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Monkey Wrenched

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

MUSIC: Foo Fighters

Woody Allen once said, “”If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

It seems like a constant struggle to stay ahead of things lately. And as a so called “grown” adult I should know better now. If I was better funded I would pay for a secretary and a maid. And I would take them as 2 for 1 deal if I could.

I try am trying to stay on top of things and I keep failing miserably.

I have to find a way of avoiding people who expect me to know by reading their minds. If I could do that I would be better at dating because I would have won the lottery by now. I planned to have had accomplished some things by now. Like a few writing projects. A cleaner apartment. And things like that. But I keep finding out about the other things I need to do at the last minute. I always have to make last minutes adjustments. The reason is I am the last it seems “to get the memo”. And people wonder why I get pissed off. It is simple if you do not call and tell me than I have no idea what is going on. A deal breaker for me is to not even return a phone call. Or in this modern age an e-mail. I do not want to waste your time so do not waste my time. But the there is possible upside to not being called back. You begin to realize that your time has value and these people do not. And people who want to “read their minds” are definitely bumped to the head of this list.

But I need to continue on.

I watched the “The Last Lecture” this week. It makes you start to put things in perspective in ways you never thought about.

I also need to things that are inspiring and help to reassure you. And when you are the only person you know who is trying to do something it can be rough at times. I.E. being a writer. So you have to “do it yourself” more times than you can count. So I keep reminding myself with this series of videos. DIY or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist.

I want to say that I have a lot of projects that seem to be “colliding” together all at once. So to my regular readers, my blog postings may become a bit more sporadic that normal. I have been working a few longer scripts which maybe finally get done sometime over the next few months. As usual nothing will be posted until at least a first draft is done.

But for now it is “back to the grindstone”.

Reference

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I have decided to add a new Category into my blog. It is called “Reference”. If there is a book, movie, website that I keep mentioning then it will fall into this new category. This is something that I find must have some significant value if I keep mentioning it. It probably could also be known as an influence. This may also provide some possible insight on “where I am coming from”. (NOTE: The bar or the bathroom is not the answer to this question. At least not at this moment.)

The first one that falls into this new category is from the blog GapingVoid. There is an article posting called How to be Creative that I find myself reading about once a month. So this must be a very reference for me. In this case it is more like a coaching tool. I have also found something new on the site too. There has been a series of podcasts (about 3 so far) that I have found very informative. They are conversations about the Internet, marketing, collaboration and other things. Right now they are topics I am very much interested in as I try to grow my website. Maybe “grow” may a premature term to be using right now. I am really trying to get a grasp on the content and presentation of my website. Here are the links for them Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 if you want to check them out. And by the way I am always looking for podcasts like this to listen to during the work day. It makes me feel productive. At least I am listening to something informative. And it blocks out workplace gossip and people’s stupid cell phone conversations. I also need to be working on the “tools” needed to develop this site when and where I can.