Only not really. Doing a lot of travelling over the holidays, visiting friends. I just got back from seeing friends in Toronto, where my magic DFTBA shirt detected more Nerdfighters! I definitely didn’t plan on the first real snowfall hitting southern Ontario and practically locking down the city, but fun and karaoke were to be had. On the train on the way back, I had a lot of time to think about travel and distance.
It’s been a great and thoughtful week. I love having lunch with people. I took on a new guitar student, and Woot Suit Riot is the artist in residence at next week’s Nerd Nite! You can catch Kayleigh and I playing at the Rum Runner on Tuesday at 7pm, and there’ll be some really great talks too, including one on Ada Lovelace and a set by Barry Carter, who is a hilarious comedian. You should absolutely come down and check it out.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about how to create a body of work.
Last weekend I bought art and played music! It was amazing. I spent a lot of time talking and thinking about Desert Bus in last week's post, and I've been realizing I want to write more. I want to make art, creative and interesting things, advice, music, whatever. Not whatever. there's a danger of thinking small and undervaluing one's own work that seems prevalent in artists, and I learned a lot about the dangers of doing so from artists there who are doing their damndest to make a living making things they love. I want to do that. So I…