2010 is shaping up to have a creative/musical focus for me, and It’s got me pumped. Last night we were guests of the Ani Difranco crew at her show in Kent, OH. I worked most of a day in Chicago, so to fly back for that was the typical interesting contrast. I think it’s easier to not keep the different areas of your life in separate buckets, because managing all the little vibes you have around the subjects of your work, or your art, or your family can get overwhelming. Sometimes, good is just GOOD. It doesn’t have to have a music or sales or family label on it. It’s the overall picture that’s working at the moment, and that’s what is keeping all these pretty plates spinning in the air.
Hamell was a freakin gem and got us on the guest list for last night, and Ani’s sweet merch girl gave us the latest live CD. We ran into so many friends and former TwistOffs band mates throughout the night, and of course Ani’s set was some other-level, brilliant badassery. It all took me way back and at the same time got me very focused on and appreciative of who we are now, and where we’re heading. I wrote Ani a note as a friend of Ed Hamell, and made her a copy of the music that he recorded over my house in December.
She played a new song that said “If you’re note getting happier as you get older, you’re fucking up.” Oh, YOU. How dead on is this?
In a given week of dicey weather, travel, frantically paced media planning, sales, and all of this music stuff, I’ve needed to evolve my inner philosophies and mantras. As life speeds up and everything expands, so does the work we need to do to keep up with it. This is really interesting, because as soon as you get some new tool or resource in the mix to help manage what’s coming at you, it becomes outdated. We gotta remind ourselves that our work on ourselves is our most important work, and all of the other work in our lives is completed from our place of alignment. In fact, I hesitate to refer to it as work at all. It’s a labor of L-O-V-E babies.
I’m ready to pick up the bass and rewrite my future history. I’ve never been that person who hangs up all of their dreams to make money to support a family. I’ve made having a family my dream, and this music stuff is everything I’ve always been as a person. On my good days where I have my shit together I can show up for a wild day of work and love that too. What’s truly crazy is that now is the most prosperous, innovative and exciting time in our company’s history. We toasted our sweet new digs in Chicago on Monday, and we’re running giant ads in Advertising Age for our technology. Sales pace is 40% ahead of last year. Looking at these as separately occurring events is meaningless. They are all symptoms of some pretty kickass cosmic and internal alignment.
Sometimes, good is just GOOD. It all fuels different aspects of itself, because we are all one energy. I’d rather ride that wave than get crushed beneath it.
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