Saturday December 24, 2005
I know I just said I wouldn’t be posting as much, but I felt like writing. I do know that when school starts up again these posts will dwindle. Or maybe increase while I procrastinate. But the daily update of my day will not be a regular occurance since I don’t think its as worthwhile as thoughts in some instances.
So today I watched the DMB Stand Up DVD about the making of the CD. Members of DMB got together in some rural, isolated house with a sweet recording studio and just started jamming and put together the album. One of my favorite songs on the album, “American Baby” started off with a riff that Boyd just improved off of his guitar – then Carter added some drums, Dave wrote the lyrics, and Steffan and Leroi added the bass and sax to the song. And bam, you have an awesome song that protests the War in Iraq and makes me think about my own relationship to this country.
But I suppose that act of creating music is something that touched me on a deeper level, as in, really missing playing music. I really want to live a life with no regrets or not be upset about making bad decisions and choices in the past (oh I’ve made many), but when I went to Stanford, I gave up music simply because I could not go any further with cello or bass. But, I suppose I really do love music and I think I do listen to music in a different way than those people who haven’t played an instrument. So when I listen to DMB (my favorite group) or watch some added on bonus DVD, I really get excited and wish I could jam along with them. So instead of pining about the past, I think one thing I want to do in the near future is learn how to play guitar. And play it well. Ambitious I suppose, but I figure its a great way to procrastinate, instead of Facebook, computer games, and AIM.