Australia Day is one of my favourite moments in the entire year. it's incredibly difficult for all of my close friends to get together in one place and at a single time, though Australia Day provides a super fun platform for this as my Townsville and Brisbane uni friends meet half way and come home to Mackay to join those that are still living there.
i've been following Triple J less and less religiously since i was about 14, so my Hottest 100 voting shortlist only consists of around 15-25 songs these days.
this year, my vote involved the following 10 songs from 2011:
Ball Park Music - all i want is you
Cold War Kids - royal blue
James Blake - the wilhelm scream
Jay-Z + Kanye West - Otis {ft. Otis Redding}
The Jungle Giants - Mr polite
Lana Del Rey - video games
Little Dragon - ritual union
Metronomy - the look
Mr Little Jeans - the suburbs
Theophilus London - why even try {ft. Sara Quin}
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there is a quote that i've been loving for about 6 months now. it's really relevant to where i am at in my life at the moment.
super strange - it popped up on two different blogs that i follow within the last week:
'nobody tell this to people who are beginners. i wish someone had told me.
all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. but there is this gap. for the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. it's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not.
but your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. and your taste is why your work disappoints you. a lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. most people i know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.
we know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. we all go through this.
and if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta known that it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.
put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. it's only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
and i took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone i've ever met. it's going to take a while. it's normal to take a while. you've just gotta fight your way through.'
- Ira Glass
i've been following Triple J less and less religiously since i was about 14, so my Hottest 100 voting shortlist only consists of around 15-25 songs these days.
this year, my vote involved the following 10 songs from 2011:
Ball Park Music - all i want is you
Cold War Kids - royal blue
James Blake - the wilhelm scream
Jay-Z + Kanye West - Otis {ft. Otis Redding}
The Jungle Giants - Mr polite
Lana Del Rey - video games
Little Dragon - ritual union
Metronomy - the look
Mr Little Jeans - the suburbs
Theophilus London - why even try {ft. Sara Quin}
XXXXXXXX
there is a quote that i've been loving for about 6 months now. it's really relevant to where i am at in my life at the moment.
super strange - it popped up on two different blogs that i follow within the last week:
'nobody tell this to people who are beginners. i wish someone had told me.
all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. but there is this gap. for the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. it's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not.
but your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. and your taste is why your work disappoints you. a lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. most people i know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.
we know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. we all go through this.
and if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta known that it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.
put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. it's only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
and i took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone i've ever met. it's going to take a while. it's normal to take a while. you've just gotta fight your way through.'
- Ira Glass
quote = brilliant, thankyou for sharing
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