I didn't realize I only had a couple months. Let's see how many I can finish.
1.) History of Self: This is a big one. I have been saving trinkets from important events, random meetings, etc since I was in middle school. Perhaps since I was aware of my poor memory, I wanted to be able to recall easily the more vague recollections. That and I tend to assign value to pointless objects
Journal: I journal in times that require much thought. Combined with my inability to be consistent, I have journals (including this blog) in hundreds of different places. Luckily they're all packed away, just not in any particular order. I hope to make it linear.
Photos: As much as I love the technology generation, I have always been hesitant to instill complete trust in it. I hope to print out photos from years past and put them into photo albums... in case Facebook ever goes under (::knocks on wood::). I'd just hate to tell my kids "well, I had many childhood photos; unfortunately I never had a physical copy..."
Scrapbook: Maybe this isn't the right word for it, but I hope to catalog all the memorable pieces of junk (homecoming flowers, movie stubs) into a scrapbook of sort while I still remember the memories behind them. They say around my age is when your brain reaches capacity. In order to learn something, you lose something else.
Bookcards: A strategy to remember books you've read. Taught to me by my Pre-AP English teacher in high school. Thanks Dr. Tilley!
2.) Music: As I've posted before, I need to learn how to focus on the music, for the sake of the music. If I was completely honest with myself, a portion of my motivation for learning how to produce music has to do with hopes for fame and fortune. I greatly and wholeheartedly dislike being told I can't do something. Maybe I'm just trying to prove a point.
Here's a current status on the songs I've written and/or nixed (these names aren't necessarily the song titles, just how I remember them):
Vanilla Valentine - on hold. I really like these lyrics, but I worked on it too long to be objective of it, so I took a break.
First time - Nixed. It had a solid intro, but some of the words became too cliche. This was the song that explore the different versions of 'love' as inspired by Love in the Time of Cholera. It may come back, but for now I dislike it too much to continue.
Envelopes - Working on it. Just finished halfway through the pre-production writing, but haven't been in the studio (I'm still travelling) so it hasn't seen ProTools yet.
Ignorance - Working on it. I love the concept behind this one, but I've only just started
There are about 4 others that I've written down on paper, but who knows if they'll ever see the light. I just want to finish at least four songs COMPLETELY before the end of the summer. Let's hope.
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