So it's kind of weird when you think about it... The little things you remember and the big things you forget, the choices you make consciously and unconsciously all affect you relationships with others people. Sometimes one of the parties involved can have no idea that the dynamic is the way it is, and other times i can be painfully obvious to both which creates an atmosphere that both know needs to be addressed yet neither knows how to yet.Of course ladies and gentle folk I am alluding to a presence that has been ever too obvious in several of our lives today. It splits friend groups and brings to light things you never knew you knew about yourself or others. It is...
The album writing process.
Contrary to popular belief I did not name this blog because it was the only profession that started with a B that I could remember. I do play bass and I'm in a band, and we write.. um... sporadically to put it nicely. So back in October of 2015 it was decided that December 2015 would be a good time to record our new EP... (@fontsfrom2015 ....HA YOU ARE WRONG) It was a good time to write music, in fact I believe what we wrote is some of the best we've ever written, but the time it took to write I think is where the crap hit the fan. With three members in college getting ideas together for songs before December was hard enough, toss in a broken guitar and some money issues and you have my final week of 2015. It was a sight to behold because out of mental physical and emotional exhaustion came some fan-freakin-tastic music that we are really proud of, But man did it come at a price of some late night arguments and probably more than a few lines being crossed.
But why should you, the carefree reader of this really obscure and quite nonsensical blog, care?
We because I'm a firm believer that music is a reflection of the human soul and condition and that listening and making and singing along to music are some of the easiest ways to get to know who people are at their core. That's why people's musical tastes change with time yet there are go-to's for people that can always get a knowing nod of approval. So basically what today's round about lesson comes back to is that if there is some stuff you're going through, try to use some music to figure it out. Not in the "Say Anything" kind of way where you put your every hope on a single longshot connection. Try to look into what that person, and yourself are really all about and weigh your options from there. This past winter I think my band and I exercised some demons only to open some new issues up to the light. But that's always the way it's going to be.
Semi-related to this is my realization about TV shows. You are always going to finish a TV show upset, especially a Sit Com for one simple reason. Happiness is boring, short fleeting moments are memorable sure, but sustained happiness of couples and groups are boring to audiences so there will always be another break up or back stab or something of that nature. And life is a lot like that, every decision you make will solve some problems and create some new ones, the forever running TV show of our lives will always have great character development with a pretty average plot and some twists and surprise guest stars that really make it special.
I always find it funny that the first half of the seasons of a show are usually the best before the later seasons change some of the formula and eventually end, like I mentioned, usually disappointingly. Right now we are in the early seasons of our shows, the jokes aren't stale yet, in fact some of the best jokes haven't even been thought of yet. The plot can be chaotic at times but the characters always seem to make it out so we might as well enjoy the glory days before the director leaves after a cliffhanger 4th season leaving the new writers a near impossible plot to salvage properly... but I digress.
This post seems to have gotten a little off track but let me see if I can sum it up for you neatly with a bow: Life is complicated and messy and will rarely be wrapped up neatly for you so you have do some improvising and ad libbing but life is pretty cool because if you keep your head up and make it through your gonna look back and have some pretty cool reruns to watch.
Thanks for bearing with me through that
a pleasure as always,
Fonts
Maya, Maya, bo bya, bananafana fo fya, mi my mo maya, MAYA! (Told you I'd do it)
