Holiday season interrupted my streak and then general apathy took over. I always think that I should have something witty to say if I'm going to say something and yet I never do. So I'll just say if it ain;t one thing it's another. First my truck broke down and it took me a week to get it back into running condition, but of course I fucked something else up while I was washing the engine and then that took another week to diagnose and fix. I wasn't really into writing a post to promote songs that I had released. Then came christmas and I started to build kitchen cabinets for our house in La Paz and that has taken up most of my energy for the past couple of weeks. I still have to install the slides on the drawers and put the faces on them but other then that it's all done. Now I can finally clean up the shed cause I just keep depositing the tools in the doorway and you can't get inside anymore without stepping over a pile of them. I couldn't have finished at a better time cause my truck broke down again. I won't complain it's nothing major, just a couple of bolts that fell out due to a grease leak. I suppose that indicates another problem that I'll put off fixing for now but it means no more beach till the parts arrive and I get them installed. The joys of owning a classic automobile, you can't just go to the parts store most of the time to pick up the parts you need. Thankfully there's a pretty large community of FZJ80 enthusiasts so you can generally find what you need as long as you can afford shipping, which was more then double the cost of the parts themselves.
In other exciting now musical related news I bought us a couple of bidets, the kind that fit under your toilet seat. So fresh and so clean. As if pooping needed to be more enjoyable, but it is now.
Anyway you see no music related new to share. I would say since I've taken the steps to release music my actual ambition to play guitar and write songs has declined. There are multiple factors at play here; one we moved out of Tijuana and I spend more time out of the house, two I quit smoking weed which was always my inspirational go to and three I guess I had a goal before and so was push to write and record a song a week. But I've got three more songs to release and the year of a song a week is over and I'm out of recorded and ready to release material so I will have to start recording again. Even if I am not writing songs that I find inspiring I still have a long list of songs that I haven't even tried to record yet so there's no fear. I think I'd like to put together an album this time. There's just something about the collection of songs put together in the right order to convey the mood of where you're at at that time in your life that random singles don't have. Their all out of order as to when I wrote them and when I recorded them. Of course they all hold a time frame of being recorded over the course of two years in Tijuana not all of them were written there, just the poppy ones. I guess I was trying to be more upbeat. A lot of my music is kinda melancholy but I like melancholy music so this time around I'm not gonna try to be anything, I'm going to put together an album representative of where I'm at. Cabo baby! It's not really a place for melancholy so we'll see what becomes of this.