Once upon a time, I produced music. And to toot my own horn very much, I started getting pretty good. I was diving deep into mixing and mastering to really clean up the mixes of my songs, and my songs were growing in complexity as I learned.

I was fucking king at programming drums.

Then shit hit the fan with one of my projects, life took a turn at one of my jobs, and I was left in What the Fuck Am I Doing With My Life mode, where all my energy went to making sure my bills were paid and out the window went the music. It was a major bummer.

Now, I once again have all the tools to produce, but I haven’t touched them. I keep dreaming returning to writing music, but all of my creative juices are being spent elsewhere, as I learn to navigate the business owner life. Marketing and budgeting and developing, oh my! If the work doesn’t exhaust me, dealing with my day to day failure does. Maybe one day I’ll have tye business on lock to run itself and can divert some of that energy back to creating music. But for now, I feel stuck.

Anyway, here’s a poster of the oh-so-pretty @meixime from her set Green Velvet: