Some thoughts for ya

 

 

It's Friday night. I'm at home watching American Dad. Summer is starting. It's a summer of uncertainty. We're all watching the Hantavirus outbreak anxiously worried about a repeat of 2020. The economy is horrible. The people in charge are equally horrible. I need a distraction. You probably do, too. So here's some words and some DJ tools.

 I feel like I've spent the last year in the middle of a huge reset in my life. I've always wanted to travel full time, living out of a suitcase. I got knocked out of my comfortable seat in life about a year ago. And I'm definitely starting from scratch this time. But I know myself well enough to know I do my best work when my back's against the wall. I know what didn't work this last time. And I'm ready to try again. To create success for myself and my friends. To create a kind of community that doesn't seem to exist in the digital age. I'm sure I sound crazy. I probably am. But I feel more self-assured than anything.

 

It's late morning on Tuesday. The world is starting to come back to life after hibernation. Soon I'll be back in the mountains. Time is moving again after being stuck in a stand-still.

Someone told me once that if visual art is how we decorate space, sonic art is how we decorate time. Something I feel I have much more of these days. I'm trying to heal my nervous system, and that seems to free up the time, and get me more value out of what time I have.

 

I've been reading more, lately, too- The Book Thief is my current obsession. It's short, fast, aggressive, intense- it really captures the gritty, grimy thrills of the illicit life lived outside of the rules of society, both for good and for bad.

 I also enjoyed reading Graffiti on Low or No Dollars by Elberto Muller. Subtitled "An alternative guide to aesthetics and grifting around the united states and Canada," it captures a side of my country that never really gets seen or spoken about. A side of my reality that never really gets seen or spoken about. 

Honestly, a lot of times I think that's why we pursue art, or relationships with people, or go to other places, or do a lot of the things we do. Because we find these holes in our day to day life that never get acknowledged or fed. And we can either continue to ignore them and let them consume us, or find an outlet.

Longer we wait, the more intense the desire for that outlet becomes. And sometimes, the harder it becomes to find a healthy outlet.

What is a "healthy outlet?" Because I feel right now, as a society, we have a lot of sides to our reality that are not being properly acknowledged. Everything's been "weird" since Covid. And we don't really know what "normal" is supposed to look like anymore. Hell, look at shows. Nobody can seem to keep things consistently booked anymore- regardless of whether you're opening at your local dive bar or Post Malone. Can you blame them? Everything is unaffordable and everyone is crazy nowadays.

Where do we go from here? How do we heal as a society? What is the end goal of healing? Does "healing" finally involve us getting rid of the influencer DJs?

  

God, I hope so.