“Rules? Here are my rules: what path one person creates will not be duplicated by another. No two people have the same tragedies. no two people have the same successes. No two people see with the same eyes. No soul can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea. A life isn’t borrowed hunks of other souls. Its maker gives it the soul and every action, thought and passion to express it.” Howard Roard + AAK

This was a little adaptation to a passage from The Fountainhead, definitely one of my favorite books ever. Enjoy…

Well, I’ll tell you first hand, some form of laziness hit me a few weeks ago, and subsequently, my room became a mess, I have 3 movies from Netflix that are unviewed, a stack of unread books, newspapers whose print never sees light, coupons unused, extra weight on my body, dust on my desk & bookshelf, etc… But tonight, for whatever reason, I said, let me take that baby step, and just fix up my room. Well, I did. And wow was it absolutely no effort. Then I was in my car, driving to and from a bar. I looked through my iPod, and I found this artist that I’ve meant to listen to for a long damn time.

Well tonight I listened to the fuckin album. And I realized very easily that in the circumstance that I there is something I know I should be doing, and for whatever don’t to superficially remain comfortable, I need to tell myself, get off your ass and do __________. I simply am much better off in the end. I complete the trivial task that otherwise was piling up with the rest, and feel less weight on my bok choy and lychees, which otherwise was rather a discomfort to me.

Simply, the comfort we often feel in just relaxing and pushing aside all else, ultimately creates a discomfort later on.

This doesn’t necessarily apply to all personality types, just the one that I have, and other adjacent types.

While playing though, I had an interesting realization that I’d like to share with whomever is listening.

One of my favorite tracks, and one I just played was the Sasha remix of Watching Cars Go By from Felix da Housecat. One fantastic track. Sasha is just too damn talented with electronic music. The track though builds steady, slow, and precisely, like a well engineered structure. My difficulty is my skills and ears are not to the point of giving me effective mixing abilities. I can pick some damn good songs, but knowing which to mix, and when to mix is something that I know I need to learn, and slowly am realizing the right and wrong.

As for Sasha’s track: it was just an amazing thing listening to and letting it build its way up. And for the listener, just following the path or riding the wave that it unfolds is an amazing experience. But tonight I performed a premature mix (I swear that never happens elsewhere) and threw in the next track. It was properly aligned, but stepped on way too much of the Sasha track. While I am mixing it though, the Sasha track is still building. All of a sudden I have the 2nd track entirely in, and the Sasha track is climaxing. But it is at a tansition point for the second track to where I had to remove the Sasha track. So I threw the fader to the right, stopped the Sasha track, and grabbed it off the deck to place it back into its sleeve. All of a sudden I realized all the emotion and build up that this track gave off this piece of vinyl. Potential energy. Its amazing what you can do with the things around you to entirely change your mood or perspective.

In Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance, the main character/narrator discusses his feelings on the motorcyle that he is riding on. The fact that it is this well built, thoroughly engineered machine. Any man could probably duplicate it, but what is so much more important is the person that originally created it. Who thoughtfully designed all its components precisely to make it function properly and effectively. It took a person who considered the all the variables related to the thing he was trying to create, and accordingly developed it, likely changing many things to his approach and his design along the way. He had the thought of what he wanted to create, and created it; he ulitimately made it with his mind, and everything he knew.

Maybe you had to be there, maybe you feel what I’m saying. But I felt it; and it almost moved.