Exec Corner: Staying positive about the future
So I'm done here eh? Last call, closing time, it's my personal 2 a.m. In a few short weeks I'm going to be thrown out the door here at FSU with no job, no nothin', other than a band, a few stray boxes of once on sale KD, and a Music Industry Arts diploma of course.
A couple weeks ago I wrote about how I'm going to be doing the band thing, and my uncertainty and anticipation for that. But there's more to it than just disillusion and poverty; I may have left that part out. Actually, for some reason the negative side of me has come out in every article I wrote this year. Maybe this is because what's good is great, and doesn't need to be analyzed, while the frustration and progressive jadedness warrants a constant mulling over. But this is my last chance to write in “Exec's Corner,” so here's a little positivity, an article I might just show my mom.
This year was a challenge and a serious rush. I'm going to be lucky to take some invaluable nuggets of wisdom from Fanshawe, the MIA program and the FSU. I have a much clearer idea of where I stand, what I stand for and what I can't stand. I've met people from so many different spots in life, from whom I've gained invaluable perspective.
Being here in London, studying, playing and booking music all year has put me exactly where I belong. I've entered into a surreal phase where life seems to grow like grass, and people affect me like a cold glass of water…I've also become intolerably vague. Days play out like beautiful songs, and weeks turn into romantic sonatas of love and life, and don't even ask me to describe the months. I've stopped to reflect every time I saw a mirror, and cast a new shadow every time the sun went down. My skin seems to have taken on a new, cultured hue of still-quite-white-indeed, and I've got a few more, well-earned gray hairs. I've been soaking in the Epsom salts of true friendship, while short-lived love has thickened my skin. Doubt has made way for confidence, and fear is replaced with unbridled enthusiasm. I don't stop to wonder how I'll get it all done anymore; instead I simply look forward to starting something new as soon as possible.
So, there you have it, two years here and I let a little positivity sneak out. My stint here in London has been truly life changing, and I look forward to working out all the angles I've learned to calculate.
Check out my band at myspace.com/thehooliesnatchband, we rock. And most importantly, good luck to the newbie Sean Russell, you'll have a blast next year filling the little ass-groove I put in my old desk chair.
A couple weeks ago I wrote about how I'm going to be doing the band thing, and my uncertainty and anticipation for that. But there's more to it than just disillusion and poverty; I may have left that part out. Actually, for some reason the negative side of me has come out in every article I wrote this year. Maybe this is because what's good is great, and doesn't need to be analyzed, while the frustration and progressive jadedness warrants a constant mulling over. But this is my last chance to write in “Exec's Corner,” so here's a little positivity, an article I might just show my mom.
This year was a challenge and a serious rush. I'm going to be lucky to take some invaluable nuggets of wisdom from Fanshawe, the MIA program and the FSU. I have a much clearer idea of where I stand, what I stand for and what I can't stand. I've met people from so many different spots in life, from whom I've gained invaluable perspective.
Being here in London, studying, playing and booking music all year has put me exactly where I belong. I've entered into a surreal phase where life seems to grow like grass, and people affect me like a cold glass of water…I've also become intolerably vague. Days play out like beautiful songs, and weeks turn into romantic sonatas of love and life, and don't even ask me to describe the months. I've stopped to reflect every time I saw a mirror, and cast a new shadow every time the sun went down. My skin seems to have taken on a new, cultured hue of still-quite-white-indeed, and I've got a few more, well-earned gray hairs. I've been soaking in the Epsom salts of true friendship, while short-lived love has thickened my skin. Doubt has made way for confidence, and fear is replaced with unbridled enthusiasm. I don't stop to wonder how I'll get it all done anymore; instead I simply look forward to starting something new as soon as possible.
So, there you have it, two years here and I let a little positivity sneak out. My stint here in London has been truly life changing, and I look forward to working out all the angles I've learned to calculate.
Check out my band at myspace.com/thehooliesnatchband, we rock. And most importantly, good luck to the newbie Sean Russell, you'll have a blast next year filling the little ass-groove I put in my old desk chair.
