Everything Tagged With "personal"
Think of tags as the index entries of my blog, Scribtotum, and my podcast, Sonitotum. Here’s everything published on this site at this moment with the tag “personal.”
1st Annual Obligatory Annual Review and So On
December 30, 2005: So it's almost the end of 2005 -- is it necessary to do one of these retrospective / looking forward thingies? Sure, why not.
Other tags associated with this content: creative life, personal
Lifted
November 18, 2005: Recent fortuitous events have placed me in a remarkable position... after ten years and eighty-some days with the same company, I will be quitting what I have semi-sarcastically called my Cursed Day Job on the day after Thanksgiving. Very strange. I'm alternately very nervous and out-of-my skin excited. I'll still have to work somewhere... we…
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Hello, It’s Me!
September 23, 2005: ... I've thought about it for a long long time... Oops, wait, this isn't a Todd Rundgren song, it's a blog post, and long overdue at that! Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks, almost exactly, since I've posted. What's up, Matt? Well, work at the Cursed Day Job (CDJ) mostly, and red-pen work with…
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One More
August 21, 2005: Yeah, so it's about two minutes to two, been a long day, good day... and I have one more. This is how I do it... no blogs forever, then, when it's really worth it, you might get two, three in the course of twenty four. Maybe sometime soon I'll be more prolific. Now... well. Here…
Other tags associated with this content: personal, personal growth
50K
August 1, 2005: I just wanted to say that today, July 31st, 2005, at around 6:50 in the evening, I passed the fifty thousand word mark in Brave Men Run. I've never written anything this long. It's going to be finished soon. I'm happy!
Other tags associated with this content: creative life, creative process, creative writing, personal
Favorite Song Ever?
July 17, 2005: It's the Go-Betweens "Bye Bye Pride." Originally from their "Tallulah" record, it's appeared in various forms (mostly live) on other recordings of theirs -- most recently a semi-acoustic live version on their new disk, "Oceans Apart." I know it won't have the same effect on you, but for me, every time I hear it, my…
We Win
June 29, 2005: All right, folks! Here's a reminder that it pays to speak, to act. Earlier this week, it came to my attention that Nike was using a knock-off of classic, iconic Minor Threat album cover art to promote a skateboarding tour. Dischord Records never gave permission to use, never approved of, and never condoned the Nike…
Other tags associated with this content: community, diy ethic, ethics, personal
Ebb and Flow
June 23, 2005: Oy, right now, mostly ebb. I'm sitting here knowing that I should be writing, it's the time of day, the hour I reserve, when I should be working on Brave Men Run. That takes some energy, though, especially since I'm in the last third of the book and things are cooking... it's physically draining to…
Other tags associated with this content: creative process, creative writing, personal, procrastination
Sideways
June 15, 2005: After many "yougottaseeits," I finally spent a few hours to see Sideways I admit I've been gunshy; the last movie people raved about and insisted I'd like was Lost In Translation, and that was a piece of crap. No, it was. You wanna make something outta it? Anyhoo. Sideways was great. Nailed it. And what do…
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