Monthly Retrospectives

Goals Met: ~100% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): No Problems - Ginger Root - Indie Pop/Funk Super busy month, it’s only now in August I feel that I have some free time. How did I do with last month’s goals? Personal Proposal to my lady Result: A I proposed to Laura and she said yes! It was terrifying, emotional, and beautiful. Here’s how it went down: Laura and I came to the realization that we’d need to get married to really move to America and to let her have any freedom there. Otherwise she’d be chained to a company or not able to work. ...

Goals Met: ~90% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Strange Overtones - Brian Eno, David Byrne - New Wave Really was another party month. I haven’t had a weekend to myself in June, and may was also being out a lot. Been a bit stressful with all the obligations and I just want to sit inside and work on music / side projects, but the todos keep adding up. I am having fun though. ...

Goals Met: ~80% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Brakhage - Stereolab - Alternative May was both a really fun and stressful month. There’s so much friend activities going on as the Berlin summer opens up. Before I got everything done, I had a similar overwhelming anxiety I had last month. I basically had too much to do and not enough time for everything. I always felt guilty when I wasn’t working. ...

Goals Met: ~90% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): HOT TO GO! - Chappell Roan - Girl Power Pop April and May are great months in Berlin. A good portion of the public holidays are crammed into these 2 months. I’ve definitely been taking advantage of that, but I probably could have been a bit more productive. I’ve had this strange and chronic anxiousness the last week or 2. It’s an anxiousness that I find I’m prone to. ...

Goals Met: ~80% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Dragonborn - Jeremy Soule - Skyrim Soundtrack For the second year in a row I’ve missed the February retrospective. Totally fell through the cracks some how. I guess I’ll use my goals from January here. How did I do with last month’s goals? Music - Solo Project | Band Project Finish 1 SE.CORP song Result: F I have around 5 50-75% finished songs, which have actually been fun to make. But I just need to set aside a weekend when we’ve finished modergator to get really finish them. Side Projects Have Modergator shipped. Results: B Modergator was shipped, although not in Feb but in March. I’m happy with the product, but we really don’t have anyone using it yet. Still have some main stuff to build before we aim to shut it by the end of next month (hopefully) if it doesn’t work. Our release was basically to nobody, see this post. That hurts. ...

Goals Met: ~90% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Picarón - Mexican Indie Time flies. Each retrospective I’ve completed marks a month of my life, I can see in the files here that they are really starting to pile up. How did I do with last month’s goals? Music - Solo Project | Band Project Prepare for the CORP. release show Results: A Our release show went spectacularly. It took up a good bit of my mental space for the first 3 weeks of Jan. The anticipation and coordination were always on my mind. ...

Goals Met: ~80% Song Of The Year (listen while reading!): New Tricks - Petite League - Indie Pop How did I do with last year’s goals? 🟡 Kill SkinTheory or get it off my mind completely. Results: A The wheels are in motion, SkinTheory as an Inc. is officially no more. I haven’t thought about it much. SkinTheory the app is still alive, and kind of just sitting there in a holding pattern until I want to come back to it, or apple/google make a change to the app store. ...

Goals Met: ~60% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Romeo - Sures - Indie Pop Planned for this, but wasn’t able to get much done between being in the US, catching up with friends, and being in Ireland for Xmas. How did I do with last month’s goals? Music - Solo Project | Band Project Plan (Marketing / Performance) for Berghain release show Result: C+ Hashed out the basic idea for the performance with Josh but I need to really set the performance stuff in stone. Marketing has been pretty minimal. ...

Goals Met: ~70% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan - Pop Last month I was a bit too ambitious in my goal setting. I spent the last week of the month on holiday in the US, so I was unable to work on anything productive there. Before I left, I ended up being pretty busy as well. How did I do with last month’s goals? Music - Solo Project | Band Project Put together a 3 song set to film with SE.CORP Result: A+ Put together 3 songs and played them for a mates little web show thing. ...

Goals Met: ~90% Song Of The Month (listen while reading!): Boy Toy - STRFKR - Synth Pop October was interesting. I actually got the bulk of my goals completed within the first 2 weeks. But I’m tired of seeing people and parties. I didn’t get a lot of time for head space or extra curricular work. I’ve also been sick for like 3 weeks. How did I do with last month’s goals? Work None ...