Fifteen podcasts down. Fifteen more to go (I think) for season 1 of ze Two Guys One Trek.
I got work done today, did some apartment stuff, took a much needed nap. I always feel self-conscious saying that I took a nap, knowing there are people my age out there right now with kids getting absolutely no fucking sleep at any hour, let alone NAP time. But, listen you fuckers…that may be true and all…but *I* still felt like I needed to take a nap today, okay? Okay.
Have a lead on renting one of our apartments, so that’s good.
Josh and I were shooting the shit tonight, as we often do…in fact, that’s kind of ALL we do…anyway, we were talking about creating content. Josh was describing watching through his film, which I’m about to begin editing, and he was describing how watching it, he could remember all the moments that led to creating what he was seeing on screen…the moments when ideas first came to him, the times when he was writing where he was struggling or when the writing was going really well, the shooting of that scene and how many takes they took, and sitting in his apartment by himself editing it all together…all those moments in his life captured into what he was seeing on screen. It was a perfect illustration for me of why I create.
A lot of it is simply marking the time. Creating something here today marks today in time in a way that can then never be completely lost. Whenever I look at what I created today, I’ll remember, albeit often vaguely when it comes to the details…but I will remember what it FELT like to create what I created today. Who I was, was I was feeling, what I was doing, where I was…it’s forever connected to my creations. And that is a huge, HUGE part of why I feel so compelled to create. It’s like, I almost feel like I don’t exist if I’m not creating something…like my life isn’t actually happening unless I go through the process of marking the time with some kind of creation.
Oh, I also got to watch some baseball today, too. The A’s are back in Oakland. The last LAST spring training game…from now on, it all counts. I was thinking about reaching out to Joe to do an opening day podcast…but I have mixed feelings about it in that…well, quite simply, I think our team is going to be shit this year. There. I said it. I think we’re going to be a bad team. Mediocre at best. That’s what I see on the field in my mind’s eye. Don’t get me wrong…I still love my team. I just think the reality is that we don’t have a good one.
But…we’ll see what happens.
That’s it for tonight, the second day of April 2016. Gotta finish my Flix work tomorrow. HAVE to.
Night.