Musiq Soulchild
Labels: music, playlist, Reason, screenwriting |
