Visitors galore, and only small explorations so far—I need to start just driving my moped around all day; just looking. Yesterday my brother and Johanna were in town. We went and saw 13 Conversations About One Thing, which I liked. It’s a dialog driven drama about the lives of various people all in search of happiness, and (almost) all failing. Sounds depressing, but I didn’t come away from it that way.
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Yesterday I picked up the latest issue of Punk Planet. This issue centers on Chicago, so I was doubly interested. It’s always been published here, but there’s never been a focus or theme dealing with the city. I’m continually surprised by the depth and intelligence of that magazine. It’s a far cry from the bad interviews with bad bands loop that most long running zines are stuck in. In fact, as the years go on (this is their 50th issue) they are covering more non – music related topics, and talking more about level headed political ideas. I’ve read nearly the entire issue this afternoon.
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Dan, Miguel and Dave rode mopeds to Chicago to visit about a week and a half ago. As crazy as that sounds, they made it and back without any significant break downs or problems, save some severely sun – burnt skin. It’s currently longest Moped Army trip ever. It was awesome.
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No job yet, for Meredith or I. She’s been hunting like mad every day with lots of resume’s and interviews; but no call backs. I’ve been doing freelance work still, so I haven’t been concerned with it much. I might stick with freelance for a while; it depends on how things go. I might have even gotten a raise from Copper; I’ll know next week.
On a different note, I realized today that for the last year I’ve only been doing “safe” work. This is really troubling to me. I’ve gotten a lot done, but it’s been personal projects with little to no external accountability, or freelance work that has fallen into my lap. I need to branch out into unfamiliar territory, maybe with collaborators who hold me responsible for my time and output. I need to find some new clients that have high expectations. I’d like to do visual work that is directly critiqued by the end user and client, not just me making something function according to a pre – described specification. In short, I need to push my self creatively, not rest on my laurels and get caught up in all theory and no output.
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