Listening to “challenging” jazz. Sipping peppermint licorice tea, which shouldn’t be good, but I’m finding it… curiously tolerable. Same-same for the jazz.
My life, too, of late: intriguing and unmoored. A coast-to-coast relocation for a gig that evaporated upon arrival. Seven states in as many weeks, for a job that was once wantonly stationary.
In the midst of all this day-job hubbub-ery, I’ve been trying to get back to… I’m just gonna call it “art”.
Producing-? I’m gonna call it “producing”.
Back when I was marginally convinced that there was an online path to murdering my bachelordom, I created a dating profile that stated:
“Daylight in tech, moonlight in film. Challenged by selfies, confused by duckface.”
I may have followed up with an inquiry as to whether anyone out there was not made entirely of yoga…
I’m still a bachelor (shock and awe), but “daylight in tech, moonlight in film” is perhaps the best I’ve ever done at defining how I’ve found balance between these two essential pillars of my life.
One effort feeds the nerd in me, the other feeds the artist.
(One effort makes the money, the other takes the money.)
But the balance has been off for an entire year. The day job has eaten the art job. I intend to use this platform, in part, to chronicle my way back to producing—my way back to balance. Perhaps it will reach a few like-souled folk on a similar path.
If you are on this path (or just enjoy the spectacle), I hope you’ll reach out here; share your journey with the rest of the class…
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Show Notes:
Spinning: Where? by Ron Carter w/ Eric Dolphy & Mal Waldron*
Drinking: Licorice & Peppermint Tea (TEAPIGS)
* The opening track, “Rally”, being the aforementioned challenge. The majority of the album is both accessible and delightful.
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