Found thoughts lost

Too often, we take this life we live for granted. Things could always be worse.

Country Music

I didn’t really care about country music much growing up. Being born and raised and having lived in Texas my whole life I was at the very least exposed to it early and often. I never really have it a thorough chance until my last semester of college. I wanted to listen to music that wouldn’t get me too excited for my graduation trip to Hawaii because I still needed to graduate! I never really appreciated music in the first place till I started college and bought my first electric guitar with my own money. I started with what was “in” at the time and learned what kind of music truly spoke to my soul and I both rhythmically and lyrically. One of the genres I really came to appreciate was the blues. It’s very hard for me put into words feelings I’ve never felt that were evoked by music filled with emotion. There truly is “something” there, organic within the music, that one can only put in on their own by bending up a half note on a guitar string in the middle of a phrase that can not be synthesized by any man through any machine and software combined. Country music itself is a cousin of the blues and one could even say it grew from it or out of it. The more I am exposed to and listen to country music the more I am able to appreciate it and music in general.

A meaningful blog post

I’ve been meaning to actually write a meaningful blog post for a couple weeks now. Despite having tumblr on my iPhone for those moments when my mind thinks more critically, I have yet to post one. So much has been going on in my life lately and at times its almost hard to keep up with it all. I hope I can find more of these lost thoughts soon.

From “the Black Book”, 12.30.11

“If you want to live your life in a creative way you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce and image of you, the harder it is to continue, which is why a lot of times you have to say, “Bye, I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And then go hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.” - Steve Jobs

iTunes U

jhnmyr:

Sometimes I feel like iTunes U is one big social experiment to see how people respond to having a completely free college education provided to them.

In hindsight, ill probably wish I spent more time using this.