observations...

What matters

David — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:34:22 GMT

Now that was a proper show. Probably the most enjoyable gig I played this year.

Feels good, being able to lie in bed all day with nothing to do. Just for today, I always tell myself.

Unsustainable

David — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:41:44 GMT

I think the part I miss the most, is being able to hang out all the time and just talk about, quite simply, everything.

These things don't last, do they. Somewhere along the line, he ran out of things to talk about. That familiar feeling again - seeing everything unravel before his eyes, powerless to change anything.

Tired old stories.

All the time

David — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:50:13 GMT

Ever experienced this in real life?

Non-destructive methods

David — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:38:30 GMT

You told me to start writing my own music again.

I don't think I've ever written so much music in such a short space of time, at least since my college days.

The irony is that I'm doing it for completely different reasons than what I imagined it to be.

And they cancelled the concert

David — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:06:49 GMT

My eyes are green
'Cause I eat a lot of vegetables
It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

***

I'm insecure
But I can't help it
My mind says move on
My heart lags behind

So what

David — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:11:38 GMT

Opportunity?

This week could end up being either the best, or the worst, week of my music career so far.

Posted by David at April 2, 2012 6:13 PM

It pretty much was a good week. Probably deserves a proper blog post.

But in the grand scheme of things, do all these things even matter

Where do we go from here

David — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:13:48 GMT

Stop thinking about it. Stop thinking. Stop.

That road

David — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:24:13 GMT

It's the same, tired old story again

Know your ladder

David — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:27:03 GMT

Well, that's it then, I guess I played all my cards again

Opportunity?

David — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:13:08 GMT

This week could end up being either the best, or the worst, week of my music career so far.

Expectations, reality, hope.

David — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:07:39 GMT

Hope creates expectations, and makes you ignore reality. It creates this bubble that keeps on growing and growing. Bubbles don't last.

Should it matter to me? At the end of the day, I'm eating alone anyway.

Yes it should matter, because I've talked about bubbles before.

Why should I talk to you first?

David — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:46:52 GMT

One of the funnier things I've heard from the newer people in college is that there's a story going round that 'David Ling is intimidating'. Well, if you are a new student, I would suppose that the onus is on you to come up and talk to me. Call it unfriendly, but I tend to save my friendliness for people who show some of theirs to me first.

Poetic nonsense

David — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:49:15 GMT

Was going through some of my older blog posts (2009-2010) for fun. Wow, what a whole lot of emotionally-charged ramblings haha.

I guess now, after 6 months of being a 'freelance musician' and reflecting on the lessons learned along the way, I see the truth in the saying "less is more".

But then, just because I don't write about it doesn't necessarily mean that I feel any different about the things in my life. And boy, some things don't really change much, no matter how hard you try to forget the past.

This time, subtlety is key. As well as patience. Unfortunately, both are in short supply.

Still crazy

David — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:33:47 GMT

Still one of my favourites.

Someone else

David — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:40:19 GMT

Everyone at some point has been told to "Go to school, study hard, enter a good college/university, get a good job, work hard, and one day you'll be rich!"

But how on earth do you become rich, when you spend your whole life working for someone else? At the end of the day, I have a feeling that someone else is going to be much more well-off compared to you.

Wouldn't it be nice to be that someone else. Do you want to work hard for money, or have money work for you?

This (kinda) sucks

David — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:38:27 GMT

Just finished two wedding gigs and a corporate function back-to-back this weekend, and already I feel so deadened and uninspired.

Ironically, I actually made a lot of money. And at least the corporate function had a good buffet spread.

Bah, I get a free buffet lunch every Sunday anyway.

It IS about the money.

David — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:59:35 GMT

I guess what I really want is to have the freedom to play the gigs that I only really want to play, and not to have to do a wedding gig/corporate function ever again in my life. Or sequence/arrange a boring, cheesy minus-one. Or basically doing any music-related job just for the money. It really drains you in the long run. i didn't get into the music industry to end up doing just this.

This could all change, if everything goes according to plan. Ironically, it is something not musically related that I'm counting on to save me from this nonsense. But I believe in this plan. Now all that remains is to see where it takes us all.

Meanwhile...

David — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:00:59 GMT

Wow I just realized I haven't written anything here in awhile. I've been busy moving in to my new place (bye bye Heritage! Even though I miss you slightly), and only just got an internet connection today. I'll probably put up some nice pictures when I'm done.

Working

David — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:13:05 GMT

I'm beginning to think that the three most important things I need to know when getting work offers (demos, arrangements, sequences etc) are:

1. How much are you paying me (duh)

2. When do you need it back? (so I can see exactly how much time I have to procrastinate)

3. Is your deadline final or relative? (because I will almost definitely put it off, unless of course you're offering me some serious money)

***

I realize that it is a risk putting this up on my blog, what with everyone being connected to the internet and employers/clients checking up on their workforce etc etc. Therefore, if there are any potential employers/clients reading this, please chill out and don't take this too seriously. For the record, no matter how last-minute I am I kinda manage to pull it off in the end.

Seriously.

Drop me an email and I'll send you some samples of my work.

(Sneaky way of looking for work)

Keep it moving

David — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:49:31 GMT

So yeah, I finally finished four years of music college last month.

I know I want to blog about it, the whole experience. I also know that now, I feel terribly lazy.

And in between all the late-night Counter-Strike at WCG, late-night sequencing and score-writing (paid) work, late-night suppers after gigs, and late-night movie sessions (Unifi is win! But TM sucks, one more blog post about that), my sleep cycle invariably gets pushed farther and farther back.

What's new, you ask? Well this time, without any major deadlines looming over my head, I can afford to watch, with half-hearted interest, my sleep cycle invariably getting pushed farther and farther back.