craig campbell

Things On My Mind
April 8, 2008 at 1:36 am

I would say that three months passing probably means it is time for me to update this thing. I don't know why my fingers frequently forget to fashion fantastic phrases. There was a time a few months back where I wrote five songs over the course of one week. Three months later it appears this was just some anomaly in the course of my being and regrettably will not be repeated any time in the near future. I have become so focused on work that I have not really had time to spend playing music which is bad in itself, but also bad in the sense that I have become so focused on other areas that I have almost lost touch with music.

My band is at work recording our new album. It is coming along pretty well, and I think it will turn out quite awesome when all is said and done. I am proud of it, but at the same time, these songs were written so long ago and most of them not by me so I don't feel a real strong connection with the music. They are great songs and I enjoy playing them, but I want to do something that is really meaningful to me.

I just bought the book, "Here, There, and Everywhere", by Geoff Emerick. This man was 18 years old when he was asked to be The Beatles lead recording engineer. He was also the reason for so much of their studio experimentation in the later years. Many of the recording practices today that we take for granted were invented by him. This wasn't all an accident, of course. Geoff Emerick is coming to speak in New York City this coming Thursday, and I am going to be attending. I am very excited about this; hopefully it will teach me quite a bit.

School has become somewhat of an afterthought for me which is fine because I am basically done. Cello lessons are useful, and my Electronic Music Performance class is also quite interesting. I just don't know how I feel about being done. There is so much more I feel like I could have/should have done while I was in school, but I mean I can always go to grad school I suppose.

Each of my friends has no idea about his/her future at this point, and I am included in that. It looks like people close to me could be moving as far away as India, and I don't want to leave New York at least not yet. This leaves me in a pretty strange position. I have a potential internship at a company where my friend works, and I'm hopeful that that could transform into a full time job after the summmer is over. I also have work that I am doing currently that I would love to continue. I suppose I am lucky to have a skill in something that is so desireable in this day and age. I just feel so unsure about a lot of things, but I suppose that is normal at this time in my life.

In other news, I am graduating from NYU with honors according to a letter I received from the president of the university, John Sexton. That means I get to wear something special on my graduation cap I think.

Well that was quite a bit of writing. Took me thirty minutes to tie these thoughts together. Maybe I can try to make an effort to do this more often.

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