Scobra and I moved from LA up to Seattle in order to finish our LP and have the space and time to build up the live show to new levels of WOW. To move to a new city is never particularly easy, but thus far, it has been an enlivening and enriching move. I am also happy to report that we now have two new members of RTB for our live shows. Erin Boyt is dancing, or should I say, moving so beautifully and creatively that she is breathing art unto herself. And then we have Andrew McInnis, who is our drummer, and general savant of all things creative and cool. So the new blood is of good stock, and is enriching the whole band and vision.
For myself, this has been a pretty crazy transition mostly due to the fact that I myself grew up in Seattle. This is where much of my family is, as well as much of my history. There are the obvious pros and cons that I have discovered about returning to such things. But all in all, I actually believe that it is strengthening me, forging me in some pretty hot coals, but i'm growing sharper by the day.
I've got to be honest, on one hand, I feel like I am gaining great clarity in what I value. But by the same token, I am also realizing that I have no idea where I am going. I know where I would like to go, but I have started to realize that living in the future or the past is a waste of the present. And so I try to be tactical and concise with my current actions, so that they may feed what I hope to be future actions. But like I said, I don't know where I'll be in 6 months, let alone a year. And when I think about how crazy and sped up the past has been, I'm not sure that I could rightly say where I'll be two weeks from now. But I'm also getting better at not worrying...
I am also working on becoming more disciplined with myself again. I am a rather cyclical creature, this I know, and this I must respect. But I think that it is time for me to become a hard-ass with myself again, and I suppose that one of the tests of this will be if I can actually maintain regular posts on this blog for once... Which I have threatened to do before... But now will be a second or third round of reckoning as far as that goes.
All in all, if I write any more, I will be rambling - so in theory you will hear more soon.
x0 - Dion
