Well my poor wittle blog here has been waiting well over a year for another post. Poor sad thing.
Okay enough time in the pity puddle. Yes, I decided to coin a new phrase. "Pity party" is an oxymoron anyway. Although pity puddle sounds like a little kid's way of talking about pee. Sigh. You can't win.
So lately I've been doing stuff. It's been really exciting, and I just love it. Some days I get up at like 8am (something I haven't done since college!) to do stuff! It's really great.
Vagaries aside, this past year has come with some ups and downs, but mostly gentle hillocks and small dimpled vales, with the occasional meandering stream or grand vista. I'm still engaging in the manipulation of sound(s) with complex multi-textured objects that people usually call instruments.
In fact, I've been taking some collections of sounds called songs that other people have created and that tend to be well liked, and have been arranging them for myself to play on these objects and make pleasing sounds with my throat in order to recreate the song in a style that *I* like. Once I actually save the sounds that I produce with these arrangements and spread them out on this communication and entertainment device called the internet, I will see if other people will like my song styles too.
I have also been doing a lot of things with bushes and plants and trees, mainly chopping them up into very small pieces in a variety of ways using other complex objects that could easily cut or shred one or more of my appendages if I'm not careful. It's very fun work. Also I have been fighting this one kind of bush that will give you an itchy rash that lasts for a couple weeks if you let it touch you. Or if you touch something that it has touched. So far the war has had about equal casualties on both sides, and a temporary ceasefire has been called. However a new advance is currently being planned (on my side, of course, because the bushes themselves are rather stationary) and new equipment and training and so on, and I WILL BE VICTORIOUS AGAINST THE EVIL HOARDS OF THE MALICIOUS OAKS OF POISON!!!!
You know, I think the style of this blog post is heavily influenced by the fact that I just read a bunch of comics at theoatmeal.com. Be warned, that site is NOT rated G. Strong Language and some sexual references are common.
Ok well, that about sums up my life right now. I think. Yeah.
