1.17

Got noticed by an artist on YouTube that I really enjoy. That's pretty schweet! Shoutout Abe's Fables!

It was under a video about building community for more "oddball" artists. I went through the comments and was able to find some pretty cool music!

Was up at 1 AM making some noisey guitar shiz! The best work comes from sleep deprivation.

1.16

Feeling the artistic dread that is wanting to drop music but lowkey hating streaming services. I put a full post on it in my index. I want to start putting more music out there, but do I do so by succumbing to the literal demon that is Spotify?

I'm also trying to figure out how I want to promote my music, as I don't have Instagram. I hadn't used my TikTok account in a year, and then I deleted it as I found no use in it anymore. I've talked with a friend about Tumblr. I know it's porntopia, but I also like how you can carve your own niche in a place like that. Right now, any promo I have is word-of-mouth. I may start doing physical printing in spaces too, as I've seen friends/local artists do so in music shops and venues.

Maybe even do some shiz here on Flounder, going over my creative process n all that. Idk would anyone read that?

1.15

Started going back to the gym this week. This one dude complimented my SpongeBob shirt. Thank you to that guy :)

1.14

Friend Time was nice yesterday :) went to House of India and had some Shrimp Vindaloo. It was very yummy yes.

Before that, I was walking around Half Price Books and found this book on Tourism in California. Granted, the information was circa the 90s, but there was a charm to how the book played with color and fonts. I wish books kept on looking like that. There's just a look to 90s/2000s books. Idk, maybe that's nostalgia speaking.

1.13

I get to see friends today. It make me happy :D

I've also felt more inspired songwriting-wise. Been putting demo ideas together to see how they mesh.

1.12

I want to start using this as a digital journal for thouts throughout the week. I notice that I use my notebook journal more for specific feelings and rambling about my being and philosophicals. I've been trying to truly reset this January 26. I just recently graduated from college and now feel the sweet embrace of unemployment. I've put my application at different venues tho, so we'll see how that goes. I'm trying to spend less time focusing on whether I'm productive and more on taking each day as it is. Meditation has helped with that, and I'm about to start fasting for these next three weeks. It's a way I go with truly starting new in the year.

I'm also spending more time with people. It feels weird knowing that I won't be starting back up in the next semester. I truly have to put in time to go out with friends instead of just seeing them in the halls of academia. It's something that I can be anxious about. I get intrusive thoughts that I'm not doing enough to have friends, but I'm trying to communicate with people more to combat such.

On a less sentimental note, I just got into this artsy pop duo called Haute and Freddy. Holy Shit, they are fire.