Post by CtraK on May 31, 2009 18:23:19 GMT -5
This may be a useful exercise.
1. Get a Partner, Hold Down A Relationship
Why not?
2. Get a Job That Isn't Hateful
My Dad, especially, has never seemed to enjoy his job. This sort of thing would be good to avoid.
3. Visit America
Never have, probably ought to.
4. Find a Way to Boost Self-Awareness
Whenever anyone asks what I'm good at, what I like, or what I do, I don't know. From my own vantage point, I seem to be ill-defined, but I know on an intuitive level what is and isn't me. So it'd be good to, at some point, be able to verbalise what the fuck I'm about.
5. Have a kid.
Pursuant to 1., I guess. I'm not going above two.
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And wild idealism is the operative phrase. Some of these might even be achievable, but in the main they're just insane things I'd like to do if the opportunity strikes.
1. Make a Proper Album
...as opposed to the glorified demos I've made up to this point, this shit would have some proper production sheen, maybe some lyrics, maybe even a concept (you don't make stuff called Poverty and Opulence without a progressive leaning, after all). And hopefully it'd come out on an actual label, however obscure - or at the very least done whilst having a manager. Or something that "legitimises" it.
2. Write a Novel
Like everyone else's bucket list, in other words, only being me it'd have to be bigger (not necessarily better) than everyone else's. Imagine Gravity's Rainbow crossed with War and Peace, almost certainly ending up being crashingly pretentious. Hence ending up in the "might skip" column.
3. TV Series?
If we're talking wild aims of things I'd love to do, it'd be to go for fucking broke and go all Renaissance man on everything. I actually have the idea for this, and it's quite well formed, but I can't see it turning up on anything other than an American network and that's an absurdly high target. Ah well.
4. Become President of the UK
Yes, President. You didn't think the monarchy would be staying, did you?
i. Write an Autobiography, or a Non-Fiction Work That Constitutes One
Pursuant to the rest of the list, I don't even necessarily want to do this so much as have the possibility of it - because who doesn't want an interesting life that's worth writing about?
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...well that's what I can think of right now.
1. Get a Partner, Hold Down A Relationship
Why not?
2. Get a Job That Isn't Hateful
My Dad, especially, has never seemed to enjoy his job. This sort of thing would be good to avoid.
3. Visit America
Never have, probably ought to.
4. Find a Way to Boost Self-Awareness
Whenever anyone asks what I'm good at, what I like, or what I do, I don't know. From my own vantage point, I seem to be ill-defined, but I know on an intuitive level what is and isn't me. So it'd be good to, at some point, be able to verbalise what the fuck I'm about.
5. Have a kid.
Pursuant to 1., I guess. I'm not going above two.
__________________________________
Brought to you by CtraKian Musicks
And wild idealism is the operative phrase. Some of these might even be achievable, but in the main they're just insane things I'd like to do if the opportunity strikes.
1. Make a Proper Album
...as opposed to the glorified demos I've made up to this point, this shit would have some proper production sheen, maybe some lyrics, maybe even a concept (you don't make stuff called Poverty and Opulence without a progressive leaning, after all). And hopefully it'd come out on an actual label, however obscure - or at the very least done whilst having a manager. Or something that "legitimises" it.
2. Write a Novel
Like everyone else's bucket list, in other words, only being me it'd have to be bigger (not necessarily better) than everyone else's. Imagine Gravity's Rainbow crossed with War and Peace, almost certainly ending up being crashingly pretentious. Hence ending up in the "might skip" column.
3. TV Series?
If we're talking wild aims of things I'd love to do, it'd be to go for fucking broke and go all Renaissance man on everything. I actually have the idea for this, and it's quite well formed, but I can't see it turning up on anything other than an American network and that's an absurdly high target. Ah well.
4. Become President of the UK
Yes, President. You didn't think the monarchy would be staying, did you?
i. Write an Autobiography, or a Non-Fiction Work That Constitutes One
Pursuant to the rest of the list, I don't even necessarily want to do this so much as have the possibility of it - because who doesn't want an interesting life that's worth writing about?
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...well that's what I can think of right now.