John B. Flushing gets personal for a moment.
Well, due to some recent restructuring to the organization I had been with for quite some time, I found myself unemployed for the first time in my life this week, since I entered the work force 16 years ago. Some of you may think, oh great, another post about some poor chap losing his job and going online to whine about it. Well it’s actually the opposite! I’ve accepted it and actually very excited about pursuing something different. I accepted my last job with the intention of only being there temporarily while I got back on my feet after up and moving to a new city. The job continued, I had the opportunity to play in a punk rock band for a while, then go back and finish my degree and finally walk across that stage and hold up the paper that showed I had finally earned my BS. I fished off the company pier and reeled in the awesome person I married, and now I’m ready for a greater challenge. I’ve met a handful of great people, experienced alot, and have grown both personally and professionally over the years. I won’t lie and say that getting laid off doesn’t sting a little, but it’s not the end of the world. You just have to keep your head up, think positive, and give your ego a little pep talk enough to raise your confidence level and get back out there. Surround yourself with good people, do good things, and good things will happen. I’m not the first one to be laid off and won’t be the last one, just keep moving forward, do your best work, and live well. I’ve learned what I will do better and what I’ll do differently moving forward.
I’ve been doing some side work for an Internet Media company handling a good chunk of their SEO accounts and now I’ll be focusing all my efforts on growing that aspect with the owner of the company. I have also spent quality leisure time learning how to build out custom wordpress themes and improving my SEO game.
Last night I probably got the best night’s sleep I’ve had in 8 months and tonight I can’t seem to go to bed. Some things never change.
JBF
Opportunities are knocking!
I guess I’m done being lazy for a while. Like the old cliche goes, when it rains it pours. Some how over the past few weeks I have managed to record, go to two NHL games, spend a couple hours with some old friends, take my wife out to numerous dinners and got a call about a potential opportunity that would be really awesome if it pans out. I don’t know if it will happen or not, but I do know that if it does my life is going to kick high gear quickly. My wife is on board and if it happens, we’re prepared to take on the stress for a couple months. If this deal doesn’t happen, I’m content with that too…and I will try and make something else happen. My head is as clear as it has been in a long time and I’m lining everything because I feel something great is about to happen. It’s a great feeling. I just don’t know what it is yet.
MTV Skins (US) Review by John B. Flushing
The US version of the popular UK show Skins debuted on MTV a couple days ago. I watched it and it sucked. The actors were horrible, the story line was poorly executed, and it makes no sense to me whatsoever why the creators would create a bastardized version of their own production. The story line doesn’t translate culturally and I’m sticking to the original and I hope this version fails miserably.
Love,
JBF-
Marching to the beat of my own drum.
I have been slowly accumulating what I need to successfully be able to complete the Cesspools demo that I have been working on for some time. Because of my living situation and lack of rehearsal space, I will be tracking the demo using a Roland TD-4 that I’m planning on purchasing soon. I have played a number of electronic drum kits lately and the only other one that I was partial to was the Yamaha DTX550K, but the holiday pricing on the Roland TD-4s sealed the deal for me financially.
I chose to record it this way because I’m living in a townhouse and don’t want to draw attention to myself or piss the neighbors off. I have always been against using electronic drums up until this point. The drums sounds I will be using sound great and by putting down the tracks this way, it will have a natural sound and style. It’s been a while since I have had the luxury of playing drums and love how therapeutic it feels after a good session.
A few new records I’ve heard and liked recently are the new Cee-Lo Brown, Stephen Egerton (Descendents guitarist solo record), the new Social Distortion single out on iTunes this week, and Dr. Dre’s new single Kush (feat. Akon and Snoop Dogg).
Check em out!
JBF
