We like to plan better than the U.S. Navy because, as shown by the recent debacle with Iran, the Navy doesn't even plan on a rainstorm.
Yesterday was payday so that calls for a tactical review. There's endless annoying question of putting a camera in the light rack and / or of acquiring a four-beam laser unit. An additional question exists of whether to release another CD and it's germane to "The Sanctuary Song" because that song would definitely be on it.
There's no chance of an additional camera. Another Sony action cam would be about $180 but wouldn't be such a practical addition and a somewhat-larger Canon would be about $220. No chance for those.
The additional laser unit is about $150 and that's too much as well so that completes the tactical review of the hardware ... except ... maybe the existing action cam is not being used well enough. There's some thinking I should maybe not use it on my head because more times than not I have not aimed it correctly. Instead, use that one in the light rack. Maybe and I think it's worth at least a try.
Note: there are two huge advantages to using it as a head cam. The first is the viewpoint moves and the second is that it's not looking at me. We shall see.
Epiphany: continue filming after the song is completed. Put a camera in the light rack after using it as a head cam and then film some more to use clips from up there to use as fills. The same could be true of the other cams as well. With a floor marker, I'll know where to stand ... so long as I can see the damn thing.
The remaining is about releasing the "Ride the Dragon" CD for $80 and this is possibly feasible. I know already I will shred the existing content of it because my biggest consideration is getting "The Sanctuary Song" onto it and anything else on the CD has to meet that standard or it goes overboard.
These considerations are of significance because, amazingly enough, the lottery didn't exactly bring fame and fortune to the Rockhouse. We're not entirely sure but it appeared, out of five tickets, not a single number matched. This may go some distance toward explaining why it has been years since buying a previous lottery ticket.
(Ed: are you just making another Blackstar?)
The question assumes this effort only just started. I admire tremendously what David Bowie has just done because it goes beyond Dylan Thomas and raging against the dark night. There is hardly ever any point in rage but there is always a need for your passion and David Bowie gave us and himself that in a final blazing display of his passion.
Paul Delph has been mentioned multiple times here for doing the same thing and that was the first Dylan Thomas lesson in my life. If you're really screwed, all the more reason to stand up and play until you just can't stand up anymore.
Neither of those men were raging against the night but they dayum sure illuminated it with their passion and it's their lead I follow.
(Ed: are you dying?)
Only figuratively insofar as a lot of stuff isn't working all that well. There is inevitably a sense of finality but, in my own music, I don't see any particular depth in focus on the finality and what it is but rather what it's not. The Sanctuary isn't a reprieve from death but rather a reprieve from life in its most destructive form which kills people long before their allotted spans have run their courses.
Perhaps all this analysis really is morbid but I don't see it that way. My view is it has to be the absolute best it can be and part of the motivation is the probability there won't be another CD. The most important things are the other motivations, the finality of it just makes me a pain in the ass for all the details.
Yesterday was payday so that calls for a tactical review. There's endless annoying question of putting a camera in the light rack and / or of acquiring a four-beam laser unit. An additional question exists of whether to release another CD and it's germane to "The Sanctuary Song" because that song would definitely be on it.
There's no chance of an additional camera. Another Sony action cam would be about $180 but wouldn't be such a practical addition and a somewhat-larger Canon would be about $220. No chance for those.
The additional laser unit is about $150 and that's too much as well so that completes the tactical review of the hardware ... except ... maybe the existing action cam is not being used well enough. There's some thinking I should maybe not use it on my head because more times than not I have not aimed it correctly. Instead, use that one in the light rack. Maybe and I think it's worth at least a try.
Note: there are two huge advantages to using it as a head cam. The first is the viewpoint moves and the second is that it's not looking at me. We shall see.
Epiphany: continue filming after the song is completed. Put a camera in the light rack after using it as a head cam and then film some more to use clips from up there to use as fills. The same could be true of the other cams as well. With a floor marker, I'll know where to stand ... so long as I can see the damn thing.
The remaining is about releasing the "Ride the Dragon" CD for $80 and this is possibly feasible. I know already I will shred the existing content of it because my biggest consideration is getting "The Sanctuary Song" onto it and anything else on the CD has to meet that standard or it goes overboard.
These considerations are of significance because, amazingly enough, the lottery didn't exactly bring fame and fortune to the Rockhouse. We're not entirely sure but it appeared, out of five tickets, not a single number matched. This may go some distance toward explaining why it has been years since buying a previous lottery ticket.
(Ed: are you just making another Blackstar?)
The question assumes this effort only just started. I admire tremendously what David Bowie has just done because it goes beyond Dylan Thomas and raging against the dark night. There is hardly ever any point in rage but there is always a need for your passion and David Bowie gave us and himself that in a final blazing display of his passion.
Paul Delph has been mentioned multiple times here for doing the same thing and that was the first Dylan Thomas lesson in my life. If you're really screwed, all the more reason to stand up and play until you just can't stand up anymore.
Neither of those men were raging against the night but they dayum sure illuminated it with their passion and it's their lead I follow.
(Ed: are you dying?)
Only figuratively insofar as a lot of stuff isn't working all that well. There is inevitably a sense of finality but, in my own music, I don't see any particular depth in focus on the finality and what it is but rather what it's not. The Sanctuary isn't a reprieve from death but rather a reprieve from life in its most destructive form which kills people long before their allotted spans have run their courses.
Perhaps all this analysis really is morbid but I don't see it that way. My view is it has to be the absolute best it can be and part of the motivation is the probability there won't be another CD. The most important things are the other motivations, the finality of it just makes me a pain in the ass for all the details.
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