Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Everytime I think I'm, they drag me back in.

My friend PJ who got me into this whole blogging mess brought up something I had sorta thought about but not really. Blogging is sort of a cheap form of therapy, I agree on this and I think I am seeing the benefits, I come here and get all the crap out and that leaves room for the more important crap. What I mean is, I completed an "album" of sorts in my personal little music studio here, I intended to be done with recording for a while, but suddenly I am filled with new ideas, songs and parts of songs that come from nowhere. I suck and I make no bones about that, don't look for my songs on top 40 anytime soon, but to write something heart felt about a loved one, or write something funny about whatever it is that makes you laugh and then listen back to it and think "that's not really that bad" is a good feeling. I think I have blogging to think for that, I come here and discard the stuff I don't want or need and save the other stuff for what truly entertains me. I'm hoping the next "album", which I will probably start working on in the next week or so will be all originals, I promised myself after I completed this last one that it was the last one I was doing just to please friends and family, the next one is for me and it will have all of the warts and scars I tend to hide from people. My family won't want to hear it, it won't be nice church songs, it will be about opening my closet of anxieties and letting them out. It will be about things I like, things that make me laugh and things that make me hide under the covers, and that is what art is supposed to be about, whether it's writing, music or pictures or whatever. It's about doing something that pleases you and makes YOU happy and I'm getting there, thanks to this. On a less heavy note, AFI just did a top ten on top ten, the top ten movies of ten different genres. I'm a huge movie fan so I am going to be reworking that into the top five of Trey over the next few days, some will be on the AFI list some will never have been heard of but I'm trying to come up the categories right now so it make take a few days.

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