October 2010
1 post
Driving Lessons
Driving lessons are sweet, when you don’t have a car of your own. Some people drive everyday to get places. I just drive for the experience.
I got driven home by my instructor’s next student, and it made me feel a lot better about my own driving. She had a heavy foot, and veered to the right of the lane consistently. I gasped a number of times, even though I was trying to keep...
August 2010
1 post
Vipassana Meditation
So, another retreat leaves me with a refined outlook on life. I went on a ten-day silent meditation retreat out of town, where I lives like a monk and learned the practice of Vipassana meditation.
If you’ve ever wondered what life would be like out of the rat race, if you’ve ever wanted to be able to focus your mind, if you’ve ever wondered if you could last ten days without...
July 2010
3 posts
SongStudio.ca
I’ve been doing a song-writer’s retreat for the past few days, working with aspiring and successful songwriters, and it’s been fantastic. I love what it’s doing for me. These guys KNOW the craft. They don’t just say, “I like that song”. They say, “I like the rhythm, and the phrasing”. They say, “The song loses its train of thought in the second verse”. They say, “The chorus works...
Career Possibilities
I’m thinking crazy: become an entrepreneur. Go head first into your music. Perform often. Make content available. Be accessible. Build a fanbase. That’s showbiz.
The biggest problem I have is shutting up the voice in my head that says, “You’re just dreaming. You’ll never find it in you to do it.”
I couldn’t shut it up. Life just kept refusing to...
