Another breakthrough….
Today was a productive day. I am another big step closer to being able to actually do this thing. I finally figured out how to edit things together on my computer. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, and with a little help from YouTube I think I am now able to: record a podcast, retroactively record an intro for it, insert the intro in front of the podcast, and also insert my pre-recorded music (with the volume fading in and out!) which I wrote and recorded myself on my Les Paul. These are all good things and the result was something that sounds, well, professional? So that makes me very happy. And all before noon on a Sunday!
The next big step here, I think, is to figure out how and where to host the episodes online and then upload them to this website and to streaming services. Couple that with the creation of some social media sites and all of the infrastructure should then be in place to start doing shows. I already have about six or seven people who have said they would come do a show which means a lot to me. They are all great people who I think you will both like and find as interesting as I do. I also have some other folks on my radar so fingers crossed that they too would like to be on.
And now for a dose of irony. I love irony. Its fucking hilarious, usually. If its not funny it will at least tend to open my eyes to some type of truth and that is good enough. The paradoxical nature of it makes me stop and think for a second which can’t hurt. What was that old quote about truth? There is no truth of which I am afraid. Or something like that. Well that’s true! For me, anyways. My life has always sort of been an undying pursuit of the truth. Its what I’m most interested in hearing and talking about. There is no time for anything else! Its probably why, when I read, its mostly non-fiction, and when I watch movies, they are often times based on a true story. Truth is often stranger than fiction and if I can empathize and learn something from other people, in a real situation, that is much more fulfilling to me than say watching a movie about comic books with ridiculous characters flying around in spandex capes fighting computer generated dragons…. I realize, at the end of the day, they’re all telling the same story: an arc about a hero fighting evil, getting the girl, blah blah blah. But real life sometimes doesn’t work out that way. It doesn’t always get tied up in a pretty little bow. Life is messy. It is complicated. But in there, somewhere in the bullshit, is the truth. Clearly, I tend to choose the truth over….fun I suppose…. Oh yeah, right, the irony thing. So the ironic truth is: I don’t really like attention…but I'm going to do a podcast, have a website, and even make social media sites for it. I despise social media. I think that for every good thing that has come from it, 10 more bad things have threatened to destroy the fabric of our society. That may just be the grumpy, cynical old man part of my personality but the TRUTH is lives have been destroyed and the photos you took of your sushi have been compromised by Russia. Not to mention the crushing oppression of cancel culture. Although I am extremely curious about the world, and always willing to make meaningful connections with well-meaning people, I am by nature an introvert. So the quest for truth is perhaps the drive behind this creative endeavor but there are parts of my very being that are telling me this is stupid. I find it hilariously ironic that I’m over here trying to learn what an Instagram is….all for the sake of trying to tie it all up in the pretty little bow I don’t even believe exists… But its too late, I’m going to put myself out there. I just hope I don’t get hurt.