Brandon's Blog

10/10/2006

Dumb Ba Dee Dumb Dumb

Honestly, I had the title already written before knowing what I was going to write, so I’ll talk about Cluster.

Definitely crazy.  I have my central ideas already down, and I’m hoping to flesh out a full story this weekend, during some (in my point of view) well-deserved downtime, despite the fairly low-velocity nature of my studies as of recently.

I have been caught a few times needing to take care of a week’s worth of work in a day or two.  While this has obvious downstream benefits, I think it erodes the burnout resistance a bit.

In fact, being able to get through a week’s worth of work in a day is a bit suggestive of the engagement some of these duties require.

It’s a little frustrating.  BNL comes to mind: “I wish I could step from this scaffold, onto soft green pastures, shopping malls, …”  I guess that sounds pretty stupid if you haven’t heard the song.  Whatever.

To affirm Josh’s Pandora comment, it does feel a little ADD with regards to maintaining a genre match.  I had some nice Zeppelin/Scorpions/Black Sabbath/etc. stuff going.  It started playing emo shortly thereafter, and continued on that way consistently.

I think that their licensing is contingent upon selling fairly new artists to music enthusiasts, so such is life.