Random thoughts, feelings, musings, experiences and other random stuff
Part of being a good producer is about balance. Its about balancing the needs of the client and the welfare of the team, balancing budgets against chargeable time, balancing creative vision with realistically achievable results. And when things become unbalanced it’s the producers job to re-balance them. But one of the trickiest things about this balance, and something I learned
Following on from my previous post about DIY culture in music, I’ve started a real nostalgia trip by rewatching a few of my favourite music videos from back in the day. And it got me thinking about how much impact these videos had on me, especially in light of MTV closing down it’s 24 hour music channels back in October
I’ve been doing a lot of inspirational reading over the holiday period, essentially a lot of stuff about the DIY Punk Rock ethos of the early ’80s and the growth of independent record labels, (e.g. Beastie Boys Book, Our Band Could Be Your Life, DIY or Die! etc…) and it’s really got me thinking about the state of the arts
Those of you who know me may already know this (or at least guess) but i’m a hopeless romantic. I am. And one of my not-so-secret passions is rom-coms, or to be specific quirky rom-coms… but i’ll come back to why that’s important in a bit. So you would imagine, would you not, that this time of year is a
Over the last month I have been going through something akin to the Kübler-Ross model, often referred to as the five stages, of grief. What’s strange about this is, not only has this model been widely criticised as “empirically unsupported”, and wholly inaccurate, its not something I actually went through when I lost my dad nearly a year ago. Perhaps
It’s been five days now since the final episode of The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One, and i’m still shook. What a phenomenal piece of television that was (and i’m sure it showed in the viewing figures).
For a number of reasons, too tedious or irrelevant to go into right now, I’ve decided to start chronicling my periodic random thoughts in a Journal – this is the first.
