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Monday, December 30, 2013
A quick almost-new-year update.
Back full time at the yurt....currently18 below outside, 70 inside...and I’ve just written another new song. May be a good one...and really different chords/progressions from my norm (when I’m doing regular verse/chorus music). Lyrics already clambering their way onto paper. I forgot how artistically prolific I can be when I am not romantically bonded (or proactively seeking to be) and not actively engaged in working 50+ hours a week to make other people wealthy...and I’m sure the aversion to being outside in the tundra adds to that. Time, focus and vital energy being channeled into my work...I have my old flow back. It feels good.
I set myself the challenge of recording 24 songs between now and the coming spring/summer (and maybe another album’s worth with my acoustic duo), and I have 8 of them completed and another 10 or so in various stages of production, so I’m at least 50% there. At least. Then I very well may take my acoustic and a sackful of songs on the road next winter...as much as I’ve enjoyed the challenge of finding ways to not freeze in my glorified tent, I think that house concerts and coffee houses in the warm states may be a pragmatic alternate.
Aside from that, I am looking at doing more radio and audio programs for a friend in CA, much more Off-Grid John videos, and trying to find other ways to be "value-added".
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Cry of the Lonely - Jack Fitzpatrick and John Ludi
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Site updates and such.
Hey...
Just a note to let people know that I have greatly scaled down the John Ludi site. I decided to just go with a free hosting package as I really don't see the point in paying to allow for free downloading of my music anymore. If I can find some free way of storing them online for easy download, I'll do it...but it's not high on my list of priorities right now. My last 4 albums are on my YouTube channel...and I'll probably put some of the other ones up there one of these days.
As for the fate of the Off-Grid John project...not sure. As the economic collapse seems to be always just around the corner and I need to think about making money while money still is the way we buy things in this wacky world of ours, I probably should start thinking about making some again. As the area where Tickville is located is not exactly a wellspring of economic opportunity, I am currently looking at Madison or SE MI for such (for very different reasons, respectively). I have proven to myself that I can live off-grid quite admirably if/when needed and I will be hanging onto the property as a "doomstead", but I MAY be looking at a different pre-collapse location (hanging in Tickville is always a cheap and relaxing alternative to trying to live a "normal" life, if I just want to continue that lifestyle).
Another factor is the strong desire to put a band together again. A small (but loud) one. A three-piece, probably. It's probably just the musicians version of a mid-life crises, but I want to scream into a microphone again with very loud sounds emanating from speakers all around me. I miss it...it was incredibly cathartic and I just can't do that acoustically. The Kickapoo Valley area is not a good place for such as it seems that a banjo has to be involved in one way or another, and that's just not how I roll...as much as I do like that particular instrument when played by people who actually know what they are doing.
So...to summarize...I am currently in a state of flux right now and I am trying to decide which tine of the fork in the road I should follow. Fortunately I have the flexibility to make such choices right now...unlike a lot of people I know who are caught in the vise-like grid of a rapidly-evaporating wealth pool and have few options. (Which is another factor: I can't really be of service to anyone if I go broke.)
I will post another update when I know what I am doing.
Just a note to let people know that I have greatly scaled down the John Ludi site. I decided to just go with a free hosting package as I really don't see the point in paying to allow for free downloading of my music anymore. If I can find some free way of storing them online for easy download, I'll do it...but it's not high on my list of priorities right now. My last 4 albums are on my YouTube channel...and I'll probably put some of the other ones up there one of these days.
As for the fate of the Off-Grid John project...not sure. As the economic collapse seems to be always just around the corner and I need to think about making money while money still is the way we buy things in this wacky world of ours, I probably should start thinking about making some again. As the area where Tickville is located is not exactly a wellspring of economic opportunity, I am currently looking at Madison or SE MI for such (for very different reasons, respectively). I have proven to myself that I can live off-grid quite admirably if/when needed and I will be hanging onto the property as a "doomstead", but I MAY be looking at a different pre-collapse location (hanging in Tickville is always a cheap and relaxing alternative to trying to live a "normal" life, if I just want to continue that lifestyle).
Another factor is the strong desire to put a band together again. A small (but loud) one. A three-piece, probably. It's probably just the musicians version of a mid-life crises, but I want to scream into a microphone again with very loud sounds emanating from speakers all around me. I miss it...it was incredibly cathartic and I just can't do that acoustically. The Kickapoo Valley area is not a good place for such as it seems that a banjo has to be involved in one way or another, and that's just not how I roll...as much as I do like that particular instrument when played by people who actually know what they are doing.
So...to summarize...I am currently in a state of flux right now and I am trying to decide which tine of the fork in the road I should follow. Fortunately I have the flexibility to make such choices right now...unlike a lot of people I know who are caught in the vise-like grid of a rapidly-evaporating wealth pool and have few options. (Which is another factor: I can't really be of service to anyone if I go broke.)
I will post another update when I know what I am doing.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
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