Hungry For Something

I Need A Vacation.

I came to this realization last night after a particularly effective editing/remix session on a String Theory cut that's been in gestation for close to 2 years now. It's gotten to the point where I cannot hear the song as anything but the collection of its parts, and trying to figure out where and how to cut/boost/edit/filter it is nearly impossible. Somehow Nate and I managed to get the arrangement nailed and a very good first cut at a final mix, so the end of the tunnel is in sight.

Which brings me to the vacation. I need to escape this city, if only for a week or so. I'm in the middle of so many tunnels right now, some of which have more light at the end than others. If I can get thru them all I'm going to reward myself with a vacation to someplace warm and sunny without buildings or desks or feuding co-workers or salty footprints all over the floor.

After the editing session, I was winding down by watching some late night PBS, and one of my favorite up-too-late shows, Rick Steves Travels In Europe, came on. He was travelling through France, and something about the shots of big old chateaus with woods and fields around them hit me deep down and I almost started crying from all the stress of everything going on in my life, and wanted so bad to just teleport myself through the television screen into old Europe and leave all this crap behind for somebody else to deal with it.

Years since my last vacation: 3, as of April.

Posted by Josh at February 4, 2004 12:44 PM