New Year’s Resolutions

I’ll keep it fairly simple:

1.  Finish at least two movies
2.  Play more guitar

Why did I pick number 2??  I started playing guitar close to thirty years ago, and ever since my gigging days went away (five years ago?  Six??), the old axe has been collecting a fine layer of dust in the closet.  I’m a person who hates hates HATES seeing things go to waste, and the guitar sitting around, unused, represents a colossal waste of time, blood, sweat, and tears.  It’s also embarassing when I do pull the guitar out to record soundtracks and I have to struggle thru simple little riffs that I would’ve blazed through with the greatest of ease a few short years ago.  Therefore, since I don’t want a blood vessel to rupture in my head every time I think about it, I decided to pull my guitar out of its case and start playing again.  The first couple of forays have not been encouraging, but I plan on hammering away at it til I stop looking like an idiot.  Might be awhile.

Normally, I tend to avoid making New Year’s resolutions because the exercise is usually a waste of time.  New Year’s tends to be the dumping ground for those make-myself-a-better-person ideas that apparently weren’t worth considering the other 364 days of the past year.  We all say we’d like to lose those twenty pounds, or call the kids more often, or quit smoking, or whatever, but the fact is most of us haven’t even given it any thought until we gaze at the clock, notice it’s ten o’clock in the evening of December 31st… and completely flip out.  “Oh my GOD!!!!  I need to think of a resolution right NOW NOW NOW NOW… hmmmm… thinking thinking think… you know I’ve always wanted to start going to the gym again - SAAAAY!!!  That’s sounds GREAT! I’ll do it!!  THAT is my resolution for the year ____!  Yay for me!!!!”

Yeah.  There goes one well-thought-out plan.  No possibility of failure there.

Oops, I forgot to mention, at ten o’clock you were on your third shot of tequilia, which is three more than you’ve had all of last year, so the elevator isn’t anywhere near the top floor (more likely it’s dangling by one frayed cable while you heave your guts out).

I’m feeling pretty good about my resolutions… well, the first one for sure, mainly because I resolved to finish these movies three months ago, so it should be immune from the normal post-New-Year’s letdown.  The second one should be okay, too because I realize the alternative is an aneurysm for me.  That would suck…

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.  If perchance a couple of music MP3s appear on Goofy Graffix, you’ll know things are doing fiiiiiine…………