I have the roots already done for my next album, and I really like where it’s going, but I have hit a fairly significant brick wall and can’t seem to progress. I have always been scared that slowing down and destroying momentum will cause me to regress to my fat 2005 form, but I don’t think that is the case because I will have to let that happen. But currently, I need to refocus on other aspects of life that I have neglected the last year and a half. I can’t even seem to intelligently blog right now.

I need experience to spawn creativity, and my stores of creativity seem to be exhausted. That is not surprising considering my life has consisted of working, working out, and writing music while half-heartidly attempting a social life, that frankly due to having excellent friends, can continue without trying. However, when I do hang out with my friends, I get this guilt that I am not working on music because I feel I have a finite time because at 27, I am already over the hill and need to get my stuff out now. I seem to forget that I don’t do pop music, so that doesn’t really matter.

Therefore, I am going musically AWOL for a little while. The goals I laid out for this year are going to be modified. I am not going to finish another album by summer.

I am going to have fun and enjoy the next few months. I am going to start dating again, and I am going to not be so work oriented for a while. I know that once I get into this, my ideas will begin to spring up again, and I will become a human being again. I am looking forward to the next couple of months.

It is odd how living life with blinders on seems to make you forget why you set off on the journey in the first place. The blinders are coming off, and it’s time to start looking around again. Inspiration will return when I remember that I am alive and have feelings. My last album was full of feeling because I was processing the last three years of life. I am going to live life now, and I will tell you about it not only is subsequent blogs, but in future music. Life will cure my burnout, and break the block.