coming back

I've been off the blog for the past few years, because I wanted to spend more time playing Chapman Stick. Well, I did so - playing for a band that had me so sleep deprived I almost went psychotic. That band's been on hiatus for awhile.

As I write I am shell-shocked with sleep deprivation, so whatever I typed is going to be pretty much stream-of-consciousness.

It's 2015, and I have less than a year to retirement. A pretty minimal retirement, but it could be added to another salary which could earn me some more retirement. I'm thinking about going into video production. It's more fun than IT work, and I'm better at it. I have ten months and three weeks to make something happen there. I've got feelers out to an advertising company. Gore Vidal said that TV commeriials were America's only original art form (he left out demolition derby), so maybe there's an artist in me wanting to come out. A whorish kind of artist.

Y'know, I keep hearing about these emails & ads saying "Find your true passion" and so forth. Follow this or that method and you will find your passion. I've found mine, at the age of 11. Music makes me feel like nothing else, and the study of music is something I'm driven to. And I have very little time to do it.

So, what I"m doing right now is writing this book. It's about playing the Chapman Stick, and I might have a publisher interested. There will be a chapter on basic, beginner's technique, but mostly it's all about four-note groupings of chords, three-note, four-note, five-note, and six-note chords, using combinatorial math and orderings by bass line. It's actually a scientific book. It's exhaustive. I started in Thanksgiving, and I'm almost done. I was thinking of putting a lot of false notices in it, like "Mr. Verges, in the publication of this book, has just purchased his ticket to the insane asylum" and so forth. None of the Stickists on Stickist.com are remotely interested, but I'm feeling like Boltzmann here. I'm providing them with an intellectual superstructure that they aren't aware they need.

Next, big project: three note chords each with one dissonant note, resolved, above & below, with fingerings. But first I have to publish the first project. It's over 150 pages, handwritten, right now. It's basically writing itself.

There. That was a fun blog entry. Now, for a 5;00 date with my daughter. Her socker practice was cancelled, and we're going to have some fun for a little bit.