February 24, 2007
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just watched the shawshank redemption, recommended by some =) very good movie, very well written.
took me a while, but i finally did the obligatory new year thing, setting my xanga calendar back a year to see what kind of person i was and how i’ve changed.. i was so different! didn’t expect to be so surprised. maybe it’s just the way i express myself here; or maybe it’s really who i am that’s changed..
but i really don’t like who i was a year ago. =s
a year ago i was also here in the same room in melbourne typing my thoughts, but it’s clear that things have really changed since then. i guess we’re always a work in progress. it’s amazing how so much can happen in just a year..
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was just thinking a little.. after listening to schuyler fisk, very natural, gifted songwriter. =) really look up to her.
it’s hard to make sense of the so many areas that one can explore in music, be in guitar or vocal technique, lyric or melody writing, vocab of harmony, band dynamics, production, etc. how could we ask for anyone to step it up another notch, when there’s just so many facets we can explore? how is it ever fair for me to say that our scene is not good enough?
it’s hard to make sense that there’s no clear given road for every musician to tread on, that growth as a musician isn’t necessarily on a straight line, that every musician competes to reach further, and that we sort of have to design our own path, not necessarily knowing where we want to end up.
but it’s rather comforting, at some level i must admit, to know that this field that i study in is not a rat race, to see who reaches where how quickly; but the greatness is in learning to respect and appreciate each other as musicians - but also first and foremost, as people who feel, love, live and lose as well.
i guess it’s important to always remind myself, that it doesn’t matter how many notes i can play a second, or how high and wide my vocal range is. it’s so much more important for people to see who i am, and hopefully, trigger some more meaningful thoughts, other than ‘man he plays fast’
makes this journey for every musician or songwriter so unique, so much more significant. regardless of what skills we lack.
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amen..