3 Years...

On July 1, 2008, I celebrated my 3 year anniversary working on the East Coast. It's hard to believe I'm starting my 4th year. It's the longest (since leaving high school) I've been in the same place. Everything is great here, but sometimes I do get the itch of wanderlust again. I'm spending the Independence Day holiday (appropriately so) figuring out where I am in my life.

So far, this summer has been unexpectedly great. I didn't think it was going to be awful, I just didn't know what to expect. Usually, I'm set to attend about a dozen or more weddings. I guess I'm finally hitting the age from where all my friends are getting married to where all my friends are having kids. That being the case, there's a lot less traveling this summer as far as cross-country and international trips are concerned. Maybe that's why I'm itching to get away. Anyway, this summer Nick and I have been subcontracted out from BEL.com to take care of audio for national acts coming through a beach venue called "The Bottle and Cork". This has been a nice quasi-getaway from the corporate settings work usually brings. This summer we're essentially taking care of rock shows with brief breaks of the corporate work. It's just like when Nick and I did audio for Rock Class in college at Greenville. For those of you who don't know what Rock Class was, it'd take too long to explain.

I love the rock show scene...music takes over and people let loose the problems and stresses from the rest of their days. Being around all this music has really been kicking me into writing again. I think I'm half done with enough songs for multiple albums! Now I just need to spend some time sorting out the details and shaking out the chaff. After that, I guess it'd be time to record demos and send them out to various producers I've got lined up. That's right, this time there'll be a production team. The last album was incredibly personal and to an extent, the next one will be too, but I want it to be more fun and hold a broader tone. So far, there is only one ballad! And that was written for my little god-daughter Lyla...

In the midst of my thoughts of travel, my buddy Jeb sent over this video and it only fueled my fire to hop a plane...it's really inspiring and quite practical...it just reminds me that we do what makes us alive, the rest will fall into place:


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

So now, it's time to sleep while I have the chance and figure out where I belong in this gigantic maze of the world and life. Goodnight friends...
-Rod