Music
I Suck at Everything.
I have pretty fanciful dreams for myself. There are so many things I want to be good at - mandolin, web design, tennis, guitar, photoshop, recording, writing - mainly creative type things. Since I have started working sixty hours a week, I have had little time for anything creative. I go to work for twelve hours a day, five days a week, come home, watch a little television/read and then fall right asleep. Wake up and repeat. So on my days off, such as today, I want nothing more but to be creative. The problem is there are too many things I want to be good at right now.
I only get decent at things, I never work hard enough to actually be considered good at anything. Back when I played trombone, I was fairly naturally gifted with it, and compared to those around me, I held my ground despite the fact I never practiced. In my junior year of high school, I decided I really wanted to become proficient with Photoshop. Years later, here I am and I only know the fundamentals of it. I started working hard on guitar playing - but when I realized everyone else wanted to be a guitar player, I bought a mandolin. Mandolin went well for about a month, but now I am too busy to play. I just want to be really good at something.
Today I bought a lot of music.
- Pixies’ album Doolittle, Robert’s suggestion as the one album that will forever change my life. One listen through so far and I am still gay.
- Cold War Kids’ Robbers and Cowards. Haven’t gone all the way through yet, but I dig the sound.
- Chris Thile’s older album, Deceiver. Haven’t listened through it yet, but there is no doubt in my mind that I will love it.
Now I am off to enjoy the rest of my day off.
Discussion
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Since when did being “decent” at something devolve into “sucking”? I thought being reasonably able to do something was okay.
Are you saying I “suck”?
um… mandolin?! so cool jon.
dont worry about not doing thing. Ive gotten over that. It just led to too many disappointments.. I figure.. if i wanted to do it bad enough, i would have already done it by now.. So itll happen.. until then, dont fret!
How are you listening to it?
Oh… and I have another life changing album for you.
You should remember though, this is the stuff I was listening to in college. I don’t think that makes the case you won’t be gay.
The only life changing band I could recommend is MC5, but they have already done all they could for you.
Jon, you ARE good at mandolin. Keep it up.
You’re good at not writing any posts for a month.
Do you have a bike yet?
As always, jon you are still an entertaining guy. Good luck with being creative, it is hard when you are busy. Watch out about playing the mandolin the girls will go crazy over you. Lastly, you don’t suck at everything, just most things =)