This is just the beginning

Phases. Everything is in phases. Life shifts like the tides over years instead of days, pulled one way or another not by gravity, or celestial entities, but by connections, relationships, the waxing and waning of human interactions.

Small things touch, push, pull, inspire, destroy, fulfill, empty, and revive. Daily I find myself traveling a familiar road, but each new day is just that, new. To keep it fresh, it is important to remember, to reflect, to learn, grow, and understand what you do, why you do it, who you are, and who you will be. All the while keeping the connections you make with the people you know in mind.

This blog is a reflection of those things that push my thoughts, pull my inspirations, create my frustrations, and easy my fulfillment. Film, music, friends, joy, anger, pain, philosophy, and whatever it takes to move forward, learning and growing. Mistakes learned from or repeated; accidental or intentional, shape and mold the sculpture that is our limited being in this world with these people that surrounds us.

Do not fear (he says to himself), this is not simply for self fulfillment. I want to share ideas and thoughts that inspire me, or reflections that have shaped me, to be who I am, and approaches I will take to be who I want to be. Forgive, if you will, my attempt at eloquence, or, if you will, allow it for the sake of the attempt, and the hopefully interesting cadence and meaning that results.

My topics will vary from film to television to music, to angers, pains, joys, and beyond. For now I just introduce the idea of it all, to myself specifically, as I don’t even know where to begin expecting anyone to read or care. However I hope to build this as a therapeutic device to develop a sound mind, to act as a public journal of existence, one which is not veiled by true anonymity, but is however, controlled, and with luck perceived and understood as the truth, witnessed by the eyes ears and more, transferred through the fingers, turned binary, and distributed to the void of endless information.

Tomorrow, or sooner, I will talk about Deadwood; maybe one of the best produced television sagas in the short history of television. But first, I will start with this. This small little diatribe, and post a little music to ease the soul in the interim.

Music of the day (and quite frankly, so far for me, of 2010):

Boards of Canada, Live @ ATP (All Tomorrow's Parties 2001)

This band, for me, are masterminds of sonic landscapes. Their simplicity, downbeat tempos and clever and nostalgic samples are like audio anti-anxiety medicine. They are also the inspiration for the name of this blog, which is named after a Boards of Canada song "Everything you do is a Balloon". It would seem fitting for me to post that song, but for the sake of not doing what is expected, I'll save it for another day. Instead enjoy this live performance, the last live performance the duo has done.

A little more about them, from wikipedia:

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin. Boards of Canada's music is reminiscent of the warm, analogue sounds of 1970s media and contains themes of childhood, nostalgia and the natural world. Mike and Marcus have mentioned the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name is derived, as a source of inspiration.

http://www.mediafire.com/?aymmmt2jgem

1. "Echus" – 6:23
2. Unknown – 7:32
3. "A is to b as b is to c" – 1:26
4. "Sunshine Recorder" – 6:29
5. "Sixtyten" – 5:51
6. Unknown – 1:44
7. Unknown – 8:26
8. "Julie and Candy" – 6:14
9. Unknown – 1:30
10. "Happy Cycling" – 7:55
11. Unknown – 0:46
12. "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country" – 5:46