Something you may not know about me is that I love to improvise on the piano. It’s actually where a lot of my music comes from. There’s a freedom to writing without thinking a freedom to express anything I’m feeling without having to struggle to put words to it. Being able to play the piano…
Life
It’s right back to school
This year a lot has changed in my life. I’ve strapped myself in and have been getting a lot more serious about my career. Last year, I took a big step by applying for some teaching jobs I didn’t think I’d get, but lo and behold I got a position in the public sector. Today…
Goodbye Hard Drive
The past few days have been stressful for me. We had contractors come in to fix our windows (which I will talk about in another post) and so I had to disassemble my office and along the way, my hard drive crashed. Its pretty insane that my hard drive crashed since the hard drive wasn’t…
this is my town. this is my city.
I’ve been feeling like a machine as of late. I’ve gotten myself on a pretty strict routine to make sure I get all the work I need to do done. I do take breaks, don’t get me wrong, but even those feel like they’re routine and I feel like I can’t break out of the habit….
Settling in Our New Home
It’s a pretty insane thought, but we moved again. After only living a few months in our old place, we decided to move out of it to find a bigger space that was suitable for us and our animals. Our old condo was amazing, but with the cats running around, our chinchilla needing a lot…
Picking up the Flute Again
I was working on demos again today and thought to myself, you know what would be awesome in this song…? If there was a flute! I haven’t picked up my flute in years and quite frankly I didn’t know if I would remember the fingering for it, let alone how to blow into the darned…
Deficiency Syndrome: Back in the Studio
If you’re new to my life or didn’t know me when I was 18 you may not know that I was hired to write a musical in college. It was a pretty cool project that was developed around verbatim text from patients with HIV & AIDS across Ontario. While the monologues were fully verbatim, it was…
Taking it to the Piano
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a crack at writing lyrics. I know, I’ve talked about that quite a lot recently, and it’s mostly my fault for not doing it. I guess after my YouTube channel kept on plummeting, I felt discouraged and didn’t push myself to sing or write lyrics. (Shoutout to G…
Thank you Distant Star
With Oasis Love now being over, I have some time on my hands and am itching to start a new project. Tonight all I could do was listen to old tracks of mine, specifically from Distant Star. I know I mentioned in my last blog that I was getting down on myself with music, but…
Shake it Off
I find it fairly difficult to stay focused and to stay positive. If you know me even a little bit, you know that I’m easily thrown and get discouraged fairly frequently. On the other hand, I am someone who pushes hard to get the things that I want and works endlessly to get past the…