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…
#NewMusic: Wake Up – First Demo
So yesterday I said I was debating posting demos of the new songs I was working on. Have to admit I’m nervous, but here it goes! Wake Up is the first song I write with lyrics in over two years. It’s also the first song I produce vocals on, so it’s fairly raw. I’m so…
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…