Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fail, Fail, Fail again and keep up the attitude

I got to see Dylan for a bit a few days ago, its still kinda weird not having Talyn around but he's handling business so I'm proud of what he's doing. Dylan and Matt got their first jobs last week working at Matt's dad's company unloading trucks and other equipment. Bout fucking time!! ha ha jk.Dylan's twin brother Clint had his traditional late night smoke sesh with the homies.
We argued over the side effects of smoking weed lol. never argue with a stoner.
You inhale 4x more tar with weed than cigs because joints/bowls aren't filtered. Higher amounts of Carbon Dioxide is inhaled with weed compared to cigs. In a sense smoking week is worse than cigs. I didn't smoke but it was over all a chill night. Came up with the idea of "Nug chicken", pretty much throwing some nug butter with chicken batter and baking it. then eating. dope right. million dollar idea, everyone would eat my fried chicken and get high ha ha ha. fuck you kernel!!
Talked to the SCM's sound engineer about recording my band, chill ass guy turns out he lives a few streets down from me lol. Had a legit convo on what would be the best way to record the band. Talked about how record labels aren't putting in as much effort in investing in bands with "some talent" and how they pretty much want a solid product "professionally recorded, mixed, and mastered CD" they could start selling. When it comes down to recording your paying for what your getting, like a tattoo. This guy is by far one of the best sound engineers I've come across in my music career, going to invest a little deeper in terms of studio time and try things out with him for Mixing and Mastering.
He sold his old studio to this guy named Jason, so we'll go there to track/record the songs and have SCM do the mixing and mastering. Got to get timing and lyrics down asap, he has a 1-2 month waiting list. Looking to release late October which works out for my clothing line. To make the day better, the VP at my work took out my division to lunch because we did well on a recent release. getting my job done. Free shrimp tacos, taste so much better when there FREE!!

So this past 2 weeks have been full of great failures ha ha, I bought the wrong screen sizes which lost me a grip of $$$, bought new larger ones and blew out the emulsions/designs, i missed my appointment to register my classes so my schedule is shit, i haven't had time to hang out with friends, studio time is going to cost over $1,000 for sure and nothing is saved up, struggling with creating the right song lyrics, I haven't had time to take pictures. FAil. FaiL. fAiL. and I still have a smile on!!
Its so frustrating trying to do everything and not getting everything right the first time. But thats how things are, when ever we fail at things we need to just "dust it off" and try to figure out another way to make it work. You can't just give up, and you can't take it out on yourself. We learn by making mistakes, they are a precondition for success. Keeping a good attitude towards failures and trying things again show initiative, initiative that can lead you to accomplishing your goal. Don't be scared to fail/fuck up, eventually you'll get it. If a pen isn't working, use a paint brush and see what happens.

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