Man, I *finally* found a rhyhtm today with my study.com work. It’s been a while. Almost four months, I think, or just over that. It’s just been that long since I’ve worked exclusively on videos like that, and it took me a while longer than I thought it would to get the feel of it again. Hopefully the quality is still there, though. I think it is.
No writing today. This last week suffered on that front, I’m afraid. But it’s a blip. I’m back on track tomorrow. And taking a bit of a break this week to polish up the ol’ Icarus script before sitting down, quite literally, with my novel and reading that beast from beginning to end. I’ve already printed it out. I have the pens I need. The plan of attack…which I should read again, now that I think about it.

You know, I was feeling rather intimidated by the idea of rewriting my novel, but as I sit here tonight, I’m fucking excited. Seriously. I can’t wait. I packed so much stuff that I love into that book…more so even than my pilot script. That book is ME. The most “me” that I’ve ever created, I think, and goddamnit, I am really, really excited to edit that thing into something I’m happy with and want to share with the publishing world, and maybe just the world itself directly.

Outside perspective on things not day-to-day Ira comes down to music. The Ho tagged me in this Facebook chain post thing, which I’ve always avoided completely. And I don’t mean that facetiously – up till this one, I’d literally never done one of them before. Anyway…it was to name the “top” 12 music albums that either first came to mind as favorites, or I suppose the ones that stand out to me the most influential or landmark-ish on my life. It was a question that really wormed itself into my brain, and I found myself quite unable to get it out until I’d come up with a list.

This is what I came up with:

1. Faithless – Sunday 8pm

2. John Digweed – Bedrock

3. 2Pac – All Eyez on Me

4. James Holden – Balance 005

5. Vitalic – OK Cowboy

6. Trentemøller – The Last Resort

7. Paul Oakenfold – Another World

8. Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling

9. Apparat – Walls

10. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

11. Markus Schulz – Coldharbour Sessions

12. Moderat – Moderat

They’re in no particular order, crickey do they really mark certain periods of my life. I realize looking at this list that apparently my most formative period of music development was from 2002 to 2007. Six years. If felt like so much longer than that, but it was only six years. 90% of this list is between those six short years. How crazy is that? This list of albums changed my life, yo. Was there for me in some really wonderful times, and some really hard ones too.

So, I guess what I’m feeling tonight is just really grateful to the people who exposed me to such wonderful music, and to the artists who made it all. I wouldn’t be who I am without you.