Oh sweet, another nobody and his "opinions"

     If you're reading this, chances are you already know me and are just here to indulge my already implacable ego.  I decided recently that if I'm ever going to go beyond just paying lip-service to the concept of improving myself, I would need to keep some kind of visible record of my attempts to do shit.  Could I have chosen a better name for this than "The Gray Woods"? Probably.  It sounds like somewhere Robert Smith and Ian Curtis would meet for a lunch date.

     I have a crapload of interests, more than any reasonable human being could develop in the average lifetime.  I like to write, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you already knew that, since you're reading a blog I'm writing.  I like to make music, and if you've ever seen me or a picture of me, the stereotype-recognizing part of your brain would kick in and you would also immediately know that. 

 

I don't know...think this guy got lost and is trying to find a ride back to the 60's?

     I really enjoy animation, to the point where you might start to feel the embarrassment I should but clearly don't.  The problem with me being so into animation is that drawing is a skill I never really took the time to develop.  Seriously, I've produced drawings in art classes that were so bad the teacher laughed and walked away.  I know I said at the start of this paragraph that I had sooooo many interests, but for the purposes of this blog I want to focus on those three.  Sorry if I got your hopes up.

     My biggest problem with developing skills (like drawing) is that I have this tendency to do a little work, and when I see the tiniest bit of improvement, I get all smug and it's job-well-done time, wherein I am extremely easy to distract with cartoons and video games.  So, I figured that if I start posting things I'm working on for all to see, maybe shame will motivate me to actually keep it up.  "Hey Nick, how's that blog going?" you might sarcastically ask.  "Been cranking out those words like some kind of wordsmith? Not laying around all goddam day playing Minecraft?" No, dick, I've been playing Mount and Blade, obviously.

     I know that five ENTIRE paragraphs isn't really that much of a start to a blog.  Hopefully as I get better at this, I'll be able to express with my full capabilities, instead of living in correctional facilities.  Some people may not agree with how I do this, but I'll talk straight and meditate like a Buddhist.  Anyhoozles, I'm going to leave you with a demo recording of a song I've been working on with my buddy-pal Benny Ben "The Cole-Dawg" Coleman; we've been working on it intermittently for a while now, and it was going swimmingly until we got to the part where we record the singing.  Ben and I aren't what you'd call singers, but we have moxie.  While we hope moxie is enough to pay the bills, enjoy the part that we actually have recorded.  It's called Huckleberry Jam, and we are called....WEDNESDAY MEAT