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/ JUNE 2007
+ JUNE 28th, 2007
NOW PLAYING:
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Howdy friendly
kittens! How have you been? It's been long enough that writing
this feels strange. Hell, just about everything feels strange these
days. I've been done the new record for a month and just haven't
been able to get into a headspace or pace that feels normal.
Basically, I think I'm stuck in kind of a major post-project limbo.
I've decided it's because, even though the CD and work is done, I need to
hold the finished project in my hand. I need to smell the plastic,
look at the pictures and set a gin & tonic on top of it and move on.
A burnt CD-R with "Scott Cooper New Record" in black Sharpie is
just not providing me with the closure I need. I still feel that
waiting until the fall is the right thing to do, I just didn't anticipate
the crazies that accompany all this waiting.
So as of Monday, my album landed at the manufacturing plant. Only
1.5 months early, but whatever. That doesn't necessarily mean you
get them early now, it just means I do! Heheheh. I fully
anticipate the required mental kick-in-the-ass and closure will arrive
when the boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of freshly minted CD's do.
Then my friends, it's game on! Or, as they say in Mexico.....oh
wait, I don't know what they would say in Mexico.
Much Love & Stuff;
COOP
+ JUNE 6th, 2007
NOW PLAYING:
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
Somehow,
I found myself a little ahead of things this morning -- a little early.
Yeah, I realize that's the 7th sign of the apocalypse. So with my extra
time, I grabbed a nice cup of beans (sorry, coffee), and hung out in my
usual little park thing to enjoy the morning sun for a while.
I saw a guy come into the park with a
couple of dogs, excited for their morning walk. On one leash was a
humongous rotweiler that had to weigh at least 140lbs. It seriously looked
like a small black bear, it was huge. On the other leash was a tiny toy
poodle kinda thing, I don't know what you call them...it was small and
obnoxious yappy looking thing.
Anyhow, dude gets a few feet into
the park and the rotweiler and poodle decide to start wrestling around
with each other. They get underfoot of the guy, wrapping leashes around
his legs, complete chaos....the man is really struggling to get untangled
and regain control of his two dogs. Within 20 seconds they've completely knotted up the
guy, the rotweiler makes a sudden dash and pulls the man's feet right out
from underneath him. He lands down on his side, hard. Overcome, he drops
the leashes and the dogs take off. Energized with their new freedom,
they
continue their one-sided battle, wrestling and running all over the park.
The man finally catches up and grabs a hold of both leashes, but the
rotweiler is still determined to wrestle with the poodle. So again, he's
yanked over and knocked on the ground. He swears loudly with this fall.
If he had two similarly sized
dogs, even if they were two 140lbs ones, he wouldn't have had any
problems. He could have used the same amount of force on either side, and
controlled the dogs. But he had to wail on the leash to reign in the
rotweiler,
but had to be careful with the other hand as to not yank too hard and hurt
the little poodle guy. Unable to manage, he bore the brunt of it.
I'm telling you this because as I
sat (and laughed my ass off), I realized that we all have similar,
unbalanced situations in our life. Great,
forceful weights like mortgages and debts and Jobs-We-Hate and struggle to manage
while clinging onto our passions, ideas, and dreams in the other
hand. These lighter but equally important things that coax and tease, reminding us that they're here and
desperately need our attention too. You can't pull too hard on the wrong
hand or you'll
hurt it. However, if you don't reign the other one in with all your might,
you're gonna lose the battle and land on your ass.
I don't know how to do this yet, but the one thing I know is that the
balance is key. Balance is always key, idn't it? Whether you want to REDUCE the stresses and weight
of the heavier things in your life, making them feel lighter simply by
making them matter less. Reduce your hours at work, pay off your car
(or if possible, get rid of it!), be happier with what you've already got
- not doing so is usually what leads to all those debts and obligations in
the first place.
Or maybe you spend all your FREE time doing things that really mean
something. Fulfilling activities that inspire and resonate within
you. Doing only the things that are a part of who you are so that it
seems as though you're carrying an equal amount of weight (as those pesky
heavy things). You steer your work and your needs around the ability
to maintain important stuff, which magically makes the heavy lifting your
"regular" life requires feel a whole lot lighter and easier to manage.
When the soul is fed, weight really is no object.
And oh yeah, poo-poo, pee-pee...nipples, butts, cornflakes and nuts!
Much Love & Stuff,
COOP
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