The only reason to have good technique or anything is so that
you can jump off the deep end and hopefully not totally die. If you do,
you go out in a beautiful way. That’s my feeling about that. - Julian
Lage
This is a quote I came across in an recent interview with
incredible guitarist Julian Lage. Like most good quotes about
music, it has multi-faceted relevance spanning creative arts of all
forms. At a certain point, you just have to learn how to not give a
fuck. Trust the foundation you've spent years building (and continuing
to fortify/build) and just let that be your parachute, if you're ever in
trouble. Being able to blissfully, lovingly, masterfully not give a fuck
is one of my biggest long-term goals in life. I'm serious. . .
This weekend -like every weekend- is stuffed to the rim with
objectives to be completed. Every year I arrange a christmas song to
guitar to commemorate my mom's love of the holiday season and this year
it's Jingle Bell Rock. Not the most sophisticated song in the world, but
it serves the purpose. And because I'm a child of the 90s, I associate
it with a particularly awesome scene in a particularly awesome movie
(*link to home alone*). I'm looking to be finished with the
arrangement tonight. I'm a bit concerned about making sure it sounds
polyphonic since I tend to have a choppy way of playing...lot's of
staccato (probably too much . . .)
I'll definitely need to play the hell out of that over the weekend so I can record Monday, at the latest. Yikes. . .
I'll need to take a trip to the luthier tomorrow to get my guitar
checked out....and audition yet another expensive guitar. You might call it
an addiction, I prefer to call it research...
Other things? So many other things. . .
